Family PE firm acquires another GovCon company

McNally Capital has acquired Orbis Operations in another deal that to build the private equity investor's federal market portfolio.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Cubic bidding war highlights the value of certainty over price

The sale of Cubic Corp. turned into a bidding war but the story of how Veritas Capital and its hedge fund partner finally won out highlights how certainty over the closing can outweigh a higher price.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Biden's $1.5 trillion 2022 budget plan tilts spending toward civilian agencies

The administration is adding money to multiple tech modernization programs and removing the Overseas Contingency Account from the Defense Department request and folding in warfighting funds into the base budget.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

DOD bets big on financial data to improve business performance

The Defense Department is betting that insights from its financial data will help improve its business operations, from optimizing the workforce to divesting of legacy systems.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

How SAIC ran the recompete table with a critical Army customer

Science Applications International Corp. is coming off what one executive called a "super-cycle" of recompetes, all with the same customer and with a combined ceiling of over $8 billion. Here is a glimpse into how SAIC won them all.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Incumbency not enough for CACI to win $200M Navy contract

CACI International lost a tight battle with Booz Allen Hamilton for a $200 million Navy contract despite being a highly-rated incumbent.

  • By Nick Wakeman

ECS appoints new business development lead from within

ECS names one of its own executives as the company's next vice president of business development.

  • By Washington Technology staff

BlueHalo makes pair of leadership hires

BlueHalo makes a pair of executive hires for its merger-and-acquisition and human capital functions.

  • By Washington Technology staff
Opinion

Workplace authenticity can be a woman's best friend

Women have struggled to strike the right work-life balance and the pandemic has only made it worse. SAIC executive Nyla Beth Gawel writes that should embrace authenticity and not be afraid to ask their employers for what they need.

  • By Nyla Beth Gawel

Talent, future of (tele)work underpin GDIT's strategy

The head of General Dynamics' IT services segment calls out the future of work post-pandemic and specifically telework as directly linked to winning the talent fight and helping agencies with their innovation needs.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Ensco makes deal for aerospace, national security expansion

Ensco makes an acquisition to bolster its aerospace and national security market footprint, plus add a new proprietary cloud-based tool in use among many customers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Is acquisition innovation going mainstream?

New nominees at the Defense Department and General Services Administration give an early indication that the new administration places a high value on innovation in the way the government buys and how it delivers services.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SAIC books another big win with Army customer

Science Applications International Corp. confirms its fourth in a series of contract wins with the same customer to provide engineering services around aviation, modeling and simulation and the testing of embedded systems.

  • By Nick Wakeman

New advisory council forms to collect industry CMMC feedback

The new organization will eventually produce regular public reports and address common industry concerns like the cost of implementation.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Biden taps 18F veteran Robin Carnahan to lead GSA

Robin Carnahan, formerly Missouri's secretary of state and the lead of state and local government practice at 18F, is the Biden administration's pick to lead the General Services Administration.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Air Force tech accelerator expands research on security for 5G devices

The Air Force's AFWERX innovation group focused on technology acceleration has tapped Phosphorus Cybersecurity to explore ways of adapting its Internet of Things products to 5G-enabled devices.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Elbit Systems' U.S. arm completes $380M Sparton buy

Elbit Systems' U.S. business completes the $380 million acquisition of Sparton Corp., which will operate in a different structure within its new home.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Biden taps DIU head for top Pentagon acquisition post

President Joe Biden nominates three for senior defense posts, including Michael Brown, the head of Defense Innovation Unit.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

IBM dinged for piecemeal approach to Army protest

IBM's protest of a nearly $800 million Army enterprise resource planning contract was dismissed as untimely because the company was raised its challenges in a piecemeal fashion. The Government Accountability Office says that approach is a big no-no.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Carlson's successor at AWS retains her mandate for growth, long-term partnerships

Teresa Carlson, the architect and face of Amazon's public sector cloud business, is headed for Splunk as her AWS successor picks up the mandate for growth and relationships built to last.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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