Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel’s chief information security officer, has proposed a set of policies that he believes industry and the government could adopt in order to respond to cyber attacks, Defense One reported Thursday. Patrick Tucker writes Geer shared his recommendations for governing the software industry during the Black Hat cybersecurity conference Wednesday. Geer recommended the government mandate […] More

In-Q-Tel has invested in and signed a technology development deal with Expect Labs to build voice-enabled applications for government using the latter’s MindMeld API developer platform, GCN reported Monday. The report said MindMeld API provides developers a platform to build voice-enabled interfaces for apps, devices or websites as well as includes indexing and contextual analysis capabilities. George Hoyem, an investments partner at In-Q-Tel, […] More

In-Q-Tel has invested and signed an agreement with Vorbeck Materials on the development of the latter company’s graphene technology for applications in the intelligence community and commercial electronics industry. “This collaboration will speed the adoption of graphene-based technologies, leading to robust and versatile consumer electronics products,” John Lettow, Vorbeck Materials president, said Monday. According to Vorbeck, the agreement is geared toward further development […] More

Nucleus Security raised $43 million in its Series B funding round, which was led by Arthur Ventures and Lead Edge Capital, and saw participation from In-Q-Tel, a new investor. The cybersecurity technology firm said Wednesday that the fresh investment will be used for "a strategic acceleration in product innovation, research, and development."

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Teresa Shea, previously a vice president at the former Raytheon company, was added to the board of directors of Two Six Technologies, an Arlinton, Virginia-based company that provides national security customers with technology products and expertise. The executive has over three decades of experience in serving with the National Security Agency.

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Trust Lab has raised $15 million through a Series A funding round led by venture capital financing firms U.S. Venture Partners and Foundation Capital. The investment will enable the company to bolster its artificial intelligence-powered tools for monitoring and identifying harmful internet content, the web security platform developer said Thursday.  Tom Siegel, co-founder and CEO […] More

The venture capital units at Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies took part in an investment round that raised $12.5 million for Fortify, a startup company developing an advanced manufacturing platform. Fortify said Thursday the money will go toward its Digital Composite Manufacturing system development and business growth initiatives. The DCM platform, designed to support complex […] More

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Fortify to enable the Boston-based digital manufacturing company to advance additive manufacturing of radio frequency components. Fortify said Tuesday its Digital Composite Manufacturing platform is designed to enable users to produce complex structures using electrical, mechanical, electromagnetic and thermal properties. Fortify CEO Lawrence Ganti […] More

Christopher Galvin, former chairman and CEO of Motorola, joined the board of directors of ColdQuanta following the executive’s investment in the quantum technology company via recent Series B funding round. ColdQuanta said Tuesday it raised $110 million through the financing round, which was led by LCP Quantum along with other investors such as In-Q-Tel, Sumitomo […] More

Lisa Porter and Michael Griffin, co-presidents of LogiQ, have been added to the advisory board of intelligent radio frequency company AiRANACULUS. The new advisers have worked in several government and private sector roles and will bring experience in defense and aerospace development and management, AiRANACULUS said Monday. Porter formerly led research and development efforts for […] More

Fortanix has announced the adoption of its Data Security Manager platform by federal agencies to safeguard sensitive data and mitigate future cyberattacks. Fortanix’s DSM platform uses confidential computing to help government agencies protect data and IP within Trusted Execution Environments and provide them the ability to move and process encrypted data in cloud environments, the […] More

Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies has raised $26.4 million in a round of Series B financing and will use the funds to support growth initiatives and provide satellite connectivity for internet of things-based devices. The space company said Tuesday Artesian Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Grok, Alumni Ventures, South Australian Venture Capital Fund, Hostplus and […] More