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HawkEye 360 launches IPO roadshow, sets goals for listing

The 11-year-old commercial satellite operator is now officially at work in marketing its stock to potential institutional investors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

CACI opens up more on its Arka acquisition and the path forward

In talking with Wall Street, CACI CEO John Mengucci gives an example of where Arka's agentic artificial intelligence tech is in use today and its potential moving forward.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DOD completes $1B investment in L3Harris missile solutions unit

L3Harris Technologies is keeping an 80% stake in the solid rocket motor production business, which is becoming a public company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Fortem receives new Lockheed backing, Reliable Robotics completes Series B raise

Autonomous flight and supporting technologies to help avoid accidents is a common thread in both of these investment rounds.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AEVEX fetches $320M in IPO proceeds

AEVEX is the latest government contractor to tap into the public markets amid renewed investor interest in the defense industry.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos sheds security screening unit in agreement with Analogic

The transaction moves 1,500 employees and $625 million in revenue to the Altaris-owned imaging tech company.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Citra, Turion detail their newest capital raises

Washington Harbour Partners led the Series A and B rounds for these startups focused on space, which is a priority area for the investment firm.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lockheed boosts its venture investment fund to $1B

Lockheed Martin Ventures' core focus areas include quantum computing, autonomy, directed energy and computer chips.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Public offerings put GovCon in a new spotlight as SpaceX's listing looms

Think the recent run of initial public offerings over the past 16 months were big? Get ready for SpaceX to break all-time records, and its IPO is one all of GovCon should care about, even if your company does not launch anything at all.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Hypersonics and space venture investment rounds to note

The venture capital arms of RTX, Booz Allen Hamilton and the U.S. intelligence community are among the participants in here.

  • By Ross Wilkers

HawkEye 360 files to go public

No details yet on how much the 11-year-old company is looking to raise from investors, but their financial profile and customer mix is on display for all to see.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AEVEX sets the size, specs of its public offering

The nine-year-old drone manufacturer is following the same path traveled by Voyager Technologies, Firefly Aerospace and York Space Systems as SpaceX's pending IPO looms as well.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Antaris closes $28M Series A capital round

Lockheed Martin's venture arm is a new investor in this five-year-old startup, which develops software for satellite makers to look at all lifecycles of missions in a digital twin environment.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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GALT Aerospace gets Godspeed's backing

GALT intends to ramp up its tech development activity with the private equity firm as an investor.

  • By Ross Wilkers

OceanSound Partners hauls in $3.4B for third fund

The private equity firm's newest mechanism for investments in companies closes at double the amount fetched for its second fund.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AI boat maker Saronic smashes $9 billion valuation

The company just closed a $1.75 billion funding round with eyes on increasing production tenfold.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Shield AI closes $1.5B Series G round and moves on acquisition

Shield AI aims to integrate Aechelon Technology's simulation and training tools into its autonomous software ecosystem called Hivemind.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Defense tech startups raise $405 million in new funding rounds

Booz Allen Hamilton's venture arm backs an AI radio platform developer and drone manufacturer in separate deals.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Striveworks completes Series B capital raise to scale operational AI tool

Striveworks now has Washington Harbour Partners in place as a new investor to shape this phase of the strategy and as Striveworks' CEO tells us, knowing when the tech does not work is just as key to product development as when it works.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Redhawk Federal Solutions acquires SETA outfit

For Redhawk, this transaction follows Genesis Park's investment in the two-year-old company in the fall.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AeroVironment acquires fellow unmanned aircraft maker for $200M

This move follows the $4.1 billion purchase of BlueHalo and continues AeroVironment's push for quicker transitions of technologies from design to fielding.

  • By Ross Wilkers