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OMB draft memo sets agency and vendor quantum security standards

The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a new memorandum to outline steps for the federal government’s migration to a post-quantum cryptographic standard.

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Firefly files for initial public offering

The eight-year-old maker of launch vehicles and other spacecraft gives a deeper look at its business for the first time, as is required before the listing completes.

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Sales, defense and tech leadership roles across the market

Plus one company in the upper quadrant of our 2025 Top 100 realigns its executive reporting tree upon a major departure and a second hires an executive to steer Golden Dome pursuits.

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Pentagon to become rare earth mining company's largest stockholder

The Defense Department will buy a 15% stake in MP Materials and fund the construction of a magnet-making facility, all with an eye toward breaking the U.S.' reliance on China for rare earths.

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Workday launches government subsidiary

The web-based human capital software company set up this unit, led by Lynn Martin, to tailor its operations to the needs of federal agencies.

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Client Solution Architects promotes Blue to CEO

CSA's strategy in the government market largely digital solutions and operational support work.

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Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise expands deployment at Lawrence Livermore

Lawrence Livermore National Lab will be able to use Claude to wrangle large datasets, generate scientific hypotheses and more. 

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Corsha adds Booz Allen's venture arm as an investor

The seven-year-old cybersecurity company touts the Air Force as user of its machine identity products that work to detect unusual patterns on networks involving operational technology.

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Beyond reseller pacts: How government contractors are building strategic tech partnerships

New alliances involving Accenture, Palantir, Science Applications International Corp. and ServiceNow reflect a broader industry shift in how commercial innovation is delivered to federal agencies.

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Saalex acquires avionics software specialist

Saalex has gradually moved eastward through acquisitions like this one and a move of its corporate headquarters from Southern California.

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B&A acquires Hexagon Federal’s defense, intelligence portfolio

The transaction gives B&A access to more contract vehicles and geospatial expertise.

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Boeing's new defense leader and more leadership moves across the market

Major hires and promotions involving operations, corporate development and human resources functions also feature.

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Trump nominates Ryan Cote to serve as VA’s new IT chief

Cote previously served as the Department of Transportation’s CIO for two years during the first Trump administration.

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Maxar launching AI-powered ‘predictive intelligence’ to spot crises before they happen

New software for fusing satellite data from multiple constellations could spot big events before they pop off.

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Parsons acquires Chesapeake Technologies in $89M transaction

Parsons is looking to beef up its technology portfolio for the electromagnetic spectrum, or what CTI calls the "invisible battlefield."

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Emagine IT hires former Mitre exec as CEO

Cedric Sims joins the 23-year-old company to lead the next phase of its strategy in areas such as cyber, automation and tech architecture.

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AI companies see openings to improve federal, defense operations

Executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have both championed artificial intelligence as the future of government workflows.

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Parsons, IBM form air traffic control modernization pursuit team

The Federal Aviation Administration is eyeing 2028 to complete its replacement of the National Airspace System's underlying infrastructure.

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Established defense contractors lend tech startups a helping hand

Oracle launched a new defense ecosystem to support companies that lack the funds or infrastructure to jump right into a Pentagon contract.

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Growth and operations leadership moves across the market

The newest edition of our regular executive movement digest also features a former CISA official's new role and a pair of tech-focused hires by one of the market's largest companies.