Paperless Innovations has received authorization from the General Services Administration to offer e-commerce tools from its Actus cloud-based government purchase card compliance automation and management platform to government customers via the GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicle. The company said Tuesday it was assigned an E-Commerce Special Item Number for Actus, which is designed to enable federal, state and local government agencies to automate their purchase card transactions and compliance requirements.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has migrated approximately 200,000 end users to a secret cloud environment through the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions blanket purchase agreement. General Dynamics Information Technology announced the milestone in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday.

Ensco has unveiled a new center dedicated to providing tailored cybersecurity and physical security products and services to the critical infrastructure sector. The Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection builds on Ensco's defense sector background to deliver comprehensive, customizable security services to critical infrastructure sectors that play key roles in U.S. national security, the company said Tuesday.

Nucleus Security raised $43 million in its Series B funding round, which was led by Arthur Ventures and Lead Edge Capital, and saw participation from In-Q-Tel, a new investor. The cybersecurity technology firm said Wednesday that the fresh investment will be used for "a strategic acceleration in product innovation, research, and development."

As of July 2023, RTX and SAIC veteran John Havermann is president and CEO of Fornax Advanced Materials. In this role, Havermann is deeply committed to securing Fornax as a go-to name in aerospace, defense and energy advanced materials manufacturing.

The busy leader recently sat down with ExecutiveBiz to give us a peek behind the curtain at his new company, explain how it’s responding to the national security threats of the day and more.

LeoLabs raised $29 million in a recent funding round that saw the participation of existing investors like Insight Partners, Velvet Sea Ventures and Space Capital, and the involvement of new ones like GP Bullhound, an investment banking company. LeoLabs said Monday that it provides space operators with insights concerning space safety, security and sustainability based on data collected by the company's proliferated radar network and processed by artificial intelligence algorithms, which will benefit from the latest investment.

Rebellion Defense has received a subcontract from warfighter-focused engineering and design firm Fuse to deliver custom software technology services to the U.S. Navy in support of a program that seeks to enhance the Pentagon’s joint tactical network. The Washington-based technology company said Monday it will integrate its engineers and operators into Project Overmatch through its mission engineering service.

John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, has been included for the second time in Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award recognizing government contracting change-makers for 2024. A champion of digital twin technology, Ustica highlighted SGT's innovation to combine the power of physical and digital tools to meet the production cycle needs of the public sector. 

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Sigma Defense Systems has launched a development, security and operations platform designed to help defense and government agencies accelerate their digital transformation and software modernization initiatives. Sigma Software Studio is a DevSecOps platform authorized to operate across the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and the Department of the Navy enterprise, the company said Monday.

Aalyria, along with local and foreign institutions, has demonstrated the capabilities of two network concepts aimed at interconnecting private and public sector communications-equipped assets from anywhere in the world. The company said Monday the demo forms part of a previously awarded contract to showcase the Hybrid Space Architecture and Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concepts securely integrating assets from the Department of Defense, European Space Agency, Comtech, Eutelsat OneWeb, Intelsat and Viasat.

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RTX’s Pratt & Whitney business has concluded a critical design assessment of its engine offering for the U.S. Air Force’s future next-generation air dominance aircraft. The milestone marks a key step in bringing the company’s engine prototype, dubbed XA103, closer to completing a detailed design review as part of the service branch’s Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion program, RTX said Monday.

Digital services integrator Fearless secured a three-year contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further develop, maintain and modernize the Enterprise Data Exchange, or DEX, platform, which is designed to support data ingestion, routing, validation, provisioning and streaming. DEX works to receive data from clinics, hospitals, laboratories, nonprofit organizations and government agencies and deliver that data back to the same entities through portals and application programming interfaces, the company said in a Dec. 11 news release.