President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named his picks for key national security and foreign policy roles in his cabinet, including several former Obama administration officials. Biden will nominate Antony Blinken for secretary of state and Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, as well as ...

Denver-based Palantir Technologies, Inc. [PLTR] forecasts a major increase in the company’s share of DoD, intelligence community, and other federal software business, as the company seeks to become the “central operating system for all U.S. defense programs,” per last month’ ...

A new report by the House Intelligence Committee recommends a substantial increase in federal spending on basic research and development (R&D) and calls for the intelligence community (IC) to change how it is organized and sets priorities for R&D. The report says that “the current ...

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on Thursday issued new guidance for government and industry for supply chain risk management, highlighting risks throughout the lifecycle of supply chains and making recommendations on ways to reduce these risks. “Exploitation of our ...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) on Aug. 31 awarded $281.5 million in firm, fixed-price contracts to Lockheed Martin [LMT] and York Space Systems to build 10 satellites each for an initial space-based sensor and tactical communications constellation–Tranche O–to be fielded by 2022. ...

KBR, Inc. [KBR] on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Centauri for $827 million in cash in a deal that complements its existing civil space business with work in the space domain for military and intelligence customers, much of it highly classified with a strong growth trajectory and margin ...