The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started a program that aims to make microelectronic technology more resistant to the effects of radiation in a space environment by implementing a testing system for 3D heterogeneously integrated chips. DARPA said Thursday the Advanced Sources for Single-event Effects Radiation Testing effort will pu...
Geospatial data analytics company HawkEye 360 has raised $59 million in a Series D-1 funding round and intends to use the new capital for space system development and defense mission support expansion. The financing activity was led by investment firm BlackRock, with the additional backing of seven other companies, HawkEye 360 said Thursday. Ma...
The Swift Group, a Reston, Virginia-based IT services provider, has acquired OPS Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Holton Yost, president and CEO of Swift, said in a statement released Thursday the acquisition will help the company to execute its long-term g...
Linda Zecher, chairman of technology investment firm C5 Capital and a former executive at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed CEO of IronNet (NYSE: IRNT). She succeeds former IronNet CEO Keith Alexander, who will transition to the role of non-executive chairman, in a move resulting from the cybersecurity company’s take-private deal wi...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $282.6 million contract to modernize the Rolling Airframe Missile, a ship self-defense capability, for the U.S. Navy and three foreign military customers. The award from Naval Sea Systems Command covers design agent and engineering support to the MK 31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program, the Depa...
Richard Bonnett, vice president of engineering at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has been promoted to chief technology officer within the company’s unmanned systems business, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. He joined the California-based national security and communications technology maker in 2018 after a 21-year c...
The European Commission has approved Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) proposed $61 billion acquisition of multicloud services provider VMware (NYSE: VMW) following the completion of an in-depth review. Broadcom said Tuesday the two companies believe combining their operations would not hamper cloud market competition and could provide enterprise cust...
The Department of Energy plans to extend its existing contract with Washington River Protection Solutions for another two years to manage tank waste at DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The planned contract extension will kick off on Oct. 1, 2023, and run through the end of September 2025, and covers base operations, tank retrieval...
Kathryn Simpson, vice president and associate general counsel of the mission systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to corporate VP and general counsel in a move that takes effect Oct. 30. She will take over the responsibility of overseeing Northrop’s legal affairs from the retiring Sheila Cheston and will report dir...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) will provide the Defense Threat Reduction Agency with vulnerability assessment and other support services under a potential five-year, $170 million task order. The company said Wednesday it was also tasked with assisting the operational programs of DTRA’s Nuclear Enterprise Directorate in addition to performing analyses, design...
