Companies

Red 6 fetches $70M in Series B investment round

The five-year-old company is looking to disrupt the military pilot training domain with its augmented reality system.

Companies

In-Q-Tel details chief executive transition

The next leader of the intelligence community's venture investment arm first joined to widen the firm's technology knowledge and network of innovation hubs.

Contracts

State Department works toward electronic health record for diplomatic corps

The department leans on a paper-based system to manage health care support for 75,000 people around the world.

Opinion

Why communications needs to be part of your cyber breach response

Data breaches, unfortunately, are more a matter of when not if, so contractors and agencies need to prepare and that includes knowing what to share when you've been hacked.

Contracts

Army told to redo $475M IT services buy

The Government Accountability Office agrees with a protestor that parts of the solicitation didn't make sense.

Companies

Operations, human resources and cyber mark the week in leadership appointments

Our latest summary of recent executive promotions and hires centers on HII, V2X and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Opinion

Phil Kiviat, long-time advocate for better government, dies at age 85

He will be remembered for his work to foster closer relationships between government and industry through building trust.

Companies

iNovex further builds intelligence base with new acquisition

This is the Enlightenment Capital-backed company's second such transaction in barely as many weeks.

Companies

Fortify fetches $12.5M in capital for advanced manufacturing

The venture investment arms of two large defense companies participated in this round as they look for new ways to make products.

Contracts

Air Force chooses 3 dozen for $32B training system recompete

This is iteration number four of the Training Systems Acquisition vehicle that covers a broad range of products.

Contracts

Army awards 12 seats on $450M modernization vehicle

Awardees will work on enabling and accelerating the branch's idea of overmatch for gaining overwhelming advantages over adversaries.

Opinion

Come celebrate the 2023 Top 100 at the Big Breakdown

Don't miss our Top 100 event on June 6, where we will unveil the 2023 rankings of the market's largest contractors and hear from the CEO of one of them.

Podcasts

WT 360: Ultra I&C's gameplan for its new private equity era

Jon Rucker, president of the Ultra Intelligence & Communications business, goes over what that team has been up to since the parent company's sale to private equity firm Advent International and the strategy's main three legs.

Companies

Verizon captures $145M Postal Service contract

The telecom giant will migrate systems to a cloud environment and support contact center operations.

Opinion

Security standard revisions should not delay CMMC prep work

Companies should be ready to comply before the eventual release of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification for all firms in the defense industrial base.

Opinion

2023 should be the year of cyber resilience

Agencies need to be focused on their cybersecurity posture and a critical step is making sure that security solutions are compatible and can be integrated.

Companies

SilverEdge acquires digital design specialist

SilverEdge Government Solutions' private equity backer just completed the raise of its second fund with more capital to put to work.

Opinion

Which path will, and should, small business contracting follow?

Another new initiative to increase small business participation in federal contracting brings up the disconnect between the amounts of money and companies in the system. It's time to ask whether growing both of those numbers is possible.

Contracts

Booz Allen dinged for management plan in lost $2.5B NSA contract

The National Security Agency liked CACI International's bid for the FocusedFox cyber and intelligence contract for more reasons than just price.

Companies

Booz Allen's cloudy crystal ball for the market and AI

CEOs of publicly-traded companies everywhere are getting questions from investors on the debt ceiling crisis. This time it was Booz Allen Hamilton's leader who had to acknowledge the situation.