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Leonardo has made an investment in unmanned aircraft technology startup Skydweller Aero in a move to accelerate the deployment of the latter’s solar-powered drone platform.

Bluestone Investment Partners has made an investment in Intrepid Solutions and Services, a Sterling, Va.-based provider of enterprise information technology, operational training and data analysis support to intelligence community clients.

Bloomington, Minn.-based microlectronics manufacturing company SkyWater Technology is set to receive a $170M investment from the Department of Defense to expand a production facility for radiation-hardened electronic components under a multi-phase expansion project.

Veritas Capital has generated $6.5B in capital commitments for its seventh fund in support of its strategy to invest in technology-focused companies that deliver products and services to government and commercial clients.

Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) has launched a venture arm to invest in startups that leverages data to improve business and bring about social change. The company said Wednesday Splunk Ventures is composed of the $100M Innovation Fund and the $50M Social Impact Fund.

Private equity firm Silver Lake moved to extend a strategic partnership with Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) by pledging another $1B investment in the mission-critical communications platforms provider.

The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) has signed an equity investment agreement to become a majority investor in HireVue, which markets software products designed to facilitate video interviews and pre-employment assessments as part of the talent recruitment process.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 6, 2019 — Chris Bellios, chief operating officer of Hexagon US Federal, has said the geospatial and technical services company looks to build on its investments in technology areas over the next two years in order to expand its market and position its portfolio for the public safety, military and intelligence communities.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will invest $1B in San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI to create new AI supercomputing technologies on the Azure cloud platform under a multiyear partnership.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has placed a strategic investment in ABL Space Systems to help accelerate the development and testing of the latter's first launch vehicle designed for small satellite missions.