Acclaim Technical Services promotes Popelier to CEO
The 21-year market veteran has worked as acting chief executive since January and was a business unit general manager before that. Acclaim Technical Services has promoted a new chief executive from within its own ranks in David Popelier, who has been with the government technology services provider since 2020. The 21-year market veteran has led ATS […]
Secure by Design is just the start, CISA official says
A program manager for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said ongoing threat vigilance is needed post-implementation of the agency’s Secure by Design framework. Incorporating a Secure by Design framework is just the start to engineering a threat-resilient digital environment, per officials helming the initiative at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Speaking during the Critical […]
Muon Space closes Series B round at $146M
The four-year-old small satellite maker has more financial resources for the development of its Earth intelligence gathering platform and to acquire another company. Muon Space, a small satellite manufacturing startup, has closed its Series B capital raise at $146 million to support the scaling of its production posture and acquire a fellow young company that specializes […]
OpenAI awarded $200M DOD prototype contract
The Defense Department is eyeing administrative operations, health care and cyber as areas with potential use cases for the company’s technology. OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to continue developing artificial intelligence prototypes for the Defense Department. The one-year other transaction agreement, announced Tuesday, will focus on how what the company calls “frontier AI” […]
Lockheed hires former Pentagon AI lead as tech chief
Craig Martell led the development and rollout of a strategy for the Defense Department to adopt more artificial intelligence tools. Lockheed Martin has hired a new chief technology officer in Craig Martell, formerly the Defense Department’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer from 2022 to 2024. Martell will start at the company on Monday and report […]
How drone warfare fares in the 2026 budget
The president’s proposal leans heavily on one-time reconciliation dollars. The Pentagon wants to spend more than 20 percent more next year to research, develop, test and evaluate new technologies—but that increase would come from the Trump administration’s massive tax and budget reconciliation bill, leaving funding levels flat if Congress doesn’t pass it. And a lot of […]
ODRG secures venture backing for national security, geospatial tech strategy
Advantage Capital is investing in the 12-year-old contractor through Empower The Change, a fund started in 2022 to exclusively provide capital to minority-owned businesses. Organizational Development Resource Group, a technology services company focused on national security and geospatial customers, has secured a $3 million investment from a growth capital fund geared toward entrepreneurs it views as […]
Agriculture reopens cloud integration pacts for bids
Stratus is the Agriculture Department’s one-stop cloud acquisition vehicle that other government agencies can also place orders against. The Agriculture Department is now ready to start adding more companies for the integration and development portion of Stratus, a centralized procurement for driving cloud computing adoption across the entire enterprise. In the spring of 2024, Agriculture chose […]
General Dynamics wins $580M security tech system recompete
This new task order covers operations, maintenance and general tech refresh work on force protection systems and ground sensors. General Dynamics has won a potential five-year, $580 million task order to continue its role in helping the Army operate a complex security technology system for protecting personnel and sites around the world. The Integrated Base Defense […]
WT 360: Our first takeaways from the 2025 Top 100 with more to follow
Nick is all done putting together the 32nd annual edition of our flagship rankings. For this first in a two-part episode, Nick and Ross start talking all about what this research project tells us about both the companies and market. Edition number 32 of the Washington Technology Top 100 rankings is now live for all […]