Plus one company in the upper quadrant of our 2025 Top 100 realigns its executive reporting tree upon a major departure and a second hires an executive to steer Golden Dome pursuits.
These “deals of a different stripe” to own part of a company require the same business muscles as acquisitions: belief in a business and a willingness to put down money in support of that belief.
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.
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.
Three incumbents will continue onto this expanded iteration of the program focused on defending against unintended technology transfers or alterations by adversaries.
L3Harris Technologies' acquisition of a secure communication product business from Viasat put the buyer on an information sharing network for the U.S. military and NATO, which is in need of continuous hardware and software updates.
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.
