Rosslyn, Virginia-based onboard data company Shift5 has secured $33 million in additional funding for its Series B round led by Moore Strategic Ventures. The additional financing brings the Series B round to $83 million and comes as the company reports growth in its revenue, platform deployments and number of customers across the Department of Defen...
Denver-based York Space Systems has acquired Emergent Space Technologies in a transaction that expands the former’s software development and mission design services for the government sector. Laurel, Maryland-based Emergent is a small business focused on developing software and guidance, navigation and control systems for military, civil and c...
Trish Eknes, former vice president of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, has transitioned to a new role as VP and deputy operations manager of enterprise and cyber solutions portfolio at the Reston, Virginia-based government contractor, Forum reported Wednesday. She oversees efforts to deliver information technology and cyber services to the...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business has secured a $2 billion contract modification for lot 17 F-35 aircraft engine manufacturing services in support of U.S. and international defense customers. The award from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command will fund the procurement of propulsion system materials, pa...
SpaceX has secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide Starlink satellite communications terminals and services for Ukraine’s military, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The Pentagon will likely acquire the satcom terminals through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. “We continue to work with a range of global partne...
Valiant has booked a potential $1.4 billion task order to provide linguist and translation services to military personnel throughout the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility. Two U.S. Army commands jointly issued the task order, which includes supplementary support work in the continental U.S., under the Department of Defense Language...
The U.S. Army has selected 29 small businesses to compete for information management communication service orders under a five-year, $900 million contract vehicle. Army Contracting Command received 31 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online-based solicitation, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. IMCS providers will suppor...
Particularly in the age of artificial intelligence, data is one of the most valuable assets. Personal information is being used by large private sector companies to fuel targeted advertising content, but in the military and defense realm, data is decidedly more serious, a variable at play in the global power struggle. New AI systems that...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet When an executive from a government contracting firm reaches out to me, seeking ideas about how they can distinguish themselves from the crowd to win more project business, oftentimes I’ll point them to the practice of earned value management and the systems that support it. EVM...
BAE Systems and four other companies will compete for waterborne surface shaft repair projects under a U.S. Navy contract worth $162 million over five years. The service branch officially awarded six positions on the multiple-award contract vehicle to include BAE’s ship repair businesses in Virginia and California, according to a Department of...
