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SpyCloud has closed a $30 million Series C round to grow its product and engineering teams and build new ways to detect and prevent fraud, the company said Tuesday. The investment was led by Centana Growth Partners, with participation from all existing investors: M12, Microsoft's venture fund; Altos Ventures; Silverton Partners; March Capital Partners.

Aptima and Arizona State University have secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create artificial intelligence agents to facilitate human-AI interaction in military operations.

Kevin McAleenan, former acting secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the advisory board at Tysons, Va.-based technology services provider Easy Dynamics. He will provide advice to the company's management team on national security and law enforcement matters.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will formally introduce a program at an upcoming virtual meeting that seeks to explore methods to automate the detection and characterization of radio frequency anomalies. IARPA is scheduled to host the Proposers' Day for its Securing Compartmented Information with Smart Radio Systems initiative on Thursday, according to an Aug. 5 presolicitation notice.

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has secured a prototyping contract from the Department of Defense's innovation arm to develop an analytics technology intended to help users examine cybersecurity threat data.

Kaman has received a $57.3M order under Option 15 of a U.S. Air Force contract to manufacture programmable aerial bombs for 25 foreign military customers.

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a potential seven-year, $55M contract to help the U.S. Air Force build platforms for testing warfighter systems or technologies designed to address critical and urgent mission requirements.

The National Security Agency has certified a compact device General Dynamics' mission systems unit designed to protect sensitive data at rest in manned or unmanned systems.

Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems’ defense and intelligence systems segment, has said the Department of Defense should consider tapping industry for network management resources to support end-to-end global operations.

Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, has said that implementing a zero-trust architecture will enable agencies to augment security procedures while leveraging data across the information technology infrastructure.

The U.S. Air Force has begun testing on a surrogate aircraft the avionics and other subsystems of the Northrop Grumman-built B-21 Raider bomber in an effort to keep the aircraft development work on track, FlightGlobal reported Saturday.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions is working on new ground infrastructure that could be used to support proliferated low-Earth orbit constellations of small satellites, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “We think that p-LEO is a big deal. And there’s got to be a revolution that has to hit the ground segment,” said Phil Carrai, president of space, training and cyber division at Kratos.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 18, 2020 — Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) appointed 25-year intelligence community market veteran Damian DiPippa senior vice president and general manager of the company's intelligence group, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 3.

Intelsat has launched the Galaxy 30, a geosynchronous communications satellite that will provide high-performance television distribution service to North American customers, the company announced Saturday. The Intelsat 10-02 satellite is scheduled to be its first customer in early 2021.

Jacobs has elected Vincent Brooks, a retired U.S. Army general, to its board of directors, the company reported announced Monday. Brooks’ areas of expertise ranging from leadership in complex organizations, inclusion and diversity, national security, international relations, military operations, combating terrorism and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.