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Arlington Capital reveals its new defense tech company
The same investment firm that is selling BlueHalo to AeroVironment is now ready to showcase GRVTY, a specialist in geospatial and signals intelligence.
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Anduril wins $642M Marines counter-drone tech contract
The service branch wants to cover the entire kill chain and use signature disruption as its means for countering adversaries' unmanned aircraft.
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Growth and space leadership moves across the market
Our periodic summary of executive movement begins with one of the market's most notable private equity names adding to its braintrust.
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Epirus collects $250M in Series D capital to scale up production
The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries' drones.
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How the CEOs of Booz Allen, L3Harris view DOGE's vision
In talking with investors, both chief executives highlight speed and help to the customer as big-picture goals they want to see the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency realize.
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Stoke Space collects $260M in Series C capital
The company started in 2020 and has approval from Space Force to bid for future launches of small payloads.
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Loft Orbital captures $170M in Series C investments
The company has fetched $300 million in external capital since it opened for business in 2017 with the idea of integrating and operating customer payloads in its satellites.
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Crimson Phoenix acquires geospatial tech provider
The Godspeed Capital-backed company is looking to grow its lineup of artificial intelligence-powered data labeling tools for use by intelligence agencies.
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NASA awards $1.1B electrical, electronic engineering recompete
Iteration number four of this contract supports work on the development and validation of new technologies for space and science missions.
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Eutelsat-OneWeb government arm promotes Canning to CEO
The subsidiary is looking to expand the availability of its low-Earth and geostationary orbit networks.
Commercial
Millennium Space Systems hires Gingiss as chief executive
Owned by Boeing since 2018, the small satellite maker is entering the next phase of its production ramp-up and market expansion push.
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Growth and strategy leadership moves across the market
A pair of appointments to boards of directors also feature a high-profile consulting firm and a global defense giant.
Defense
Air Force starts the bidding for $750M CENTCOM support contract
The service branch plans to award approximately 20 positions on the vehicle that will be open to more Defense Department buyers than just Central Command.
Science & Tech
FAA awards two more seats on engineering recompete
The Federal Aviation Administration moves ahead on its selections for iteration number two of its Air Traffic Engineering and Program Support contract.
Defense
Lockheed details executive transitions in its enterprise, engineering functions
The defense giant's famed Skunk Works advanced development division is also getting a new leader.
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FAA chooses 4 for $1.4B air traffic control support contract
Each awardee is assigned certain geographic areas and each award has a different ceiling value.
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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.
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Assertive Professionals wins $127M MDA professional services contract
The Missile Defense Agency made this award as part of its family of contracts known as TEAMS.
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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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Maxar finds buyer for radar, sensor tech group
The space technology company makes a portfolio reshaping move close to one year after its restructuring.
