The U.S. Navy has awarded HII multiple contract modifications totaling approximately $142.9 million to support the completion of Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier. What Are the Details of the PCU John F. Kennedy Contract Modifications? The Department of Defense said Friday the...
Clinton Herget, field chief technology officer at Snyk, said the growing adoption of artificial intelligence-driven software development is highlighting the need for government agencies to integrate security directly into developers’ critical path or environment. What Is Developer Security? In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Herget desc...
Voyager Technologies has acquired Penrose, Colorado-based manufacturer of critical defense materials and compounds, Estes Energetics. How Does the Acquisition Impact the Defense Industry? Voyager said Thursday that the move expands its ability to oversee the production, certification and quality of critical energetics for national defense applicatio...
SAIC has secured a $1.4 billion COBRA task order to accelerate the modernization of systems that feed into the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control ecosystem. The five-year award tasks SAIC with rapidly developing, integrating and fielding technologies that strengthen decision superiority and operational readin...
Private equity firm McNally Capital has merged its portfolio company Quiet Professionals with Spathe Systems to create a defense technology platform aimed at expanding support for U.S. Special Operations Forces and the broader defense community. Chicago-based McNally said Thursday Quiet Professionals CEO Andy Wilson will lead the combined comp...
QinetiQ has named Brad Feldmann, a past Wash100 awardee, and John Kavanaugh to its SSA board of directors, established in 2021 under a special security agreement with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The company said Wednesday the appointments follow Tom Vecchiolla’s departure to become QinetiQ US president and CE...
Bri Frost, director of security and IT ops curriculum at Pluralsight, said government agencies can strengthen their cybersecurity posture by prioritizing continuous, targeted training and upskilling their IT teams. In an article Carahsoft published, Frost wrote that agencies face mounting challenges in assembling IT teams that can handle today’...
Xcelerate Solutions, a defense and national security company backed by McNally Capital, has added three senior executives to its leadership team. The appointments of Terry Emmert, Steve Cubarney and Jean Francois “Boodi” Blanc reinforce the company’s strategic direction and growth in the government sector, Xcele...
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a $111 million modification expanding its role in the Space Systems Command’s space-based interceptors effort, increasing the total value of MTSI’s systems engineering, integration and testing contract to $226.9 million. The work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, through Jan. 10, 2030,...
Reston, Virginia-based TekSynap has acquired technology engineering firm JBA for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to strengthen mission support for the FBI. How Does the JBA Acquisition Expand TekSynap’s Capabilities? TekSynap said Tuesday the transaction expands its footprint across the National Capital Region; Quantico, Virginia; the Cri...
