Podcasts
WT 360: NextGov/FCW’s Natalie Alms on the early days of DOGE and its cost-cut decisions
Natalie Alms, senior correspondent at NextGov/FCW, jumps in to explain how court testimony helps shed light on the Department of Government Efficiency’s goals and decisions to make contract and grant cuts.
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Growth, tech and human resources leadership moves across the market
A pair of board of directors appointments at publicly-traded companies also featured.
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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.
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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.
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DISA, Carahsoft enter $970M VMware cloud software pact
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Carahsoft established the blanket purchase agreement to be a single point of entry for other Pentagon agencies.
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T2S books $600M DOD cyber contract
The Cybertron contract focuses on threat hunting, Zero Trust architectures, key management infrastructure development and artificial intelligence.
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Coast Guard details its plan for a new 'Acquisition Superhighway'
Commercial software and artificial intelligence are core to the agency's approach for this procurement, which will have a multiplier effect for the contractor-customer relationship there.
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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.
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WT 360: GovCon’s vital signs point to DHS’ partial closure, Anthropic’s possible exit and the FAR Overhaul
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, joins Nick and Ross to go over how the Homeland Security Department funding lapse is uneven in nature and other industry-wide happenings.
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DHS previews new data lakehouse software licensing pact
The platform is built on Databricks, which the Homeland Security Department wants to renew and expand its itinerary of licenses for.
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Navy's intelligence arm seeks industry input on AI model infusion
The Office of Naval Intelligence is particularly interested in taking a phased delivery approach that a contractor would help oversee.
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FAA picks 8(a) firm for $295M Technical Center support contract
Approximately 4,500 people work at the Federal Aviation Administration's primary scientific test base.
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Air Force wants its acquisition tools in the cloud
The Air Force envisions iteration number two of its LaunchPad environment as extending beyond the current base of engineering users.
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Redhawk Federal Solutions acquires SETA outfit
For Redhawk, this transaction follows Genesis Park's investment in the two-year-old company in the fall.
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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.
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SAIC's CEO highlights mission IT, engineering work as priorities
In talking with Wall Street, CEO Jim Reagan explains why the company is moving away from some enterprise IT work in favor of mission IT and how it has launched a bottom-up review of the business.
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DHS chooses small biz for $178M enterprise IT contract
Netizen will take on IT service desk responsibilities and others in support of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center organization.
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Army, Anduril enter into new $20B enterprise agreement
Much like with Palantir, the Army is entering into this pact with the idea of establishing pre-negotiated prices so it can buy goods and services on an as-needed basis.
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WT 360: All about the paths forward for SAIC, Anthropic, resellers and 8(a) companies
Nick and Ross start to look at next steps for Science Applications International Corp., IT resellers and 8(a) companies amid their changing landscapes. Anthropic’s impasse with the U.S. government also comes under the microscope.
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