Companies
Enlightenment Capital backs data protection company
The investment firm makes another move in the intelligence and cyber domain.
Companies
RTX promotes its next tech chief from within
RTX will start 2024 with a new chief technology officer as it also prepares for the next CEO to move up as well.
Contracts
DHA starts 'Reboot' for planned application development contract
The Defense Health Agency is ready to share some of the intended evaluation criteria after a long pause in announcements.
Opinion
Generative AI poised to revolutionize capture management
GenAI tools have immense potential for federal contractors when it comes to both proposal and capture management and writing compelling proposals.
Contracts
Navy kicks off work on training contract
The service branch wants a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business to support enterprise-wide training.
Companies
Carlyle, Insight Partners back supply chain software provider
Exiger will use the financial support of its new majority owners to invest more in the development of its artificial intelligence offerings and push to expand the customer base.
Contracts
ANC firms continue battle over $110M Army base support contract
The Army sided with one of the two Alaska Native Corporations vying for the work, but the service branch's pick was declared unfair.
Companies
DecisionPoint brings in new operations chief
The service-disabled veteran-owned small business makes a key hire in support of its push to enter the market's middle tier.
Companies
CISA changes plan for operations support recompete
The Homeland Security Department's cyber agency goes in a different direction for how it plans to award this upcoming task order.
Contracts
CISA details search for cloud-enabled machine learning
The Homeland Security Department's lead cyber agency wants access to more than one cloud computing platform as a way to test and develop machine learning capabilities.
Companies
HawkEye 360 adds pair of satellites via acquisition
HawkEye 360 is also bringing in a database of radio frequency data through its purchase of a now-former Maxar business unit.
Companies
Government’s quantum efforts are shifting to a near-term strategy
As the National Quantum Initiative Act is set to advance to a House vote, one federal official described the technology as “the next thing” on the horizon.
Opinion
GovCon's public company universe is poised for growth in numbers and profile
The pending emergence of at least one new publicly-traded government contractor, and maybe more, means the conversation about this market will increasingly be in the open and executives will have less control over that narrative.
Podcasts
WT 360: The drivers of M&A in 2023 and what lies ahead
Jean Stack, co-lead of the investment bank Baird's government market practice, reviews what the merger-and-acquisition landscape looked like in 2023 and how it is shaping up for 2024.
Companies
Serco's U.S. subsidiary wins $84M Air Force analytical support contract
Serco Inc. will support air operations in Southwest Asia for the next five-and-a-half-years.
Companies
L3Harris shares the plan for its other major integration
L3Harris Technologies' acquisition of a secure communication product business from Viasat put the buyer on an information sharing network for the U.S. military and NATO, which is in need of continuous hardware and software updates.
Opinion
RTX's CEO transition follows three years of change and turbulence
Both the company and Greg Hayes' tenure started amid the coronavirus pandemic and essentially a pause in air travel. Chris Calio will move up to CEO in the spring amid rising demand for defense products.
Contracts
SAIC levels OCI claim in fight for $193M Army award
Science Applications International Corp. is claiming that Peraton has an organizational conflict-of-interest that should mean disqualification from the competition.
Contracts
Senate bill would limit federal contracts with foreign-linked biotech firms
The legislation from Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., comes after he objected to a more focused provision in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act that sought to limit government contracts with one specific Chinese biotech company.
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