Brooke Smith, former vice president of business development and strategy at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named CEO of Deep Water Point & Associates. He succeeds Howard Seeger, Deep Water Point’s founder who has led the federal management consulting services provider for nearly 19 years, the company said Monday. While at Salesforce, Smi...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured an $81 million contract modification to continue supporting a joint initiative between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force to build a hypersonic air-breathing weapon system. The modification brings the total cumulative value of the company’s HAWC contract from $272 million to $...
Mike Cosgrave, a former partner at Guidehouse, was appointed chief operating officer at Tria Federal, where he will oversee the information technology and advisory services provider’s administrative and operational functions. The management and technology executive with 25 years of experience previously held the same position at IT and service...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will continue providing the U.S. Navy with AN/SQQ-89A (V) 15 anti-submarine warfare systems, spares and support services under a $100 million contract modification. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business was contracted for work on Hypervisor Technology Zero AN/SQQ-89A ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started a program that aims to make microelectronic technology more resistant to the effects of radiation in a space environment by implementing a testing system for 3D heterogeneously integrated chips. DARPA said Thursday the Advanced Sources for Single-event Effects Radiation Testing effort will pu...
Geospatial data analytics company HawkEye 360 has raised $59 million in a Series D-1 funding round and intends to use the new capital for space system development and defense mission support expansion. The financing activity was led by investment firm BlackRock, with the additional backing of seven other companies, HawkEye 360 said Thursday. Ma...
The Swift Group, a Reston, Virginia-based IT services provider, has acquired OPS Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Holton Yost, president and CEO of Swift, said in a statement released Thursday the acquisition will help the company to execute its long-term g...
Linda Zecher, chairman of technology investment firm C5 Capital and a former executive at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed CEO of IronNet (NYSE: IRNT). She succeeds former IronNet CEO Keith Alexander, who will transition to the role of non-executive chairman, in a move resulting from the cybersecurity company’s take-private deal wi...
Mission1st Group has acquired Ardent Management Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand information technology service offerings for the Department of Defense and federal civilian agency customers. Ardent, an Amazon Web Services consulting partner, specializes in data analytics and location intelligence support to public sector clients, Mission1...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will continue to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency migrate enterprise information technology workloads to a multicloud environment under a five-year, $84 million contract. HII said Tuesday subcontractors on the recompeted work are AgileBeat, Ampsight, Compass and GIT-G. The teammem...
