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FAA chooses 4 for $1.4B air traffic control support contract

Each awardee is assigned certain geographic areas and each award has a different ceiling value.

SixGen purchases software development specialist

SixGen has now completed three acquisitions in six months with the support of its private equity owner Washington Harbour Partners.

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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.

Aechelon lands Sagewind's backing

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

General Dynamics IT secures $330M in Army training awards

The company will help train 500,000 soldiers across Pacific and Airborne Corps missions by using advanced simulation environments.

Inversion closes $44M Series A round

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm is one of a handful of investors in this company looking to further enable autonomous delivery and re-entry from space.

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.

DOD reveals first draft of $15B artificial intelligence contract

The Defense Department wants more companies in the fold for Advana, a multi-domain analytics and AI platform that DOD wants to further scale out.

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.

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.

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.

CoreStack enters federal market through acquisition

Karthhik Consulting's team of 125 employees provide cloud security and compliance offerings to federal agencies, a new set of customers for CoreStack whose primary clients have been in financial services and health care.

Booz Allen's venture arm invests in deepfake prevention company

Booz Allen Ventures is one of several investors in Reality Defender, which uses artificial intelligence tools to spot deepfakes and other synthetic media.

CACI details the tech and talent legs of its strategy

Investor day presentations like this newest one from CACI are an opportunity to go deeper into a company's strategy. Here are some main takeaways from two key portions of the event.

ManTech hires pair of intelligence business execs

Gavin Greene will focus on business development and Joseph Schneider will run program operations.

AeroVironment builds out defense tech portfolio with BlueHalo acquisition

The combination creates a larger player in uncrewed systems, technologies to counter them and space offerings.

How LMI incubated its own generative AI tool before going to market

LIGER emerged out of the company's technology studio and while data scientists built it, the grander goal was for everyone to use it.