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Saronic has raised $55 million during a Caffeinated Capital-led Series A funding round and will use the investment to support autonomous surface vessel research and development and expand platform production capacity. According to the maritime autonomy company, the funding reflects its commitment to delivering autonomous surface vessels to bridge capability gaps.
Booz Allen Hamilton says it is more determined to lead in deploying artificial intelligence for the federal government. The management and technology consulting firm announced on Wednesday new insights from its AI portfolio and the new stack of AI capabilities that can help accelerate the ability to achieve critical mission success.
Systecon has teamed with Seaspan to deliver Opus Suite, a collection of life cycle management analysis tools, to clients in support of Seaspan’s continued growth. Using Opus Suite, Seaspan will gather data on fleet performance using data-driven readiness assessments and logistics analysis capabilities to determine areas in need of enhancement and put strategies in place to improve operations, Systecon announced on Thursday.
Relativity Space will use its reusable rocket, Terran R, to bring Intelsat satellites to orbit as early as 2026 under a multiyear launch services agreement with the satellite network operator. The multilaunch deal brings Relativity Space’s total backlog across nine customers to more than $1.8 billion.
Steve Murphy, formerly vice president of contracts and subcontracts at General Motors' defense subsidiary, has been named VP of contracts for global procurement and supply chain at GM Defense. He announced his new post Thursday on LinkedIn and assumed the role after leading contractual oversight for the defense business for more than a year.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will bring together government, industry, academia and international stakeholders through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium to facilitate technical discussions and develop interoperability standards for commercial lunar infrastructure and related technologies. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will oversee LOGIC to help establish an independent, permanent forum that will serve as a venue for various stakeholders to collaborate in support of the lunar community.
X-Bow Systems has secured a $64 million contract from the Department of Defense to supply large solid rocket motors to the U.S. Navy and Army. The SRMs will boost the propulsion of the Navy's hypersonic All Up Round system, which is a component of the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike and the Army's Long Range Hypersonic weapon systems.
Lockheed Martin has completed a captive carry test of a prototype missile communication device, demonstrating its ability to provide in-flight target updates to a surface-to-surface rocket launcher system. The Remote Interceptor Guidance – 360 prototype communicated target updates to a data link flown inside a surrogate Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, Lockheed said Wednesday.
Derrick Lee, a retired U.S. Army colonel with decades of leadership experience in the military, has been named director for intelligence programs at SOS International. SOSi said Tuesday Lee will manage the business relating to military intelligence directorates and serve as a strategic advisor to clients on multi-domain intelligence operations.
Lynker, a Leesburg, Virginia-based science, engineering and technology company, has created a president post and selected Scott Rayder, former chief of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to assume the new role. "With a proven track record of driving growth and innovation, Scott is poised to lead Lynker into a new era of success," said Lynker Founder and CEO Joe Linza.
Forcepoint's Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure cybersecurity business will focus on insider risk and behavior analytics and increase investment in cyber defense technologies against insider threats after being acquired by asset management firm TPG, Forcepoint G2CI CEO Sean Berg told GovInfoSecurity in a recent interview. Berg commented that the divestiture is beneficial for the firm and Forcepoint's commercial business, but the two will continue to collaborate on certain endeavors.
Unmanned systems have evolved beyond their traditional role of providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in defense missions, according to Amentum Executive Vice President Tim Saffold. During an interview, Saffold discussed the broader applications of unmanned systems in defense, the functions they can perform in critical infrastructure upkeep and environmental surveillance and the role autonomy has in their evolution.
