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Science, tech and operations leadership moves across the market

Our final roundup of key executive promotions and hires for 2024 involves a bit of foreshadowing for one company in the upper quadrant of our Top 100.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Trace3 enters federal market via acquisition

Zivaro and its 200 employees become the first building block of a new business vertical focused on government.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Sikich adds USPTO work in its newest purchase

The technology and professional services provider has prioritized federal market growth in its acquisitions over the past five years.

  • By Ross Wilkers

ServiceNow CEO says DOGE has Washington ‘inspired and fired up’

Bill McDermott believes there is genuine momentum building behind President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

  • By Frank Konkel

Ayar Labs captures $155M to bring light into chip manufacturing

Three of the world's most notable chip manufacturers and Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm are investors in Ayar Labs, which is touting light transfer as an answer to the artificial intelligence-energy quandary.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Millennium Space Systems hires Gingiss as chief executive

Owned by Boeing since 2018, the small satellite maker is entering the next phase of its production ramp-up and market expansion push.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Are AI defense firms about to eat the Pentagon?

Competitors are becoming collaborators in the industry’s hottest segment.

  • By Patrick Tucker

Core One acquires intelligence analysis provider

The now-500 employee company gains a new footing at the Defense Intelligence Agency, among other customers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Former Stanley and ECS exec George Wilson starts a third chapter with cyber-focused acquisition

The veteran tech leader takes the helm of Valiant Solutions in a strategic private equity play.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Spire Global promotes Condor to chief executive

Founder and CEO Peter Platzer has led the company for 12 years in a tenure that included its 2021 public listing.

  • By Ross Wilkers

House passes agency software licensing bill

Saving on software licensing appears to also be on the radar of the new DOGE caucus.

  • By Natalie Alms

Lockheed details executive transitions in its enterprise, engineering functions

The defense giant's famed Skunk Works advanced development division is also getting a new leader.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Edgewater appoints Ferrando as chief executive

Tom Ferrando has chaired Edgewater's board of directors for two years and led Salient CRGT through its 2021 sale to GovCIO.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Redhorse moves Klemm up to president

Current CEO John Zangardi will retire by the end of this year and continue as a member of Redhorse's board of directors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Markon buys IT consulting firm

This represents Markon's second purchase with the support of Sterling Investment Partners, which carved out the business in the summer of 2023.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Aechelon lands Sagewind's backing

Aechelon makes image and data generation systems and databases to aid in military pilot training programs.

  • By Ross Wilkers

CMS pulls the plug on $6.6B call center recompete

The incumbent Maximus filed a lawsuit after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put a labor harmony agreement into the solicitation, but CMS has essentially ended the argument.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Maximus' big watch item for 2025 is Trump 2.0

In talking with investors, Maximus CEO Bruce Caswell points to those being appointed to key positions in the second Trump administration as one big factor for the company and industry heading into 2025.

  • By Ross Wilkers

BlueHalo acquires underwater robotic tech provider

The technologies that VideoRay specializes in are also what it will bring to AeroVironment, when the latter closes its acquisition of BlueHalo.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Unanet adds AI tool through GovPro acquisition

Unanet brings in an artificial intelligence capability to its portfolio of offerings that help companies respond to solicitations.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Space, finance and talent leadership leadership moves across the market

Two of the government market's most notable publicly-traded companies also announce the newest members of their boards of directors.

  • By Ross Wilkers