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4 crucial considerations as your business grows beyond a small business designation

A veteran of the small business world offers sage advice on four crucial consideration to prepare for when your company leaves the confines of the small business tier.

Supply chain clouds looming over defense industrial base

Global problems in the supply chain are impacting the defense industrial base and two of its largest members reported their third quarter financial results to investors Tuesday that illuminate those exact headwinds.

Sev1Tech breaks $250M revenue mark with acquisition

Sev1Tech is acquiring Geocent to add more DevSecOps and engineering services capabilities around a stable of IT modernization, cybersecurity and cloud services offerings.

Amy Gilliland on how COVID led General Dynamics IT to rethink employee relations

As the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, General Dynamics' IT services business undertook a rethinking of the way it recruited, retained and developed its employees. GDIT's president Amy Gilliland explains how the business went through that process of reimagination and reinvention.

OceanSound adds another middle tier platform with DMI backing

Private equity firm OceanSound Partners has acquired the company better known as DMI, which gives the former another middle-tier business in the federal market.

Orolia's latest acquisition builds on ultra-precise tech solutions

Orolia has acquired Seven Solutions to add a technology that was developed at a particle accelerator complex for increasing the accuracy of networks.

Cybersecurity challenges drive adoption of zero trust

Executives at this Washington Technology Executive Perspectives roundtable described how the type of threats in today's cybersecurity landscape are well known, but the frequency of attacks and types of targets continue to grow.

Federal watchdog calls out transparency issues in pandemic spending

A committee established to ensure transparency around government spending related to COVID-19 found that federal agencies failed to provide clear reporting on how they were spending billions of dollars.

Amentum again hits accelerator with PAE acquisition

Amentum in year one of its relaunch as a standalone company went out and acquired DynCorp International. Now in year two, Amentum has set its sights on a second major transaction and this time it's buying PAE.

AT&T wins second shot at $1.6B in FBI telecom work

Rather than fight AT&T's protest of $1.6 billion in network modernization task order awards, the FBI agreed to pull back the awards and re-evaluate proposals.

State Department offers glimpse of $8B IT services contract ahead of industry day

The State Department's industry day for this multiple-award, $8 billion IT services contract is just around the corner and the agency already has an idea of how it wants to divide up the work.

New Lockheed board member fits its 'network effect' strategy

Lockheed Martin's board of directors elects a former AT&T CEO to be the panel's latest member. That means Lockheed looked to the very sector it wants to work with on achieving the company's vision for networked platforms and systems.

Amentum elevates new technical services business lead

Amentum promotes one of its senior vice presidents to lead the company’s technical services business.

Senate funding bill zeros out TMF

It's a familiar story: The House looks to add to the Technology Modernization Fund while the Senate taps the brakes

Anser Advisory makes a deal, creates 650-person firm

With a new private equity backer, Anser Advisory makes an acquisition of its own to create a new 650-employee company.

Introducing the 2021 WT Fast 50

We've released the 2021 Washington Technology Fast 50 that ranks the fastest growing small businesses in the government market and celebrates the depth, diversity and hard work of this group of companies.

Defense tech firm's board adds former Carlyle government market team lead

The board of directors at defense technology company Parry Labs adds a new member who formerly led The Carlyle Group’s government market team.

Trax wins $655M Army testing support award

Trax International wins a $654.8 million contract to support the Army in carrying out broad testing activities.

Who were 2021's top Industry Innovators?

We are happy to announce the winners of the 2021 Industry Innovator Award winners who's creativity and imagination drive better results for their government customers.

Biden's pick to lead DOD's weapons testing wants cyber assessments for commercial cloud systems

The Biden administration's pick to lead the Defense Department's operational testing, Nickolas Guertin, called the department's inability to conduct independent cyber assessments of commercial cloud systems "a severe limitation."