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Barbara Humpton's next role and more leadership moves across the market

Also included in this listing: an enterprise software giant's new public sector team leader, three chief financial officer appointments and a pair of chief technology officer hires.

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Razor’s Edge tops goal for its fourth fund

With $560 million in committed capital, the venture investment firm is focused on making more national security investments.

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Auterion closes $130M Series B round to expand drone software

The company pivoted to defense after Russia invaded Ukraine and emphasizes artificial intelligence in its design of the software.

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Azimuth acquisition pays off for Core4ce

Core4ce nearly doubles its Air Force advanced photonics research contract after the 2024 transaction.

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KBR plans spinoff of government business

This new, independent publicly-traded company would hit the market by mid-to-late 2026.

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Redhorse moves Klemm up to CEO post

Klemm's two-decade career in the market covers national security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data exploitation.

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Xcelerate buys General Dynamics background investigation business

Xcelerate is pushing to become a part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative aimed at modernizing and streamlining the security clearance process.

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Aerospace Corp. promotes its next CEO from within

Tanya Pemberton will start in the role on Oct. 18 and lead a 4,800-employee organization that operates a federally-funded research-and-development center focused on space.

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Serco hires new CEO for North American business

Michael LaRouche, a 30-year industry veteran, will succeed the retiring Tom Watson on Oct. 1.

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Pentagon bans tech vendors from using China-based personnel following a ProPublica investigation

The Defense Department has tightened cybersecurity requirements for its cloud services providers. The changes come after ProPublica revealed how Microsoft’s use of China-based engineers left sensitive government

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How CASE sees custom as evergreen in software development

Some level of refactoring and engineering will always be needed to make commercial software work for agencies. Here is how this AE Industrial-backed company is looking at opportunities there.

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Salesforce launches new business unit for national security customers

Missionforce represents a “deepening” of services and relationships with defense, intelligence and aerospace agencies, according to Kendall Collins, who has been appointed CEO of Government Cloud, including the new business unit.

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Tech, finance and operations leadership moves across the market

Plus a former federal chief information officer returns to the industry she worked in as a board of directors member.

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Anthropic CEO sees 3 areas where policymakers can help with AI

Dario Amodei shared the risk mitigation areas government officials should focus on to balance AI innovation and safety in the U.S.

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Apex closes $200M Series D investment round

The three-year-old satellite and bus maker fetched the same amount in its Series C round, giving us another data point of venture interest in space.

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F5 to acquire CalypsoAI for $180M in AI security move

Lockheed Martin's arm for backing tech startups has been part of the investor network behind CalypsoAI, which designs its technology to offer a layered defense from data theft and other types of attacks.

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Army chooses 49 for $10B IT hardware recompete

The Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-4 Hardware vehicle includes 40 small businesses as awardees.

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Veritas Capital fetches $14.4B for its ninth fund

The firm initially sought to raise $13 billion for Veritas Capital Fund IX.

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IonQ launches federal business to expand cyber and defense work

The quantum tech company also named Robert Cardillo, the former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director, as executive chairman of the federal business to lead strategic operations and partnerships.