Companies

Northrop Grumman partners with AI startup to revolutionize rocket design

Physics AI from Luminary Cloud is designed to bring down analysis time from hours to just seconds.

Companies

How BTS' reset positioned it for external investment

Blue Delta Capital Partners is now backing BTS Software Solutions' through the next phase of pursuing its growth pillars, including the emerging counter-unmanned aerial systems tech domain.

Companies

Voyager puts Golden Dome into focus with acquisition

Voyager has purchased a maker of electric satellite propulsion systems that enable maneuverability and velocity changes, key attributes for the future missile defense architecture.

Opinion

Congress must reauthorize and reform SBIR/STTR before it’s too late

The programs have driven breakthrough defense technologies for decades, but they need urgent reauthorization and strategic reform to counter China and eliminate waste, writes Ali Reza Manouchehri, CEO of MetroStar.

Companies

GovTech startup Darwin AI closes $15M Series A round

The company builds its artificial intelligence governance tools for agencies to navigate compliance requirements.

Companies

Federal agencies may benefit from slower cloud adoption, Cloudera CEO says

Charles Sansbury believes a "cloud hangover" has led commercial enterprises to reconsider data workload strategies, giving the government an opportunity to gather lessons learned and be "fast followers."

Companies

Textron's CEO transition and more leadership moves across the market

Three chief financial officer hires also feature in this new listing of key executive appointments.

Companies

Booz Allen cuts more jobs, lowers outlook amid funding slowdowns

“We see our civil business operating in the most challenging market in a generation,” CEO Horacio Rozanski told investors.

Podcasts

WT 360: A banker’s guide to navigating the shutdown and staying ready for the reopening

Phil Poliquin, a market executive for J.P. Morgan Commercial Banking’s government sector team, offers general guidelines for contractors on how to carry on during a period when payments from customers are frozen.

Companies

SBA probing 8(a) fraud allegations at tribal-owned contractor

ATI Government Solutions and the Susanville Indian Rancheria tribe are suspended from federal business activities pending the probe’s completion and findings.

Contracts

IRS seeks contractor to run nationwide credential program

The contract will cover credential issuance and lifecycle management at sites across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Opinion

CISA moves forward with post-quantum ‘musts’ in cyber

Government contractor need to get ahead of the new federal IT requirements around quantum or they risk being left behind, writes Morgan Hecht, a market intelligence analyst with immixGroup.

Companies

Industry groups push to keep open-source measures in annual intelligence bill

They’re backing provisions in the House version of the Intelligence Authorization Act. But multiple intelligence community elements are hesitant about the measures, people familiar say.

Companies

SAIC parts ways with CEO Toni Townes-Whitley

Board member and former Leidos CFO Jim Reagan has been named interim chief executive.

Contracts

SAP NS2 books $1B Army software contract

SAP’s National Security Services subsidiary will work with the service branch on migrating more applications and other tech assets to a cloud environment.

Companies

CACI's view of shutdowns then and now

In talking with Wall Street, CACI International CEO John Mengucci describes how selling through purchase orders is different than the last time there was a shutdown as the company makes more big bets on counter-drone tech.

Contracts

DARPA launches search for technologies to revolutionize combat casualty care

The military's research agency wants rapid sensing, artificial intelligence-driven decision support and automated interventions that can work in austere battlefield environments.

Contracts

GSA will be ‘multiplier for efficiency and modernization,’ nominee for administrator says

Edward Forst, President Trump’s nominee to lead the General Services Administration, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Thursday.

Companies

Venus Aerospace secures Lockheed's venture backing

This is the newest in a string of Lockheed Martin Ventures investments in the power and propulsion domain.