Companies

Tech, integration and strategy mark the week in exec movement

Four companies feature in this roundup of key leadership appointments across the market.

Contracts

Veterans Affairs launches $2.4B recompete of user experience vehicle

A final solicitation is now live for this multiple-award effort known as SPRUCE, which seeks more modern and commercial-like software development services.

Contracts

HHS seeks zero trust support

The highly federated agency is looking for contactor assistance to hit enterprisewide security goals.

Contracts

ManTech wins $261M AF engineering, IT solutions contract

The work will focus on air dominance, weapons systems engineering and network solutions.

Companies

Could hydrogen help overcome today's battery limitations?

The four-year-old startup HevenDrones sees hydrogen as what will power the vehicles for longer durations, helping them enter new mission fields, such as contested logistics.

Companies

Madison Dearborn Partners acquires tech research provider

The private equity firm adds another government contractor to its portfolio of investments in the market.

Companies

BlueHalo purchases software-defined radio maker

The Arlington Capital Partners-backed company adds to its library of defense technology products.

Companies

Arcfield adds small satellite skills with new acquisition

The buyer is also adding more work in sensor and ground network development.

Contracts

NTT Data loses shot at CDC data center support award

DMI weathered a series of protests before finally prevailing to take over the $27 million contract.

Companies

CGI forms joint venture with service-disabled small business

The new entity will offer systems integration, managed services and consulting work to defense and civilian agencies.

Contracts

NASA unveils draft for $226M safety support recompete

The Safety and Mission Assurance Services III contract supports one of NASA's main scientific spacecraft and instrument development teams.

Companies

System One acquires federal tech consultancy

System One entered the market in 2017 and this latest purchase represents a foray into Energy Department programs.

Contracts

Army releases draft for enterprise payroll system

The Army is collecting comments from industry on its plan for the recompete of a contract to help run the system that handles base pay, benefits, bonuses and re-enlistment functions.

Companies

L3Harris to sell commercial aviation business

L3Harris Technologies' 2023 acquisition activity centered on the purchases of Aerojet Rocketdyne and the former Viasat secure data product business.

Contracts

IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete

The tax collection agency is undertaking this recompete amid its broader push to overhaul the entire tech environment, which includes systems first stood up in the 1960s.

Podcasts

WT 360: A roadmap to knowing the customer's buyer profile

Brian Lindholm, founder and managing principal of FedSavvy Strategies, provides the steps for companies to gain greater understandings of how federal agencies buy is just as important as what they buy.

Contracts

DHS previews timeline for SETA vehicle recompete

This will be the fourth iteration of a go-to contract for the Homeland Security Department to acquire industry support for its science and technology team.

Opinion

Defending military space assets is a national security imperative

Paul Maguire, CEO of Knowmadics, goes over what today's space security landscape looks like for the government and where the priorities are likely to drive tomorrow's.

Opinion

For now, T4NG2 awards are protest-free

It is now nearly 30 days since the Veterans Affairs Department's made its selections for the $61 billion IT vehicle and the window is rapidly closing for disappointed bidders to make their objections.

Companies

The people problem behind the government’s AI ambitions

A White House official calls workforce gaps “one of the biggest barriers” for agencies as they look to fulfill requirements laid out in President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence.