Opinion

The James Webb telescope can teach us more than just space

Project management lessons from this program serve as an instruction manual on how to leverage mistakes and mitigate risks.

Contracts

Leidos wins DIA data architecture contract

The Defense Intelligence Agency is seeking to make data more accessible to users and automate time-consuming processes.

Top 100

TOP 100: Lumen’s strategy goes beyond its network modernization base

The No. 31 company on our 2022 Top 100 is also focused on execution for the task orders it has booked under the EIS contract vehicle to transform agency networks.

Companies

Leonardo DRS finds transaction partner to take it public

Interest in listing the DRS business on the stock market never wavered even after a planned IPO was nixed.

Contracts

GSA issues final batch of STARS III awards

The potential $50 billion IT services and solutions vehicle feeds into the White House's larger procurement equity push.

Contracts

Guidehouse scores redo of Secret Service contract

The agency must look into an organizational conflict-of-interest allegation and make a new evaluation.

Contracts

Round 3: Army energy contract hit by yet another protest

The Army Corps of Engineers reworked the solicitation for services related to stable and dependable energy supplies and made a new award, which led to a new challenge from a disappointed bidder.

Companies

DMI appoints new growth chief

She joins the company within a year of its private equity owner joining the fold.

Companies

SilverEdge hires new human resources leader

Private equity firm Godspeed Capital formed the company out of three acquisitions.

Contracts

BAE wins $699M DOD supercomputing services contract

Work will support the Defense Department's network of centers that house high-performance computing capabilities.

Contracts

Defense topline funding could see a bump, panel chairman says

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told reporters he was confident that defense budget limits could be increased beyond the White House's request.

Companies

General Dynamics' $11B DOD 'Fourth Estate' IT protest denied

Barring more action, this lets Leidos proceed on its work for the 10-year Defense Enclave Services award and consolidate IT systems for 22 DOD agencies.

Companies

Vectrus stockholders green-light merger with Vertex

The companies expect to close their transaction in the third quarter of this year.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Why a Top 100 company changed its name after 33 years

CEO Paul Dillahay explains to Editor Nick Wakeman why NCI Information Systems became Empower AI and how the multi-year journey leading up to that new name transformed the Top 100 company.

Companies

C2 Technologies adds new senior VP

Her new areas of responsibility at C2TI will cover customers, business operations and strategic growth

Companies

BlackSky elevates new finance chief

The nearly three-decade industry veteran also held the CFO role at what was then DigitalGlobe and GeoEye.

Contracts

Small biz leaders urge Congress to address category management woes

As the rate of small businesses providing goods and services to the federal government plummets, experts are demanding lawmakers reassess an increasingly popular procurement method meant to reduce burdens and cost.

Top 100

Maximus moves up the Top 100 with acquisitions, awards

The company's transformation journey also includes leveraging demand for services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.