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How Guidehouse's $1.5B AI investment will bring others in too
Building out a partner ecosystem and training Guidehouse's 18,000 employees on using artificial intelligence tools are key to how the company will work with clients to adopt them.
Contracts
NASA starts 2nd on-ramp for $476M Earth data contract
A total of 15 providers are involved in the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program, which NASA uses to support its Earth science research and application activities.
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Leidos CEO: cost, efficiency conversations with customers are shifting
In talking with Wall Street, Tom Bell says the customer dialogue tide is turning from "simply slash-and-burn" and more toward what the longer term should look like.
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Special Aerospace Services unveils new name, identity
The space- and missile defense-focused company employs 250 people that work on systems and technologies for emerging priorities, of which the Golden Dome initiative is one.
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Finance, growth and tech leadership moves across the market
Our newest compilation of key hires and promotions features a trio of former government leaders taking up new private sector roles.
Podcasts
WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on reindustrialization and its underlying ecosystem
Lauren Williams, our Defense One colleague and a senior editor there, jumps in to help connect some dots between the defense industrial base and the U.S.’ efforts to regain global manufacturing leadership.
Contracts
V2X wins $4.3B T-6 logistics contract
The contract covers support of 739 total planes across the Air Force, Army and Navy.
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Teledyne subsidiary wins $127M Navy health IT recompete
Teledyne Brown Engineering helps the Naval Health Research Center develop and iterate software for use in modeling care flow and larger-scale operations.
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Northrop unveils first cohort for autonomous flight tech program
Beacon is also a way for the blue chip defense hardware maker to share what it has learned over the years about autonomous flight with other companies.
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Dropzone AI closes $37M Series B round
In-Q-Tel is continuing its backing of the two-year-old startup, which is pushing an approach of blending agentic artificial intelligence functions and cyber.
Contracts
Space Force choose 5 for $4B secure communications contract
The service branch is seeking to incorporate commercial solutions into its hybrid architecture that includes purpose-built satellites.
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Barrios wins $450M NASA technical integration recompete
The company won the predecessor contract in 2020 and is poised to continue its support of programs like the International Space Station.
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Firefly sets the size, specs of its public offering
Like with Voyager Technologies and its IPO, Firefly is looking to ride a wave of investor interest in space amid expectations of spending increases.
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SAIC's CEO: 'What was defense is now national security'
That description also extends to how Toni Townes-Whitley talks about the industry, but with a different word to describe its participants.
Podcasts
WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on Uber’s federal pact and procurement centralization
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for all GovExec publications including WT, jumps in to help connect the rideshare giant’s agreement with the General Services Administration and the agency’s agenda for reforming government contracting.
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Booz Allen's AI blueprint for customers and the company itself
In talking with Wall Street, Booz Allen's chief operating officer gives an overview of how the company is using artificial intelligence in its push to return the civil business to growth and for internal functions related to talent.
Contracts
Pentagon halts $15B Advana recompete draft solicitation
DOD was previously looking to bring in new vendors to support its Advana data-analytics platform through a potential 10-year, $15 billion Advancing Artificial Intelligence Multiple Award Contract.
Contracts
Navy chooses 7 for $240M training support contract
Awardees will aid the Navy's largest shore command, which bases 24,000 uniformed and civilian personnel around the world.
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GovCIO to acquire Iron Bow's telehealth subsidiary
GovCIO will inherit a $1.4 billion Veterans Affairs Department contract and has plans for further software and artificial intelligence investments in that program.
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