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York Space Systems to acquire solar cell maker

Solestial specializes in making ultrathin, radiation-hardened solar cells and modules that have some self-healing capability.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Anduril hauls in $5B for Series H round

The autonomous tech specialist recorded $2.2 billion in revenue for 2025 and doubled its workforce.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Star Catcher closes $65M Series A round for space grid strategy

The company is working on technology that can wirelessly transfer electricity to satellites and other spacecraft.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cowboy Space, Darkhive detail their Series B rounds

Science Applications International Corp. and the venture capital arm of RTX are the GovCon investor names to take note of here.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How Lyntris centers its tech on 'left of bang'

CEO Brian Morrison explains to us the rationale behind the merger to create Lyntris and why it chose to be a merchant supplier in today's landscape, which is replete with talk of quick development and fielding.

  • By Ross Wilkers

HawkEye 360's public offering hauls in $416M

Add this commercial satellite operator to the list of GovCon companies that achieved their initial goals by tapping into the public markets for new capital.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Astranis, Scout Space lay out next steps following capital rounds

Satellites and the technologies that help them safely maneuver in space feature in this summary of new venture capital activity.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NextPoint Group acquires fellow software development provider

This represents NextPoint Group's first purchase with the backing of its private equity owner Godspeed Capital Management.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Scout AI fetches $100M in Series A capital

The two-year-old company labels its flagship product as an "AI brain" and outs Booz Allen Hamilton's venture arm as a backer.

  • By Ross Wilkers

York Space Systems to acquire terminal maker in $355M transaction

This is York Space Systems' second agreement to buy another company since its $629 million initial public offering in January.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Firestorm Labs wraps up $82M Series B round

Washington Harbour Partners, the venture arms of Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin, and the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel organization are staying involved in the maker of portable drone manufacturing systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

True Anomaly fetches $650M in Series D round

The four-year-old space startup closes a new capital raise on the heels of its selection for a key Golden Dome-related contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers

HawkEye 360 launches IPO roadshow, sets goals for listing

The 11-year-old commercial satellite operator is now officially at work in marketing its stock to potential institutional investors.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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CACI opens up more on its Arka acquisition and the path forward

In talking with Wall Street, CACI CEO John Mengucci gives an example of where Arka's agentic artificial intelligence tech is in use today and its potential moving forward.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DOD completes $1B investment in L3Harris missile solutions unit

L3Harris Technologies is keeping an 80% stake in the solid rocket motor production business, which is becoming a public company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Fortem receives new Lockheed backing, Reliable Robotics completes Series B raise

Autonomous flight and supporting technologies to help avoid accidents is a common thread in both of these investment rounds.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AEVEX fetches $320M in IPO proceeds

AEVEX is the latest government contractor to tap into the public markets amid renewed investor interest in the defense industry.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos sheds security screening unit in agreement with Analogic

The transaction moves 1,500 employees and $625 million in revenue to the Altaris-owned imaging tech company.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Citra, Turion detail their newest capital raises

Washington Harbour Partners led the Series A and B rounds for these startups focused on space, which is a priority area for the investment firm.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed boosts its venture investment fund to $1B

Lockheed Martin Ventures' core focus areas include quantum computing, autonomy, directed energy and computer chips.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Public offerings put GovCon in a new spotlight as SpaceX's listing looms

Think the recent run of initial public offerings over the past 16 months were big? Get ready for SpaceX to break all-time records, and its IPO is one all of GovCon should care about, even if your company does not launch anything at all.

  • By Ross Wilkers