Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has opened a new facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where its teams will work to deliver missile defense capabilities and strategic deterrent systems to government and military customers. The company said Monday the new building has advanced engineering, research laboratories and software development factories, and ...
Virgin Orbit and blank check company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: NGCA) have agreed to merge that would result in the satellite launch services provider becoming a publicly traded company with an enterprise value of approximately $3.2 billion. The boards of directors of Virgin Orbit and NextGen have cleared the transaction and both parties ...
GovernmentCIO has wrapped up its acquisition of Salient CRGT as part of efforts to establish a combined company that will provide information technology platforms meant to meet the evolving priorities and needs of federal government clients. GovCIO CEO Jim Brabston will lead the combined entity, which will operate as GovCIO with over 2,200 employees...
Washington, D.C.-based Data Society has moved to grow its training academies for government and corporate professional staffers with the purchase of Restless Creation. The combined entity aims to help organizations reskill their employees using data science approaches, Data Society said Thursday. Restless Creation uses human-centered design to provi...
U.S. military branches are ramping up efforts to help the Department of Defense achieve objectives it has set for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. To enable data sharing across the different services within the agency, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a strategy document for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Dom...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug 20, 2021 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) announced an 18 percent revenue growth to $3.4 billion during the second quarter of its fiscal year 2021 and retained its $13.7 billion to $14.1 billion sales outlook for the year, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 4. Addressing investors during an earnings call, Roger Krone, chairman and...
Donna Roy, former chief operating officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has joined Guidehouse to serve as strategic adviser for the company’s national security segment. Jim Chaparro, a Guidehouse partner, announced Roy’s appointment in a LinkedIn post. Roy was appointed to the COO role at the bureau in July 2020 after her prior ro...
The National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have asked the public to comment on a plan to implement a research infrastructure that would provide artificial intelligence researchers access to computing resources, educational tools, high-quality data and user support. The National Artificial Intelligence...
New York-based private equity firm ATL Partners has purchased Geost, an Arizona-based maker of sensors that can detect and protect satellites from other spacecraft and space debris, for an undisclosed sum, Defense One reported Wednesday. ATL plans to further build up Geost through acquisitions and investments and intends to boost the company’s bud...
NASA will hold a full and open competition for the fourth iteration of a contract that provides for services and supplies in support of the space agency’s Sounding Rockets Program, a flight initiative for conducting rapid scientific experiments in space. The proposed NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract IV will cover program management and...
