OpenGov, a provider of cloud enterprise resource planning software for state and local government agencies, has acquired software company ProcureNow for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its portfolio of offerings. San Francisco-based ProcureNow is a small business providing software-as-a-service offerings meant to help agencies streaml...
Private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management has acquired Austin Brockenbrough &d Associates to create a new engineering and consulting business that will serve public and private sector customers. Richmond, Virginia-based Brockenbrough and Prime Engineering, a portfolio company of Godspeed Capital, will merge into a new entity called Prime A...
A joint venture between Aerodyne Industries and KBR Wyle Services has secured a potential five-year, $531 million contract to perform systems engineering work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Aerodyne-SGT Engineering Services, also known as ASES, will help the agency develop, test and maintain ground and spacelight systems as...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has promoted 19-year company veteran Kevin “Red” Smith to succeed Orlando “OJ” Sanchez as vice president of its F-22 program. Smith will oversee efforts to develop, produce and maintain systems for the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 aircraft fleet in his position, Lockheed said Tuesday. Prior to this appointment, he ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $578 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to manufacture 14 extended-range Chinook helicopters for the British air force. The company said Tuesday it aims to deliver H-47 heavy-lift aircraft units to the U.K. starting in 2026 under the foreign military sales contract and that country will be the...
Dennis Freeman, a Department of Defense veteran, has joined Mission Secure as a technical adviser within the cybersecurity company’s government and defense business. He brings decades of military and civilian service experience to his new position and will help Mission Secure execute its operational technology cybersecurity strategy for govern...
Pacific Defense has established an advisory board in an effort to inform the aerospace technology company’s decision-making processes and expand its customer reach, and has named former Department of Defense leaders David Norquist and Alan Shaffer as anchor members. Norquist, Shaffer and other board members will bring in their industry experie...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced key appointments as the technology company moves to establish two business units and restructure its data platform group into two groups – datacenter and artificial intelligence and network and edge. Greg Lavender, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at VMware (NYSE: VMW)...
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has acquired AlphaWave, an Austin, Texas-based cloud security technology startup, for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand its portfolio of attack surface management platforms. “AlphaWave’s cloud-native foundation enables them to clearly understand the nuances of managing one’s attack surface across the cloud and...
This past Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 2021 CMMC Forum to provide the government contracting (GovCon) and federal sector’s members his overview and vision of the CMMC Rollout as well as the top priorities for the board and how industry feedback will help to improve the vision behind how the organization develops for the...
