Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Contracts

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Contracts

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

Rune Technologies fetches $24M in Series A capital

The company emerged out of stealth mode only months ago and is pushing the development of its operating system for military logistics operators.