Contracts

Navy starts the bidding for $500M C4ISR engineering contract

The Navy is seeking an industry partner to help manage and execute programs and sponsored projects.

Companies

Valiant hires former J&J exec Mattingly as CEO

Valiant has been owned by investment firm The GC Companies since 2017.

Companies

WT 360: Tria Federal and its pair of priority areas

Tim Borchert and Atchut Kanthamani, respectively chief executive and president of Tria Federal, join to go over the company’s push to be a more formidable midsized competitor in the health and public safety markets.

Companies

Defense industry must embrace speed and innovation, Austin says

The former defense secretary cites lessons from the war in Ukraine and warns about the risk of slow procurement and production gaps.

Companies

The Netherlands joins US Air Force’s robot wingman program

The U.S. ally also agreed to develop small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance with General Atomics.

Companies

Sev1Tech secures $49M Marine Corps task order for cyber and network operations support

The company will provide lifecycle support to the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and expand its presence in Charleston, South Carolina.

Contracts

Army to test next-gen C2 prototype for the second time since July contract award

How the service is revamping not just its command and control software, but how it develops systems in general.

Companies

Lentech appoints Einfalt as interim CEO, Dillahay steps down

Paul Dillahay is a senior executive at DigitalNet.ai, the new artificial intelligence company founded by serial entrepreneur Ken Bajaj that Lentech is also partnering with.

Contracts

Proposed FAR changes remove contractor diversity requirements, keep disability rules

The new language follows one of President Trump’s first executive orders to eliminate diversity requirements in federal contracts.

Companies

Axiom Space hires NASA, BWXT vet as CEO

Axiom Space is one of three recipients of Space Act Agreements to vie for the International Space Station replacement.

Companies

Rampart brings in Javaid as chief executive

Rampart holds 55 registered patents and designs its waveform technologies to secure content and metadata in networks.

Contracts

Judiciary Democrats launch watchdog website amid withheld funding from inspector general group

The lawmakers are maintaining hotline information for over 20 OIGs, as watchdogs scramble to set up temporary websites after the White House withheld funding from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.

Contracts

FCC initiates process to ban Hong Kong Telecom in US

The agency has previously barred China-linked communications providers from operating on American soil.

Breaking News Companies

Judge blocks shutdown layoffs after finding Trump's actions are likely illegal

The Trump administration is leveraging the shutdown to declare "the laws don't apply to them anymore," judge says, adding, "they can't do that."

Companies

CISA orders government to patch F5 products after ‘nation-state’ cyber intrusion

“This cyber threat actor presents an imminent threat to federal networks using F5 devices and software,” CISA’s directive says. China-linked hackers previously exploited F5 vulnerabilities.

Companies

Amida promotes Srinivasan to chief executive

Co-founder Peter Levin moves into an executive director role focused on the company's artificial intelligence portfolio.

Companies

JPMorgan Chase unveils $10B national security investment plan

Direct equity and venture capital investments will feature in the global banking giant's new Security and Resiliency Initiative.

Companies

Ancient warriors, modern warfare: General Dynamics teams with ‘neo prime’ to build drone killer

GD is working with Epirus on the TRX Leonidas system, which uses microwaves to blast swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Contracts

DOD cancels expansion of P-LEO satellite contract

The Pentagon is not explaining why it terminated an on-ramp process.

Companies

HavocAI closes $85M capital raise

The one-year-old startup partners with existing shipyards to build its uncrewed vessels and focuses on their central operating systems to integrate the autonomy.