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...
LMI has realigned executive responsibilities across its leadership team as Josh Wilson officially assumes the role of CEO, a transition that took effect Jan. 1. LMI announced Thursday the changes include Christen Smith’s appointment as chief revenue officer, Chrissy Cocrane’s move into the role of senior vice president of health and civi...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded 340 companies positions under the potential 10-year, $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, multiple-award contract vehicle, expanding the pool to more than 2,400 awardees. SAIC, one of the latest additions to the SHIELD pool, is a major sponsor of the Potomac Offi...
Parsons has acquired Altamira Technologies for approximately $375 million as part of efforts to expand its signals intelligence, missile warning, cyber and space capabilities for the Department of War and U.S. intelligence community customers. Parsons said Tuesday Altamira’s more than 600 employees, over 90 percent of whom hold security cleara...
