Podcasts

WT 360: Defense One's Sam Skove on the drone industry's vital signs

Sam Skove, who covers the Army for our partner publication Defense One, jumps in to go over the branch's push for more small drones and where the industrial base that makes them is at right now.

Companies

Autonomous tech, finance and growth leadership moves across the market

Plus a key supplier of software products to federal technology integrators and resellers promotes a new leader of that very function.

Contracts

Army unveils second solicitation for $4B in R&D recompetes

This is for the unrestricted portion of the so-called D3I2 vehicle that focuses on research work in space, high-altitude and missile defense.

Companies

Amentum's blueprint as a public company

Members of Amentum's senior executive team visited Wall Street to tell the investor community all about their company's next steps and here's what they said.

Companies

Dcode's venture arm invests in cyber company

Nucleus Security opened for business in 2019, participated in Dcode Capital's advisory program two years later and is now a portfolio company of the latter.

Companies

DOD finalizes $848.8M Red Hat software supply pact

This blanket purchase agreement is part of the Defense Department's main initiative for making consolidated buys of commercial IT products and services.

Contracts

MTSI wins $73M MDA digital engineering project

The Missile Defense Agency tasks Modern Technology Solutions Inc. to look at the creation of kill webs for defeating threats.

Companies

Defcon AI fetches $44M in seed capital

The defense tech startup is building a new toolset for military leaders to direct troop and fleet movements.

Contracts

Air Force chooses 23 for $12.5B network modernization vehicle

The Base Infrastructure Modernization program envisions a more modern network architecture involving both wired and wireless components.

Contracts

Army unveils draft for $10B software development competition

The Army has doubled the maximum number of awardees from its prior intent and shed some more light on how the downselect could work.

Companies

Intelligence, human capital and sales leadership moves across the market

One of the most prominent defense electronics and subsystem suppliers also adds to its executive team amid the ongoing turnaround push there.

Contracts

TekPro awarded $100M DOD procurement support contract

The Defense Department's administrative and management support agency sought an 8(a) firm to help in all phases of the contract lifecycle.

Companies

Redwire to buy small satellite manufacturer

Hera Technologies is active in a project run by Space Force to demonstrate on-orbit servicing.

Companies

Lockheed to acquire spacecraft maker Terran Orbital

This represents the global defense giant's first move to buy a company it first backed through its venture capital arm.

Contracts

Disappointed bidder seeks second chance at $1.9B IRS pact

The IRS received 27 bids and chose five for the blanket purchase agreement to support the office that manages the agency's IT budget and capability delivery function.

Companies

'All roads lead back' to Huntsville in SAS' expansion push

With the backing of Godspeed Capital, Special Aerospace Services is breaking ground on a new facility in Huntsville, Alabama that will shape its long-term future.

Companies

22nd Century acquires treasury software support firm

22nd Century is looking to grow its digital transformation offerings that aid government agencies in managing their financial functions.

Contracts

Protests hit OASIS+ general small business track

A total of 10 companies so far are challenging their exclusion from an award on the governmentwide professional services vehicle.

Companies

West 4th acquires IT modernization specialist

West 4th is doubling in size through this transaction approximately two years after the company itself got a new owner and leader.

Contracts

Army lets one protester back in for $10B IT product competition

A separate set of six protests remains active at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over their elimination from a place on the IT Enterprise Solutions 4 Hardware vehicle.