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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

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

Aechelon lands Sagewind's backing

Aechelon makes image and data generation systems and databases to aid in military pilot training programs.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Inversion closes $44M Series A round

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm is one of a handful of investors in this company looking to further enable autonomous delivery and re-entry from space.

  • 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

Unanet adds AI tool through GovPro acquisition

Unanet brings in an artificial intelligence capability to its portfolio of offerings that help companies respond to solicitations.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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CoreStack enters federal market through acquisition

Karthhik Consulting's team of 125 employees provide cloud security and compliance offerings to federal agencies, a new set of customers for CoreStack whose primary clients have been in financial services and health care.

  • 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

AeroVironment to acquire BlueHalo in $4.1B transaction

BlueHalo's strategy and vision since its inception can be seen through its tagline "Transforming the Future of Global Defense" and now it becomes a major building block for a large defense technology company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Enlightenment unveils fifth fund with $825M raised

Enlightenment Capital's reveal of its newest investment vehicle coincides with a rebrand of the workflow and regulatory software provider it acquired in the spring.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Launch, the Moon and satellites mark the week in space investments

Each of these companies are in varying stages of maturity as a business, but all have high-profile backers behind them.

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Private equity firm creates company to harness tech for societal good

Gavin Long’s Pleasant Land group has acquired Livanta and DOMA Technologies to form a new company whose mission is improving how doctors and nurses make better care decisions.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Tria Federal's path in the middle tier centers on 2 core markets

The Sagewind Capital-backed company is acquiring Softrams and undertaking a reorganization to set itself up for the future, as Tria Federal's chief executive explains.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Godspeed collects $675M for its third fund

The backer of Crimson Phoenix, SilverEdge and Special Aerospace Services unveils this new vehicle for more investments.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Undersea drone startup fetches $16M to aid hiring, manufacturing push

Lockheed Martin Ventures, RTX Ventures, SAIC Ventures and In-Q-Tel are the GovCon names involved in this investment round.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Sabel Systems takes in new private equity backing

This research-and-development company becomes Sagewind Capital's sixth active government contracting investment.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Maxar finds buyer for radar, sensor tech group

The space technology company makes a portfolio reshaping move close to one year after its restructuring.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Ernst & Young buys digital identity tech consultancy

Dignari opened for business in 2013 and brings to EY a suite of programs across the Homeland Security Department's enterprise.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAS acquires hypersonic engineering provider

The Godspeed Capital-backed company is bringing in a business whose client base includes the Missile Defense Agency, among others.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Booz Allen's approach to prototyping with PAR in its fold

Company leaders describe to Wall Street how they have integrated PAR Government Systems since that acquisition's closure and how they see civilian agencies feeling the turbulence of election season.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How CACI's $1.2B Azure Summit acquisition expands its overseas strategy

In adding Azure Summit, CACI will first look at combining technologies to work with U.S. customers and then use that as a pathway for global expansion.

  • By Ross Wilkers