Defense

Defense officials hopeful incoming administration keeps funding cutting-edge tech

Amid competing priorities, they pitched dual-use research as key to competing with China.

  • By Patrick Tucker

Core One acquires intelligence analysis provider

The now-500 employee company gains a new footing at the Defense Intelligence Agency, among other customers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army lets some protesters back into ITES-4H competition

But other challenges are still moving forward in court regarding how the Army has evaluated bids for the $10 billion multiple-award IT hardware contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Navy budget puts emphasis on infosec, enterprise systems and tools

Grier Eagan, senior market intelligence analyst with ImmixGroup, breaks down Navy IT spending and identifies where the service branch is looking for help.

  • By Grier Eagan

ManTech secures $1.4B cyber task order

The company will support the ICON framework for sharing intelligence across the national security community.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SixGen purchases software development specialist

SixGen has now completed three acquisitions in six months with the support of its private equity owner Washington Harbour Partners.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Markon buys IT consulting firm

This represents Markon's second purchase with the support of Sterling Investment Partners, which carved out the business in the summer of 2023.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NOAA awards key contract for space situational awareness system

Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. nabbed a contract worth up to $13.3 million to provide a “presentation layer” for the Traffic Coordination System for Space.

  • By Frank Konkel, GovExec Space Project

General Dynamics IT secures $330M in Army training awards

The company will help train 500,000 soldiers across Pacific and Airborne Corps missions by using advanced simulation environments.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DOD reveals first draft of $15B artificial intelligence contract

The Defense Department wants more companies in the fold for Advana, a multi-domain analytics and AI platform that DOD wants to further scale out.

  • By Ross Wilkers

BlueHalo acquires underwater robotic tech provider

The technologies that VideoRay specializes in are also what it will bring to AeroVironment, when the latter closes its acquisition of BlueHalo.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Assertive Professionals wins $127M MDA professional services contract

The Missile Defense Agency made this award as part of its family of contracts known as TEAMS.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AeroVironment builds out defense tech portfolio with BlueHalo acquisition

The combination creates a larger player in uncrewed systems, technologies to counter them and space offerings.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Groundswell's protest of Army business system award calls out debriefing issues

Groundswell's complaints around the lack of transparency in the competition brings back up an industry-wide frustration with limited feedback in debriefings from agencies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Groundswell claims the Army wanted Accenture to win the $1B EBS-C competition

Groundswell's lawsuit alleges the evaluation process was changed midstream to favor Accenture's U.S. federal arm for the contract to consolidate several Army business and logistics systems.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Marine Corps picks 10 for $164M installation command support contract

Nine new companies are joining a program that supports at least 31,000 personnel across the world.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Space Force awards 12 seats on 'Hemisphere' advisory contract

The service branch hires a pool of companies to help it manage all phases of program lifecycles that include technology development and anomaly resolution, among others.

  • By Ross Wilkers

ManTech stands up defense advisory board

This is the company's second such panel of former government officials tasked to help guide strategies with a certain client set.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: How the defense industrial base can improve its readiness

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, goes over how the U.S. industrial base has responded before and the path forward for future responses.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Leidos captures new weapons systems supply support contract

The $93 million award aims to reduce the timelines and costs of repairs and future investments.

  • By Nick Wakeman

LMI to bring AI tools to Army acquisitions

The potential $47.6 million contract calls on LMI will use its LIGER solution to build acquisition tools for the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering, and software.

  • By Nick Wakeman