Companies

AE Industrial Partners is the common thread in these 2 acquisitions

The private equity firm acquired York Space Systems and Firefly Aerospace within months of each other. Now both have used the PE firm's backing for their own purchases.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft unveils OpenAI service for government customers

Microsoft is opening up its commercial generative AI technology to public sector customers and partners.

  • By Frank Konkel

General Dynamics' board adds former DSCA director

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper led the Defense Security Cooperation Agency from 2017 to 2020.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Red River hires new government business leader

The IT services company was acquired by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management in 2021.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Shift5 expands its investor network

Booz Allen Hamilton's venture capital arm is among the newly-revealed names that are investing in the cyber company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How SAIC looks at artificial intelligence as part of a whole

Discussions inside federal agencies on all things AI appears to be "near a tipping point," as SAIC's CEO explained to investors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Red 6 fetches $70M in Series B investment round

The five-year-old company is looking to disrupt the military pilot training domain with its augmented reality system.

  • By Ross Wilkers

In-Q-Tel details chief executive transition

The next leader of the intelligence community's venture investment arm first joined to widen the firm's technology knowledge and network of innovation hubs.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Operations, human resources and cyber mark the week in leadership appointments

Our latest summary of recent executive promotions and hires centers on HII, V2X and Booz Allen Hamilton.

  • By Ross Wilkers

iNovex further builds intelligence base with new acquisition

This is the Enlightenment Capital-backed company's second such transaction in barely as many weeks.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Fortify fetches $12.5M in capital for advanced manufacturing

The venture investment arms of two large defense companies participated in this round as they look for new ways to make products.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Verizon captures $145M Postal Service contract

The telecom giant will migrate systems to a cloud environment and support contact center operations.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SilverEdge acquires digital design specialist

SilverEdge Government Solutions' private equity backer just completed the raise of its second fund with more capital to put to work.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Booz Allen's cloudy crystal ball for the market and AI

CEOs of publicly-traded companies everywhere are getting questions from investors on the debt ceiling crisis. This time it was Booz Allen Hamilton's leader who had to acknowledge the situation.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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NextGov, FCW to combine editorial operations

These two sibling publications of Washington Technology are merging into a single outlet as they fine tune their approach to covering the federal government.

  • By Nick Wakeman

State Department's plan to use $500M CHIPS funding to bolster the supply chain

The State Department is using its CHIPS funding to foster relations with allies, strengthen supply chains and build a robust semiconductor ecosystem.

  • By Kirsten Errick

Godspeed Capital closes second investment fund

The private equity firm plans to further expand its portfolio of companies, which already includes SilverEdge Government Solutions.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Deltek builds time-tracking offerings with new acquisition

Replicon adds 2,500 customers to Deltek's network and bolsters offerings for project-centric organizations.

  • By Nick Wakeman

BAE's US board elects former Virginia representative

Elaine Luria formerly represented the Virginia district that includes Hampton Roads, where the Navy has a significant presence.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Agile Defense purchases enterprise cyber company

This transaction represents Agile Defense's first with the backing of its owner Enlightenment Capital.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Private equity firm starts 'C5ISR' strategy with acquisition

Fregata Systems looks to make a string of acquisitions over the next three years and has hired a new CEO that formerly led Cubic Corp.'s defense business.

  • By Ross Wilkers