The Department of Homeland Security is planning a departmentwide cloud acquisition to centralize the procurement and management of commercial cloud services across its components. According to a new entry in DHS’s Acquisition Planning Forecast System on Tuesday, the effort—called Cumulus—will support access to commercial cloud solutions th...
Washington Harbour Partners, a private investment firm specializing in government and enterprise cyber and technology, has acquired Radome Services, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-headquartered company that maintains and repairs ground-based systems that protect satellites and communications antennas at military sites. Following the transaction, Radome...
Virtualitics announced on LinkedIn Tuesday that Craig Rosen has been appointed chief financial officer. What Will Craig Rosen Do at Virtualitics? In his new role, Rosen will lead the company’s financial planning, accounting, capital strategy, human resources, reporting and legal functions. He will collaborate with executive leadershi...
Auria, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, has acquired RKF Engineering Solutions and Kythera Space Solutions as part of a push to expand its satellite communications capabilities and portfolio of software offerings. Auria said Tuesday it expects the transaction to support the delivery of an end-to-end platform for managing the full comman...
SOSi has secured a potential $875 million contract from the Department of Justice to provide interpretation and language support services for the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, awarded by DOJ’s Justice Management Division, supports immigration court operations nationwide, accordin...
The Department of Energy has released its final request for proposals for a five-year procurement contract to provide infrastructure support services, or ISS, at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio. DOE said Wednesday it will conduct the Portsmouth ISS procurement effort as a total small business set-aside competition. According to FedConnect, ques...
Some Chinese artificial intelligence developers said China’s efforts to catch up with the U.S. in AI are being slowed by a bottleneck in access to advanced chips, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. As U.S. policy continues to shape the direction of AI at home and abroad, industry and government stakeholders are watching closely how...
Appian has secured a new enterprise agreement with the U.S. Army that expands the service’s access to artificial intelligence-powered process automation in support of its modernization efforts. How Will the Enterprise Agreement Support Army Modernization? Under the 10-year enterprise agreement, the Army can procure up to $500 million in ...
CesiumAstro, a space and defense communications systems and satellites company, has received $200 million in financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, or EXIM, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. The transaction represents the largest financing completed under EXIM’s Make More in America program and among the most substanti...
PsiQuantum has appointed foreign policy and national security leaders Stephen Biegun, Ellen Lord and Chris Miller to its government advisory board. The company said Thursday the three new members will join Bob Sharp, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, on the board and leverage their decades of experience to help PsiQuantum forge partnerships across t...
