2026 Industry Eagle Award: Meagan Metzger
Dcode’s founder saw barriers in government contracting as problems she could find a path to solve. Early in her career, Meagan Metzger walked into a program office with a simple question: Why was the government building software it could just buy? Again and again, she saw the same pattern: the government spending time and money building […]
OpenAI announces availability across cloud providers
The artificial intelligence developer updated its terms and conditions with Microsoft, announcing that its suite of agentic capabilities would now be available via other cloud providers. OpenAI and Microsoft are changing the terms of their partnership, ending exclusivity between OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models and Microsoft’s cloud offerings — as the AI developer announced new product availability […]
Leidos secures $869M contract to help the Army see the battlefield faster
The MACRO II effort covers artificial intelligence and advanced networking across land, sea, air, space, cyber and electromagnetic domains. Leidos has booked a five-year, $869 million Army task order to help operators make faster and better decisions across the electromagnetic spectrum and other domains. The work will use artificial intelligence, advanced networking and modular open architecture to […]
NOAA starts the bidding for ProTech 2.0’s environmental monitoring domain
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is seeking to hire a pool of companies that can help it use satellite data for its forecasting and modeling operations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has opened the proposal window for the fifth and last domain of ProTech 2.0, its main contract for acquiring professional services from small […]
Scout AI fetches $100M in Series A capital
The two-year-old company labels its flagship product as an “AI brain” and outs Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture arm as a backer. Scout AI, a developer of software to help coordinate unmanned military systems, has completed a $100 million Series A investment round to aid the further development of its artificial intelligence model. Co-founders Colby Adcock and […]
SOCOM adding AI, autonomy ‘at every level,’ commander says
Fast adoption illustrates smaller organizations’ ability to harness disruptive tech. AI and autonomy are being integrated into special operations “at every level,” the leader of U.S. Special Operations Command told lawmakers on Tuesday—an indication that SOCOM, like smaller organizations everywhere, is well-poised to take advantage of disruptive technologies. They are “critical” to sensing the battlefield, continuously […]
CBP seeks AI solutions to keep pace with rising volumes of border scans
A new sources sought notice seeks artificial intelligence tools to help agents sift through tens of thousands of X-ray images at ports of entry. Customs and Border Protection is facing a volume problem as it expands the scanning of cars and trucks at ports of entry. The so-called non-intrusive inspection scanning technology that CBP is deploying […]
York Space Systems to acquire terminal maker in $355M transaction
This is York Space Systems’ second agreement to buy another company since its $629 million initial public offering in January. York Space Systems has agreed to acquire All.Space Holdings, a maker of satellite terminals for connecting to multiple networks from one unit, in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $355 million. All.Space opened for business in 2013 […]
Firestorm Labs wraps up $82M Series B round
Washington Harbour Partners, the venture arms of Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin, and the intelligence community’s In-Q-Tel organization are staying involved in the maker of portable drone manufacturing systems. Firestorm Labs, a maker of portable drone manufacturing systems for use in expeditionary locations, has collected $82 million in Series B capital from investors to further […]
COMMENTARY: A year of OneGov: Over a billion in savings and still growing
COMMENTARY | The Trump administration’s landmark initiative proved that consolidated, smart purchasing is not only good for government operations but also the bottom line. The General Services Administration (GSA) launched the OneGov initiative with a simple but ambitious goal: to transform how the federal government procures technology by acting as a single, unified customer. Today, we […]