Enlightenment Capital has launched a new identity software company and invested in a biometric technology developer as part of its effort to establish its presence in the identity management market. The Vienna, Virginia-headquartered private equity firm said Monday Infinite ID will offer fingerprinting and background screening services to federal, state and local government customers. Tom […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has agreed to acquire cybersecurity platform provider EverWatch, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, in a push to expand its classified software and analytics offerings for national security customers. EverWatch will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Booz Allen under Judi Dotson, president of the national security sector, once the transaction is […] More

Enlightenment Capital is setting aside up to $50 million to invest in companies that offer products and services to the aerospace, defense, government and technology sectors. The Washington, D.C.-based investment firm said Monday the NextGen Leaders of GovTech investment initiative will back minority or women-led companies that are working to help the U.S. government address […] More

Brett Lambert, a former deputy assistant secretary for manufacturing and industrial base policy at the Department of Defense, has joined the advisory board of Enlightenment Capital. He brings more than three decades of public and private sector experience as an adviser to the investment firm’s management team, Enlightenment Capital said Tuesday. Lambert is also a […] More

Jeh Johnson, a partner at law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and former secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, has been appointed to offer advice and counsel to Vienna, Virginia-based private equity firm Enlightenment Capital. Johnson will rely on his over 30-year public and private sector experience to provide legal assistance to the Enlightenment Capital as part of the engagement agreement, the firm said Tuesday.

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Washington, D.C.-based Enlightenment Capital has raised $250M in capital commitments for its third fund, exceeding the private investment firm’s $200M target. The completion of Fund III will allow the company to continue to carry out its strategy to invest in middle-market firms in the aerospace, defense and government markets, Enlightenment Capital said Thursday.

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Alion Science and Technology‘s Enlighten IT Consulting business and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point have partnered to study the potential use of data analytics in cyber mission planning and decision-making processes. Both parties will aim to create a model for commanders and their staff members to make decisions about battlefield missions that are supported […] More

Representatives of Alion Science and Technology and its Enlighten IT Consulting business will conduct live demonstrations at an upcoming NVIDIA-sponsored artificial intelligence conference in Washington, D.C. MacAulay-Brown said Thursday its parent company Alion serves as a platinum sponsor of the 2018 GPU Technology Conference that will take place from Oct. 22 to 24 and will feature discussions on AI, deep learning, high-performance […] More

Enlighten IT Consulting, an indirect subsidiary of Alion Science and Technology, has received U.S. Air Force recognition for a multi-domain operations data fusion tool.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Dave Levy, vice president of federal government at Amazon Web Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena. This is his second consecutive Wash100 award.

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The U.S. Cyber Command is seeking a contractor to support the development of a Big Data Platform through engineering expertise, analytical development services and software licenses. Cybercom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that the BDP will use a scalable cloud computing infrastructure to support packet capture data, data analysis and secure information sharing […] More

Alion Science and Technology has launched artificial intelligence tools designed to aid human-machine teaming in defense and security operations. The company said Friday it will use agile engineering approaches in efforts to help clients implement new AI-based technology platforms. Todd Borkey, chief technology officer at Alion, said the company wants to focus more on engineering […] More