Apex, Axiom and Impulse Space detail their newest venture rounds
Each company is focusing on efforts to expand manufacturing capacity and other aspects of scaling out their businesses. Apex The satellite and bus producer has secured $200 million in growth capital to support work on expanding its manufacturing campus and ramping up vertical integration of subsystems. Apex started in 2022 to design and build productized buses […]
Quantum Space agrees on transaction that will take it public
Quantum Space is looking to ride the wave of investor interest in the sector as SpaceX’s initial public offering looms over the capital markets. Quantum Space, a satellite manufacturer led by former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, has agreed to a transaction that will take the company public four years after its founding. Quantum Space said Monday […]
How supply chain crises emerge with faulty assumptions
Commercial supply chains are built to operate in a different world and that often conflicts with how government agencies base their budgets and timelines, writes Don Baker. In large federal programs, the earliest expectations often become the hardest risks to unwind, especially when those expectations are built on commercial supply chains that cannot support government requirements. […]
House lawmakers want the Navy to deploy drone boats faster
A draft of the 2027 defense policy bill would push service leaders to develop a clear strategy. The Navy would have to detail its plans to buy and use seagoing drones under a suite of provisions in the House Armed Services Committee’s draft 2027 defense policy bill. The bill, which passed out of committee late Thursday, […]
WT 360: All about AE Industrial’s place in the market’s private capital action
Kirk Konert, managing partner at AE Industrial Partners, describes his firm’s approach of aligning investment decisions with government priorities and tells the story of how two portfolio companies hit the public markets. We have taken a deeper dive into the government market’s private investment landscape in recent weeks by hearing the viewpoints of a banker […]