Private equity firm Sagewind Capital has invested in Federal Advisory Partners, a management consulting company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Federal Advisory Partners is the New York-based investment company’s fifth platform within the government services market and primarily offers strategic, advisory and analytics support to federal...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected Jacobs (NYSE:J) to support the NGA’s geospatial data services under a seven-year, $302 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will provide mission-driven and data-centric tools to support the agency’s Geospatial-intelligence Enterprise OpenDataStore. “Jacobs will provi...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services subsidiary has named Stephanie O’Sullivan, a U.S. intelligence community veteran and previous Wash100 awardee, as the newest member of its board of managers. “Her expertise within the intelligence community will help us continue to invest in and deliver services that meet the government’s ...
SAP Concur has received a sole-source contract worth potentially $374.35 million from the Defense Human Resources Activity to produce and deploy a travel-as-a-service platform for the Department of Defense. The company will build the web-based MyTravel system with a subscription pricing model for DOD personnel to book trips and manage travel-relate...
Patrick Shanahan, former deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and senior vice president at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has joined the board of directors of Zanite Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ZNTEU) as an independent Class III director. The special purpose acquisition company said Wednesday Shanahan, a previous Wash100 awardee, will become a member of...
KeyLogic has officially launched as a fully integrated company after years of acquisitions and strategic investments to further build up its capabilities to support clients’ missions in the energy, defense, federal civilian and commerce sectors. KeyLogic emerges from the combination of KeyLogic Systems, Information International Associates, R2...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Bolstering Climate Resilience for National Security Forum on Tuesday to bring together the members of the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry to explore the national security implications of climate change and how data analytics can inform agencies’ climate adaptation strategies. Senio...
On Tuesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Bolstering Climate Resilience for National Security Forum featuring Dr. Erwin Villiger of LMI, Dr. Kathleen White from the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dr. Terence Thompson of the Climate Service as panelists during a full discussion exploring the implications of climate c...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) has agreed to acquire exactEarth in a cash-and-stock transaction worth approximately $161.2 million to further expand its geographic footprint and increase its space-based maritime dataset. The transaction has been approved by the boards of Spire and exactEarth and is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of calend...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has agreed to purchase Centennial, Colorado-based space electronics supplier SEAKR Engineering for an undisclosed sum. Raytheon said Tuesday it will integrate SEAKR into the Waltham, Massachusetts-headquartered company’s intelligence and space business once the deal is closed. SEAKR employs over 540 workers in...
