Spectral Energies has won an eight-year, $184.3 million contract to conduct studies for the turbine engine division under the Air Force Research Laboratory’s aerospace systems directorate. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the company will aim to advance propulsion technology for DOD platforms through the Innovative Combustion and Propu...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has agreed to buy cyber threat analysis and research company Miburo for an undisclosed sum as the technology giant aims to help public and private sector organizations respond to foreign information operations. Tom Burt, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s customer security and trust organization, wrote in a blog e...
Henry Dubois, chief development officer at BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY) since August 2021, has been appointed to serve as chief financial officer of the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered geospatial intelligence provider. He succeeds Johan Broekhuysen, who resigned from the CFO post and will remain with BlackSky until Aug. 11 to help facilitate the...
Karman Space & Defense, a portfolio company of Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital, has acquired the patented MG Resin family of technologies from Cornerstone Research Group to expand its competencies and capabilities in integrated composite systems for defense and space applications. CRG’s senior leadership team developed the MG fa...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has secured an $866.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to manufacture updated ship-based ballistic missile interceptors for the U.S. government and the Japanese defense ministry. The sole-source award covers the production of Standard Missile-3 Block IIA systems, whic...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will support the production of a long-range precision missile under a $450 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force. The contractor was tasked to work on development, integration, sustainment and other efforts related to the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile program over a five-...
The venture capital arm of Washington, D.C.-based technology accelerator Dcode has invested in two startups to help both companies commercialize their software platforms for the federal government. Dcode Capital participated in a Series B financing round that brought in $25 million for UrbanFootprint and took part in a separate funding activity for ...
Digital services company Ad Hoc has acquired Cascades Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its technological capabilities in support of federal agency customers. “Today, we’re taking another step toward expanding what we can offer the federal government so that we can have an even larger impact on how the government...
Bill Sheehy, Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle program manager at BAE Systems, said the company has been building AMPVs for the U.S. Army at full-rate production levels in the past four months and plans to further speed up production but would need to invest in the expansion of its assembly line and machinery, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....
Shelley Mitchell, a 30-year defense and aerospace industry veteran, has joined immersive training systems provider C2 Technologies as senior vice president and general manager. In this role, she manages strategic growth initiatives, customer focus and corporate operations and oversees several programs, including Air University Leading Inclusively Vi...
