Ursa Major raised $138 million at the close of its Series D and D-1 funding rounds. Explorer 1 Fund and Eclipse led the investor group that includes RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) investment arm, BlackRock-managed funds and accounts, Exor Ventures, Mack & Co. and other institutional shareholders. With the fresh funds, the independent rocket propulsion ...
Chantilly, Virginia-based government technology company Arcfield has finalized its purchase of Orion Space Solutions as part of efforts to expand its space exploration and hypersonic detection and tracking capabilities in support of intelligence community and Department of Defense agency customers. Established in 2005, Colorado-based Orion is focuse...
ManTech has secured a five-year, $261 million contract to provide mission information technology, intelligent systems engineering and cyber support services to the U.S. Air Force. The contract covers weapon systems engineering and integration, mission support center services, specialized software testing and support, electronic warfare software prog...
The U.S. Army has awarded nine companies positions on a potential five-year, $245 million contract for environmental remediation services. The Army Corps of Engineers conducted an online solicitation and received 10 offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The service will obligate funds and determine wo...
Jason Galindo, a more than two-decade U.S. Army veteran, has been promoted to vice president of the aviation systems business unit at Axient‘s defense systems segment. He will oversee Axient’s aviation contract portfolio that covers customers including the Army PEO Aviation and the Air Force Special Operations Force Fixed and Rotary Wing...
Cybersecurity firm BlueVoyant purchased Conquest Cyber, a company specializing in software-as-a-service, to expand its product and service portfolio. The consolidation of the two companies is expected to address a shortfall in products for comprehensive information technology risk assessment, validation and mitigation, BlueVoyant CEO James Rosenthal...
LightRidge Solutions has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of technology leaders Skip Williams and Jim Congdon as chief technology officer and chief software officer, respectively. The portfolio company of private equity firm ATL Partners was established in March to design, develop and deliver small space and airborne sensors and pay...
Funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners have bought T2S Solutions, a provider of research and development, prototyping, engineering, integration and technology products in support of defense, intelligence and government programs. Tim Jahnigen, co-founder and chief growth officer of T2S, said in a statement published Wednesday, “With MD...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center plans to release a request for proposals for the fourth iteration of a contract to procure services to facilitate analytical and physical processing activities in support of cargo requirements. Cargo Mission Contract 4 has a potential ceiling value of $100 million and will cover engineering, maintenance and operations s...
LMI will help the U.S. Postal Service manage enterprise-wide programs and projects under a potential eight-year, $670 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Enterprise Program Services contract covers strategic and tactical support on USPS projects that aim to boost customer service, productivity, performance, product developm...
