Agency spending forecasts offer mixed bag

The Professional Services Council's annual scorecard on agency business forecasts offer a chance for industry to vent, but also provide some guidance to government.

QinetiQ restructures US business, names new lead exec

QinetiQ doubled the size of its U.S. footprint last year through an acquisition and has named a new executive to lead that business in conjunction with a reorganization.

DLH appoints new growth chief, operating unit exec

Health IT firm DLH hires both a new chief growth officer and president to lead its public health and life sciences operating unit.

MITRE stands up new R&D org

MITRE places all of its research-and-development functions into a single organization and promotes one of its senior executives to lead it.

Navy, Marines look for more virtual training

With recruits are under restricted movement orders to reduce the spread of COVID-19 , the Navy and Marine Corps are using a distributed learning environment where lessons to recruits are pushed to wireless devices.

Will COVID-19 trigger 'act of God' contract provisions?

Now is the time for subcontractors to review the obscure contract provision better known as the "force majeure" clause.

Brillient tapped for USDA records work

Brillient Corp. will help the Agriculture Department digitize paper records and deploy a new electronic record management system.

Arlington Capital teams with management on new deal

Arlington Capital adds J&J Worldwide Services to its portfolio in a deal that includes a partnership with the company's management team.

MicroTech pushes back after lost Space Force contract

MicroTech is arguing it wasn't treated fairly in a competition to support the new Space Force.

COVID-19 bringing permanent changes to company culture

COVID-19 is causing a fundamental shift in how Americans work and while some changes to corporate culture will be temporary, others will be more permanent and in ways we do not fully understand yet.

Mission Essential combines 2 intell units, hires new exec

Mission Essential Group consolidates its intelligence community business units and appoints a former General Dynamics IT executive to lead that single organization.

Dovel's MSC subsidiary appoints new division lead

Dovel Technologies' MSC subsidiary adds a new senior vice president to help steer its technology strategy for scientific research and public health programs.

IFAS recruits CACI, EDS vet as chief growth officer

Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions adds a nearly three-decade government market veteran formerly of CACI and EDS as chief growth and delivery officer.

How DOD's executive exodus could affect tech modernization

Back-to-back resignations raise concerns about how things will be run without permanent leadership in key areas from policy to tech development.

Software firm closes seed funding round to further government tech search tool

Arlington, Virginia-based Second Front Systems closes a seed funding round from investors to support the continued development of its flagship platform used by government agencies to search for commercially-available technologies.

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Where to start and how to go forward with CMMC preparation

The new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification will present a series of challenges to contractors that make up the Defense Industrial Base supply chain and there are some steps to start getting ready and for what comes after that prep work.

Defense CEOs ask White House, Pentagon to push for aid in next stimulus bill

A group of defense industry chief executives ask the White House and Pentagon to push for additional stimulus funds in the next round of coronavirus economic relief legislation.

Novetta adds new solutions exec

Novetta brings onboard a 17-year government market veteran and former CACI International executive to the solutions leadership team.

Axiologic appoints new CTO

Axiologic Systems hires an almost three-decade market veteran to be the company's new chief technology officer.

Parsons appoints new cyber business development leader

Parsons Corp. adds 16-year intelligence market veteran Michael McKloskey as a vice president of business development.