Defense

The defense tech ecosystem gives investors many opportunities

Bill Farmer, managing director at the investment bank BGL, highlights the big bets investors are making on companies touting disruptive defense technologies amid global instability.

  • By Bill Farmer

Pentagon hits Accenture, Booz Allen and Deloitte with contract cancellations

The trio are the only named contractors in a group of cuts announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who claims $5.1 billion of cancelled contracts with $4 billion in savings.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Serco wins $96M Navy contract for Constellation-class support

Technical services firm to help Navy’s next-generation frigate with planning, design, delivery and testing.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Long-sought goal of better Pentagon buying may finally be within reach

A new executive order seeks to overhaul defense buying. A handful of innovators within the Defense Department are already showing the way.

  • By Patrick Tucker and Jennifer Hlad

Slingshot Aerospace secures Air Force contract to ‘fingerprint’ objects in space

The company is tasked with using artificial intelligence to analyze 4.5 million nightly observations from a global sensor network that tracks 14,500 satellites and other objects in space.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Washington Harbour Partners buys stake in debris-tracking satellite firm

The investment is the second announced within a week for Turion Space, which also builds satellites that can improve space-domain awareness.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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The Pentagon’s next major cloud contract is in the works

It may be even bigger than its $9 billion predecessor.

  • By Frank Konkel

Pentagon aims to accelerate acquisition of new tech through software-contracting change

Buyers must default to rapid-acquisition processes long used by DIU, SecDef memo orders.

  • By Patrick Tucker

GAO tells Air Force to re-evaluate $121.4M Trace Systems contract

The watchdog agency sends this communications support award back to the Air Force for a redo.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Space Force hopes it gains from Hegseth’s budget shift

Vice chief says service is looking for things to cut—and has suggestions for things to buy.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Epirus collects $250M in Series D capital to scale up production

The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries' drones.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Hegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday that new U.S. foreign policy configurations “largely coincides with our vision.”

  • By David DiMolfetta

Pentagon launches consulting contract review process

In order to align with Trump priorities, the Defense Department wants written justifications for why each consulting contract should not be cancelled.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Space Force taps Firefly for rapid response launches

The company will keep a rocket and vehicle on standby so Space Force can order launches for more quick responses.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Space Force warns industry on cost overruns

The service will convert pricey programs to fixed-price contracts if needed, an official said.

  • By Audrey Decker

Leidos wins $149M Air Force IT sustainment contract

Project Night Owl focuses on how the Air Force works in a secure cloud environment based on Microsoft's Azure offering.

  • By Ross Wilkers

COMMENTARY: The critical role feedback can play in better defense acquisitions

Debriefings are the key to improving the quality of contractors that pursue defense contracts as well as improving the quality of solutions, writes Valid Eval CEO Adam Rentschler.

  • By Adam Rentschler

How the CEOs of Booz Allen, L3Harris view DOGE's vision

In talking with investors, both chief executives highlight speed and help to the customer as big-picture goals they want to see the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency realize.

  • By Ross Wilkers

COMMENTARY: 5 moves to make a more agile and efficient intelligence community

Arcfield CEO Kevin Kelly writes that the IC needs to embrace innovation to optimize efficiency and improve mission outcomes.

  • By Kevin Kelly

Air Force seeks contractor to help secure global shortwave comms network

The service branch is in the early development stages of a five-year contract for cyber services to support its High Frequency Global Communications System.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Serco to acquire Northrop’s training business for $327M

Tom Watson, chief executive of Serco Inc., describes to us the company's strategy to further expand its military training capabilities and space work through the transaction.

  • By Nick Wakeman