Companies

Tyto Athene hires Kelly as chief executive

Tyto Athene is backed by the private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners, with whom Dennis Kelly most recently worked with to bring two of its portfolio companies together.

Contracts

WT special event to put focus on winning in the defense market

This coming Friday, hear research on how Pentagon leaders perceive the defense industrial base and a one-on-one interview with the new leader of the Army's program executive office for IT.

Contracts

Deloitte fights for another shot at $789M SHARKCAGE cyber contract

The company is challenging the Navy's evaluation of proposals and selection of a rival for the cybersecurity contract.

Companies

SPA acquires parts of ManTech's technical advisory business

The sale aligns with the company's strategy of accelerating innovation and mission performance with AI, high-end cyber and engineering.

Opinion

Palantir's teaming approach on display in $178M Army targeting tech win

Our eyes go immediately to Palantir's lineup of industry partners for the "TITAN" program that show both disruption and teaming, especially when seeing both longstanding and emerging players on the list.

Contracts

Army finalizes $910M test, engineering award

The protest window is now closed, for good, which clears the way for work to start at the Army's Redstone Test Center.

Contracts

Amentum books $591.6M Navy fleet support contract

The company will work with U.S. allies and provide ship and systems engineering services.

Opinion

Our next Power Breakfast to explore the Navy-industry partnership

This March 8 event will feature speakers from the Navy, Defense Department and industry that will share insights into what it means to work with the Navy.

Contracts

Non-compliance ruling sparks protest over $12B Army IT contract

DH Technologies says its issue was minor and didn't give the company a competitive advantage.

Contracts

Nearly 300 comment on proposed CMMC rule

The Defense Department now has to process and respond to the comments before it issues the final version of the industry-wide rule in the fall.

Contracts

Navy envisions ‘hundreds of thousands’ of drones in the Pacific to deter China

With DIU contracting for prototypes, Pacific Fleet is experimenting with unmanned craft that may one day defend Taiwan.

Contracts

How and why Jacobs lost a $2.8B incumbent contract

A newly-released bid protest decision describes one significant mistake by Jacobs, but also includes allegations of information being shared because the business unit involved is part of a complex merger.

Contracts

GovCIO wins $865M CENTCOM communications contract

GovCIO unseats an incumbent to take over the work across Central Command's area of responsibility, which covers 20 countries and 90,000 U.S. government personnel.

Companies

WT 360: All about SMX's digital transformation thesis

SMX's chief executive Peter LaMontagne discusses where the company wants to go, how it defines tech modernization as being more than just about cloud migration and what the Defense Department's new industrial strategy means for GovCon.

Contracts

US reviews export controls in Britain, Australia for high-tech arms sales exemptions

A State Dept. official told a House panel that work to align AUKUS partners with U.S. export control requirements is ‘going very well'.

Companies

Sigma Defense closes second JADC2-focused acquisition

The Sagewind-backed technology integrator has prioritized the military's overarching soldier-and-network connectivity vision in the strategy.

Contracts

IARPA makes awards in 4-year effort studying hacker psychology

The program greenlit research contracts for technologies that would use psychology to thwart hackers.

Opinion

Our next Power Breakfast explores the new National Defense Industrial Strategy

Danielle Miller, a Defense Department official and one of the strategy's authors, will share insights into the strategy and what comes next at our Feb. 16 event.

Companies

Synthetaic closes $15M Series B funding round

The venture arms of IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton are among the investors in Synthetaic, which is looking to further develop and scale its image categorization tool.