Coast Guard planning cloud transition contract

The Coast Guard is planning a contract to help it buy a variety of services that will support the transition to a cloud environment.

New DOD cloud email award expected in early 2020

A new award for the Defense Department's commercial cloud email contract could come in late January or early February.

SAIC focuses on revenue growth as Engility integration nears finish line

Science Applications International Corp. has largely completed the integration of Engility almost one year on. Now the focus is on organic revenue growth.

E3/Sentinel closes another digital-focused acquisition

E/3 Sentinel continues its strategy to move up the middle market's food chain with another acquisition focused on digital and analytics-related services for government agencies.

Navy planning quarterly tech demo events

The Naval Postgraduate School is planning quarterly events for companies to come and demonstrate emerging technologies around automation, unmanned systems and cybersecurity.

8(a) on-ramp begins for government's main human capital vehicle

Small businesses with the 8(a) designation have been told to get their bids ready for an on-ramp for the federal government's main contract vehicle for support of human capital initiatives.

Leidos clears major DOE recompete

Through a joint venture, Leidos clears one of its most significant recompete challenges of the year and will keep a major Energy Department contract through a joint venture.

Sellers' expectations high in hot M&A market and public companies don't like it

The government market's merger-and-acquisition landscape continues to run hot and so are what sellers hope to fetch. Public companies are pointing to those high expectations as a reason for not going forward with deals.

Drone Aviation joins group pushing new 5G capabilities

Drone Aviation, formerly led by the late Jay Nussbaum, is merging into a consortium of companies building capabilities around the emerging 5G market.

Tech Data opens up on DLT deal

Tech Data will leave the public markets in the first half of next year but will have to report its financial results until then, including the price it paid for DLT Solutions.

Last two EIS vendors expect ATOs by end of year

GSA could have all nine contractors for its big telecommunications contract equipped with the authority to provide services by year’s end.

ACT I books $50M Army ERP system support order

ACT I takes in a $50 million task order to help the Army run an enterprise resource planning system.

Leidos views itself as one of the FAA's three major contractors but eyes more runway

Leidos is touting its credentials with the Federal Aviation Administration as an anchor for more civilian growth, just as that agency gets ready to rebid a major IT and telecommunications contract held by the newly-merged L3Harris Technologies.

Alion adds three-decade vet Stirtzinger

Alion Science and Technology adds to its leadership team Todd Stirtzinger, a three-decade market veteran formerly of L3Harris Technologies.

Inside the Army's electronic warfare efforts

The Army is developing new tools for testing and hardening battlefield systems.

How DARPA's Mosaic program could disrupt federal contracting

DARPA is working on a different approach for deploying battlefield capabilities and it just might drive changes in how the military buys technology.

Accenture putting up a fight after losing Healthcare.gov contract

Accenture has lost the recompete of the Healthcare.gov portal contract to Deloitte and is now protesting that decision.

MCR continues Air Force protest fight

Despite a successful bid protest, MCR has again lost an Air Force contract to a competitor and is not giving up the fight for it.

AWS CEO weighs in on Trump's JEDI impact

Amazon Web Services' court filings have already shown that it believes President Trump biased the competition against AWS, whose CEO Andy Jassy is arguing that Trump's influence was unavoidable and wrong.

Small-business advice worth repeating

Those charged with forming partnerships with small businesses see some of the same mistakes made on repeat. Here's their advice on how to form the best partnerships with prime contractors.