Companies

Palantir's partnership approach also has a customer element

Palantir is increasingly eyeing blue chip defense hardware makers as both partners and buyers of its flagship big data software offerings, a concept that puts new meaning to the word "disruption."

Companies

BigBear makes $70M vision AI play with acquisition

The addition of Pangiam centers around facial recognition and biometrics, plus a greater footing at the Customs and Border Protection agency.

Companies

Who won 2023's GovCon awards?

The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce and Professional Services Council announce class number 21 of the companies and executives as winners of the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards.

Companies

SAIC joins zero trust startup's network of investors

Science Applications International Corp.'s investment also brings a new partner into its larger cyber offerings for federal agencies.

Companies

QinetiQ centers its four-year blueprint around three-country alliance

QinetiQ Group PLC explains to its investor base how the AUKUS partnership between the U.S., U.K. and Australia is the bigger picture that shapes the company's vision and goals.

Companies

Leidos unveils new leadership group structure

One new hire joins the team as Leidos CEO Tom Bell continues to lead the work on developing the company's new North Star vision for itself.

Contracts

On the heels of Biden's executive order, agencies get White House directive on implementing AI

Agencies will be on the hook for tapping chief AI officers, adding risk management practices to AI like independent evaluations and more.

Companies

Leidos resets both security product outlook and company structure

Now in month number six as Leidos' CEO, Tom Bell gives investors more detail on the company's new set of expectations and assumptions that will shape its North Star vision.

Companies

Redhorse acquires cyber, engineering provider

The buyer is looking to complement the work it already does in data analytics and artificial intelligence.

Companies

Shield AI touts $2.7B valuation after new capital raise

The defense technology startup completes a latter-stage, Series F funding round to support the further deployment of its artificial intelligence product line.

Companies

Tech, operational and manufacturing exec moves across the market

Also this week: a global commercial provider of data security products makes additions to its public sector leadership team.

Companies

Maxar Intelligence unveils its new leadership team

Maxar now operates in two separately managed business units with a new private equity owner in place.

Companies

How X-Bow plans to break the current rocket motor ‘duopoly’

The New Mexico-based startup aims to have its first production line up and running in a few months.

Companies

L3Harris gets deeper into the supply chain with Aerojet in its fold

L3Harris Technologies' acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne has given the company more visibility into stressed supply chains and vendor capacity issues facing the defense industrial base.

Companies

Booz Allen views artificial intelligence and cyber as inherently linked

Artificial intelligence is the enabler of larger systems and it's cyber that protects them, so Booz Allen Hamilton tells investors to think of them as going together when considering the firm's strategy.

Companies

Global conflicts drive GovCon demand amid evolving capacity constraints

Investors want to know what the CEOs of publicly traded companies make of turbulence in the world and the industry's response to it. CACI International and Northrop Grumman answered those questions.

Companies

Growth and procurement leadership moves across the market

Also this week: a former Army chief of staff joins the board of directors at an emerging small unmanned aerial vehicle maker.

Companies

General Dynamics assumes 'new reality' of supply chains in its outlook

The company's IT hardware and product unit seems to assume that some fragility is now normal.

Opinion

What the mystery buyer of RTX's cyber business is getting

RTX is fetching $1.3 billion for its cybersecurity, intelligence and services business unit. We can tell you all about the transaction even without (yet) knowing the acquirer's identity.

Companies

CAE finds buyer for healthcare business

This divestiture agreement takes place two years after CAE acquired a military training division from L3Harris Technologies.