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Advent creates defense photonics business in $400M acquisition
The private equity group is forming a standalone company through this carve-out transaction with Coherent Corp.
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Leidos sounds unfazed by GSA's push to centralize software buys
As Leidos CEO Tom Bell told a group of reporters, the company is "more interested in the system we can build around all of the widgets" to make technology work better for government.
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Woven Solutions gets private equity backing
The three-year-old company develops cloud-native applications to help agencies in their IT modernization and enterprise tech deployment efforts.
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Leidos takes aim at maritime autonomy
The company wants to make waves in the surface and undersea drone markets amongst startup competitors.
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V2X to acquire QinetiQ's US data, services business
This 70-employee unit provides data engineering, intelligence mission support and cyber solutions to national security agencies.
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Amentum shows part of its hand for Golden Dome and nuclear power
In talking with Wall Street, Amentum executives detail some work the company is doing today on missile defense and data center energy with an eye toward larger opportunities.
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Trilogy Federal restructures its C-level exec team
The company has elevated one founder to the chief executive post, while a chief delivery officer and chief technology officer are now part of the senior team.
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Maximus hopes its Air Force cyber win is just a starting point
In talking with Wall Street, CEO Bruce Caswell explained how the company's opportunity pipeline for defense work led it to the $77 million award.
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How CACI views DOD's push for more commercial and consolidated software buys
In talking with Wall Street, CEO John Mengucci also describes how the company's portfolio in networks is driven by work on software.
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Peraton hires SAIC, CACI vet as chief growth officer
Ravi Dankanikote will lead Peraton's enterprise growth strategy that includes its business development efforts and building of customer relationships.
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Tech, growth and operations leadership moves across the market
One global commercial software provider brings in a new U.S. public sector leader, while USPTO's now-former chief information officer heads to the private sector.
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Software holding company acquires Monster's public sector business
Monster Government Solutions gets a new owner following a bankruptcy process undertaken by its former parent company.
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Firefly captures $868M in IPO proceeds
This is the second space-focused initial public offering in as many months with both exceeding original expectations on the proceed and valuation fronts.
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Small defense industrial base firms pose tempting targets for nation-state hackers, NSA official says
Some 80% of the defense industrial base are actually small firms, according to the NSA’s head of DIB security, who has helped over 200 providers identify thousands of vulnerabilities in their systems.
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Intuitive Machines to acquire navigation software provider for $30M
The space exploration company is bringing in-house one of its partners, which has supported two flights to the moon.
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‘High-severity’ Microsoft Exchange vulnerability disclosed on heels of Black Hat talk
Parts of the federal enterprise are likely susceptible to the flaw that allows hackers to hijack on-premises versions of Active Directory. CISA plans to release an emergency directive on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Defense tech office cuts staff down to 40
The cuts to the Defense Technical Information Center are intended to refocus it on “its core statutory mission” according to a Pentagon spokesperson.
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How Guidehouse's $1.5B AI investment will bring others in too
Building out a partner ecosystem and training Guidehouse's 18,000 employees on using artificial intelligence tools are key to how the company will work with clients to adopt them.
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Leidos CEO: cost, efficiency conversations with customers are shifting
In talking with Wall Street, Tom Bell says the customer dialogue tide is turning from "simply slash-and-burn" and more toward what the longer term should look like.
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