Companies

Raft acquires data fusion tech developer

The buyer is looking to bolster the capabilities of its agentic artificial intelligence tools for use by military operators.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

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.

Companies

Former USAID official, three contractors plead guilty in $550M bribery scheme

Their decades-long conspiracy involved rigged contracts, NBA tickets, mortgage payments, securities fraud and cash.

Companies

Tech, finance and operations leadership moves across the market

Also featured in this roundup: a new president for a major Energy Department-focused joint venture that helps operate the U.S.' only tritium plant.

Top 100

TOP 100: CGI Federal’s Stephanie Mango on navigating Trump’s ‘dynamic environment’

The leader of Company No. 34 on our 2025 Top 100 discusses a wide range of topics, including the General Services Administration's letters to "consulting" firms like CGI Federal and the potential for more outcome-based contracts.

Companies

Industry calls for more research funding, public-private partnerships in the National AI Strategy

AI heavy hitters cited robust research funding, participation in standards development, and public, private and academia collaboration in comments sent to policymakers.

Companies

PCI Federal acquires infrastructure services provider

Street Legal Industries counts the Energy Department as its largest customer and the one it is closest to by geography.

Top 100

TOP 100: How Serco Inc. uses its pivot to position for Trump priorities

Company No. 30 on our 2025 Top 100 has made acquisitions and technology investments to align it with the administration’s push for greater efficiency, lethality and modernization.

Top 100

Pockets of progress: Diversity gains slow among the 2025 Top 100

The representation of women has grown among the largest companies, but the number of Black executives has declined.

Companies

Voyager fetches $383M in public offering

Substantially all of the proceeds will go toward Starlab, which the six-year-old company is offering NASA as a replacement for the International Space Station.

Companies

The onus is on industry to explain commercial best practices

Assuming government leaders know what those practices are and how they work is not a good idea, according to the General Services Administration's chief acquisition officer.

Companies

AWS GovCloud gets high-level security approvals for Anthropic and Meta AI models

Select versions of the Claude and Llama foundation models will be available for public sector customers via the AWS GovCloud.

Companies

Anduril's Series G round and more venture moves to highlight

The venture arms of Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Science Applications International Corp. and RTX feature in this snapshot of new investment rounds focused on automation, facility access, semiconductors and space.

Companies

Navigating change: a view from the front row

Carahsoft's founder and president Craig Abod shares insights on the ongoing shifts in the federal market and how they are reshaping the contractor landscape.

Companies

Strategic discipline drives Leidos’ continued Top 100 dominance

For Company No. 1 on our 2025 Top 100, its NorthStar 2030 strategy guides major portfolio decisions ranging from its Antarctica exit to the Kudu Dynamics acquisition.

Companies

IBM bets on novel error-correction for scalable quantum computing

The company’s forthcoming quantum processor, IBM Starling, was unveiled today, with officials saying it promises efficiency without burdensome overhead.

Companies

2025's Top 100 rankings reveal a market in major upheaval

The first year-over-year decline in prime contracts since 2016 signals a growing divide between civilian and defense spending. Even before Trump's priorities kick in.