Companies

Copper River eyes larger modernization footing via acquisition

In buying The Prospective Group, Copper River is also looking to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity and analytics offerings for federal agencies.

Companies

Data Systems Analysts promotes Foley to CEO

Fran Pierce has led DSA as chief executive since 1991 and is remaining involved as a member of its board of directors.

Companies

Shift5 hires former L3Harris exec as interim CEO

Josh Lospinoso, a co-founder and Shif5's former chief executive, is transitioning out of day-to-day duties to focus more time and energy on longer-term planning.

Contracts

State Department takes third look at Alpha Omega’s $10B Evolve protest

The department takes another corrective action after the contractor challenges its exclusion from the enterprise IT contract.

Companies

The missing middle: America’s overlooked weakness in defense innovation

Federal funding flows to research labs and prime contractors, but the companies best positioned to turn prototypes into production are starving for capital — and that's a strategic vulnerability the U.S. can't afford, writes Stephen Empedocles, CEO of Clark Street Associates.

Companies

CTC's longtime leader Ed Sheehan to retire

CTC just completed its new 10-year strategic plan to shape the nonprofit's future as an applied scientific research-and-development firm.

Companies

Northwood closes $100M Series B round, books $50M Space Force contract

This space startup co-founded by Bridgit Mendler, the former actress-turned entrepreneur, is pushing a smaller-form alternative array to traditional means as a way to scale out ground infrastructure.

Contracts

Trump’s national defense strategy is unlike anything that’s come before it

It touts an end to interventionism and regime change, despite adventurism in Venezuela and Greenland.

Companies

Lockheed Martin launches wildfire tech venture with Salesforce, PG&E and Wells Fargo

EmberPoint will combine artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and military-grade sensors to help first responders detect and suppress fires faster.

Contracts

8(a) program faces unprecedented pressure from Trump administration attacks

Defenders of the small business contracting initiative say it enables rapid procurement, can meet administration priorities and the administration is overstating fraud concerns.

Contracts

Air Force Research Lab opens proposal window for $10B vehicle

This will be the lab's central mechanism for acquiring research-and-development support on behalf of the entire Air Force.

Companies

York Space Systems eyes supplier acquisition after going public

The 14-year-old small satellite maker also gives investors details on how much stock will be available to buy and the price range for the shares.

Companies

OMB reverses Biden-era software attestation order

A new executive branch memorandum instead allows agencies to lean on software bills of materials, or SBOMs, in lieu of a universal attestation framework.

Companies

Salesforce signs $5.5B contract with the Army

The vehicle will be open to the entire Defense Department and broadens access to the company’s artificial intelligence, data and cloud technologies over the next 10 years.

Companies

Leidos' plan for revenue synergies in Entrust acquisition

Artificial intelligence tools, new markets and cross-selling are driving Leidos' business case for the $2.4 billion acquisition.

Companies

Booz Allen commits $400M to Andreessen Horowitz's late-stage fund

The government contractor and venture capital firm alike are looking to expand their networks through this capital infusion as well as a related tech partnership pact.

Companies

Treasury cancels all Booz Allen contracts

The cancellations are tied to a former Booz Allen employee, who admitted two years ago to leaking President Trump's tax information and tax data on other wealthy individuals.

Companies

Leidos makes $2.4B bet on utility infrastructure with Entrust acquisition

This will be Leidos' largest purchase since 2016 and doubles its energy business. As Leidos' homeland security unit president told us, artificial intelligence helping to drive a trillion-dollar grid modernization push as computing power needs grow.

Podcasts

WT 360: One founder’s guide for helping agencies with their tech roadmaps

Sheila Duffy, founder and chief executive of Greystones Group, goes over keys for good collaborations with customers on rolling out modern tools and seeing Small Business Innovation Research programs as a pathway to do so.

Opinion

The irrefutable connection between agency modernization and FedRAMP cloud adoption

Vendors must embrace security from day one as FedRAMP 20x and multi-cloud strategies gain momemtum, writes Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems.