Contracts

DARPA chooses 6 for $1.25B professional services vehicle

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency uses its so-called TASS vehicle to acquire technical support for its programs and offices in areas such as research-and-development.

Podcasts

WT 360: Budget disconnects, opportunities define today's federal market landscape

John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector analysts at the market intelligence firm Technology Business Research, share their findings on how government contractors are working through the lack of regular budgets and the larger tech talent competition.

Companies

Bridge Core's busy agenda of acquisitions, new CEO and board appointments

The NewSpring Holdings-backed company is working on intelligence solutions around visualization, analytics and cybersecurity and other areas.

Companies

HII's board adds former Southern Command leader

Craig Faller retired from the Navy in 2021 after 38 years of service.

Companies

Kapoor joins Frontier Technology's board

Kay Kapoor formerly led government business units at AT&T and Accenture.

Contracts

NSA to stand up AI security center

Securing AI means preventing it “from learning, doing, and revealing the wrong thing,” Gen. Paul Nakasone said.

Contracts

New ‘Hyperspace Challenge’ aims to pair mature space tech with DOD, Space Force

The upcoming Hyperspace Challenge will link industry with the Defense Department and inform them of various opportunities to partner.

Opinion

TSA backtracks on $93M award to Deloitte after protests

Three unlikely competitors pursued this blanket purchase agreement to help the Transportation Security Agency run its security operations center.

Contracts

Treasury sketches out family of enterprise cyber contracts

These blanket purchase agreements will go by the apt acronym of PROTECTS and focus on security operations center functions.

Contracts

Army developing next version of enterprise-wide payroll system

CACI International has worked on the system since 2015. but will almost certainly face competition for the recompete.

Opinion

KBR joint venture takes back lost NASA contract

KBR lost this program in 2017, but joined forces with another company six years later to win the work back. That reminds us that nothing is forever in the federal market, among other lessons.

Contracts

Booz Allen books $630M Space Force engineering contract

With the protest phase now done, the company and customer alike can go ahead on integrating new technologies and techniques into space-based sensing programs.

Opinion

Are you seeking CMMC certification? Here's what you need to know

Ola Sage leads one of the CMMC ecosystem's assessment organizations and gives the inside word here on how contractors should move to show they are meeting this new industry-wide cybersecurity standard.

Opinion

Looking to sell? Here are some critical tax implications

Financial planner Jamie Waldren explores key strategies to manage the sale of your company and various tax implications.

Contracts

Booz Allen stands alone in T4NG protest fight

The Veterans Affairs Department's potential $60 billion IT services and solutions vehicle remains tied up in the courts.

Companies

Vayu Robotics makes its debut with initial investors

Lockheed Martin's venture arm is one of Vayu's early backers as the artificial intelligence startup looks to further scale its robotic product development efforts.

Companies

Agile Defense hires Wagner as CEO

The former president of Microsoft's federal arm joins one of Enlightenment Capital's companies in the government market.

Contracts

New cyber rules aim to standardize requirements for federal contractors

The proposed rules would create new information sharing and incident reporting requirements.

Opinion

Townes-Whitley becomes SAIC's new leader

Science Applications International Corp. is among the handful of the market's largest companies to install a new CEO over the past 12 months.

Companies

V2X hires RTX vet as finance chief

Shawn Mural most recently worked in the same capacity for one of RTX's three business segments.