Arlington, Va.-based cybersecurity firm Shift5 has raised $2.5M in a new round of venture funding led by Squadra Ventures and backed by Emerging Ventures, Lamphere Capital, Nue Capital and Outland.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Larry Prior, an operating executive for The Carlyle Group, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for providing investment guidance and advice on management, operations and growth strategies.

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The Virginia Economic Development Partnership has selected Cambridge to join a two-year program that offer capital resources intended to help vendors generate sales in the international marketplace.

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a one-year, $63.1 million contract for information technology and telecommunications services to the military branch’s customers in the National Capital Region. Leidos will perform work at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland; Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.; the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va. and other Air Force facilities across the […] More

Approximately 400 business leaders including CEOs, founders, venture capitalists and angel investors are expected to attend the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Summer Forum that will be held on June 21 in Arlington, Va. The event will feature a roundtable discussion on ways to establish and fund technology companies. The panelists for that discussion are: Bobby Ocampo, […] More

Fila Group has secured a contract to help the Department of Health and Human Services develop a roadmap to modernize a technology platform HHS uses to manage grants data. The company said Friday it will provide enterprise architecture, business intelligence, web systems and strategic plan development support for HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants Systems. HHS’ Operating Divisions and Office […] More

Paul Hobelmann will join WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff as a vice president at the company’s Arlington, Virginia office. WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff said Monday Hobelmann will lead its structural engineering practice on buildings in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and aid the company’s suite of services that covers mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering. Hobelmann has more than […] More

The U.S. Army has granted Deloitte Consulting a four-year, $9 million contract to provide enterprise value map, value chain and governance performance analysis for the Naval Air Warfare Center weapons division. Deloitte will conduct analysis in support of project management, executive consulting, business improvements, sustainment, process design and other areas, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The company will perform work […] More

Leidos has been awarded a $10.4 million contract by the Washington Headquarters Services to provide labor support for the Office of Military Commissions’ case preparations for hearings and trials. The Defense Department said Wednesday the labor-hour contract requires linguists, interpreters, translators, stenographers and court reporters for enemy combatant trials at the U.S. naval station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DoD said […] More

(Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to ATK’s April announcement that the company would spinoff its sporting division into an independent company and merge its aerospace and defense businesses with Orbital Sciences. Click here to read GovCon Wire’s coverage of both transactions.) As senior vice president and chief information officer at ATK, Jeff Kubacki acts as the Arlington, […] More

Aneesh Chopra, formerly U.S. chief technology officer and Virginia secretary of technology, co-founded Hunch Analytics in October 2013 with the goal of helping organizations manage big data, the Washington Post reported Monday. Steven Overly writes the Arlington, Va.-based start-up works with energy, healthcare and academic leaders to help their organizations leverage databases and algorithms for […] More