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Former head of ‘Pentagon’s think tank’ joins Anthropic
The strategy expert calls adaptation to AI a "civilizational" challenge.
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2026 Industry Eagle Award: Meagan Metzger
Dcode's founder saw barriers in government contracting as problems she could find a path to solve.
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Scout AI fetches $100M in Series A capital
The two-year-old company labels its flagship product as an "AI brain" and outs Booz Allen Hamilton's venture arm as a backer.
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York Space Systems to acquire terminal maker in $355M transaction
This is York Space Systems' second agreement to buy another company since its $629 million initial public offering in January.
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Firestorm Labs wraps up $82M Series B round
Washington Harbour Partners, the venture arms of Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin, and the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel organization are staying involved in the maker of portable drone manufacturing systems.
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True Anomaly fetches $650M in Series D round
The four-year-old space startup closes a new capital raise on the heels of its selection for a key Golden Dome-related contract.
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HawkEye 360 launches IPO roadshow, sets goals for listing
The 11-year-old commercial satellite operator is now officially at work in marketing its stock to potential institutional investors.
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Growth and operations leadership moves across the market
A pair of key hires at venture-backed defense tech outfits feature and one of them most recently spent nearly three decades at a blue chip hardware giant.
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CACI opens up more on its Arka acquisition and the path forward
In talking with Wall Street, CACI CEO John Mengucci gives an example of where Arka's agentic artificial intelligence tech is in use today and its potential moving forward.
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DOD completes $1B investment in L3Harris missile solutions unit
L3Harris Technologies is keeping an 80% stake in the solid rocket motor production business, which is becoming a public company.
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Fortem receives new Lockheed backing, Reliable Robotics completes Series B raise
Autonomous flight and supporting technologies to help avoid accidents is a common thread in both of these investment rounds.
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Delivery, tech and operations leadership moves across the market
A former USPTO chief information officer takes up a new private sector role and the air traffic control overhaul effort also features in this key hire and promotion listing.
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AEVEX fetches $320M in IPO proceeds
AEVEX is the latest government contractor to tap into the public markets amid renewed investor interest in the defense industry.
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New research firm targets federal agencies, nonprofit firms with social policy focus
Incevia Policy Partners is already working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on its Housing Choice Voucher program.
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Kentro, Lynker elevate new CEOs from within
The now-former chief executives for both companies are staying involved as board chairs.
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Citra, Turion detail their newest capital raises
Washington Harbour Partners led the Series A and B rounds for these startups focused on space, which is a priority area for the investment firm.
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World needs to ‘get ready’ for more powerful AI, Anthropic co-founder says
The company’s powerful Mythos, unveiled earlier this month, won’t be the only supercharged AI system to hit the market, Jack Clark said.
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Harmonia Holdings rebrands to Revolutional after 20 years
The new name reflects the company's growth and focus on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data science for federal civilian and national security missions.
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Lockheed boosts its venture investment fund to $1B
Lockheed Martin Ventures' core focus areas include quantum computing, autonomy, directed energy and computer chips.
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