Stoke Space raised $100 million in new Series B investment and the latest Industrious Ventures-led round brought the reusable rocket builder’s total funding to $175 million. The funding round logged participation from the University of Michigan, Sparta Group, Long Journey, and existing investors In-Q-Tel, Breakthrough Energy, YCombinator, Poin...
Greg Burrill, 5G/networking alliance manager at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said the transition to virtualization with 5G is driving innovative developments that could enable government agencies to better manage data workloads. He wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com that major hyperscaler cloud providers are working to facilitate the ...
Every year, the Potomac Officers Club hosts the government contracting industry’s premier events featuring the most prominent and influential speakers from the public and private sectors. Now, POC is gearing up for its biggest, most exciting year yet. In 2024, POC will be hosting an exciting lineup of in-person events, including must-attend month...
The U.S. Army has started soliciting comments on a draft statement of work and related attachments for a contract to modernize the service branch’s military payroll system used to support pay generation and disbursement procedures. The service intends to award a single contract to one company to meet the Army Military Payroll requirement under...
Vincent DiFronzo, senior vice president of SAIC’s Air Force, Combatant Command and Department of Defense Agency unit, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 DOD Group. The 4×24 leadership series is the government contracting industry’s premier executive networking program. Designed to promote the sharing of ide...
Kris Chester was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at WTI, a Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider that caters to the U.S. service branches, defense and civilian agencies and other government organizations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive most recently served as WTI’s enterprise architect...
A Day & Zimmermann subsidiary will produce and deliver modular artillery charge system equipment for 155-millimeter ammunition to the U.S. Army under a $966.7 million contract. Day & Zimmermann Lone Star will manufacture, assemble, inspect, package and deliver 155 mm MACS M231/M232-series combustible cartridge cases as part of the five-year ...
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary a potential seven-year, $650 million contract to make upgrades to the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award includes a $91 million initial delivery order and a minimum guarantee contract, the Department of Defense sai...
Ed Newman, former federal sector leader at Hill International, has joined Michael Baker International as vice president of cost management. The three-decade industry veteran will oversee a companywide cost management team that manages the planning, design and development of construction and environmental projects for local and international governme...
BAE Systems has partnered with Systecon‘s U.S. arm to deploy the latter’s software suite to boost life cycle support and maintenance planning for the former’s defense portfolio. BAE Platform and Services, Combat Mission Systems will use Systecon North America’s Opus Suite life cycle management software to make data-driven de...
