Companies
Finance, growth and tech leadership moves across the market
Our newest compilation of key hires and promotions features a trio of former government leaders taking up new private sector roles.
Contracts
The Army’s giant data deal with Palantir is a harbinger: service CIO
The 10-year, up-to-$10 billion deal is part of a larger effort to consolidate IT contracts and save money, Leonel Garciga told reporters.
Podcasts
WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on reindustrialization and its underlying ecosystem
Lauren Williams, our Defense One colleague and a senior editor there, jumps in to help connect some dots between the defense industrial base and the U.S.’ efforts to regain global manufacturing leadership.
Contracts
Protests continue for $10B State enterprise IT vehicle
Challenges from two companies remain active as the State Department works to field its main enterprise IT services vehicle.
Companies
Piper Sandler to acquire G Squared Capital Partners
Minneapolis-headquartered Piper Sandler views the GovCon landscape as a path for expanding its technology investment banking practice.
Contracts
V2X wins $4.3B T-6 logistics contract
The contract covers support of 739 total planes across the Air Force, Army and Navy.
Contracts
Trump nominates financial executive to be GSA administrator
The nominee, Ed Forst, is a longtime Goldman Sachs alum.
Contracts
Palantir signs $10B enterprise agreement with Army
The deal consolidates 75 contracts and seeks to drive more data analysis capabilities powered by artificial intelligence.
Companies
SBA revokes USAID’s 8(a) contracting authority in wake of bribery scandal
The Small Business Administration is also auditing the government's entire 8(a) contracting program, which could impact the broader GovCon ecosystem.
Contracts
SAIC loses protest over $927M incumbent Air Force contract
The Air Force gets backing in its decision to eliminate company from the competition for a modeling-and-simulation contract based on self-scoring methodology.
Contracts
Teledyne subsidiary wins $127M Navy health IT recompete
Teledyne Brown Engineering helps the Naval Health Research Center develop and iterate software for use in modeling care flow and larger-scale operations.
Contracts
Docusign discounts prices on software across government until 2027
The discounts cover two key software lines for all federal agencies.
Companies
SAIC, Google form strategic alliance
The five-year agreement includes greater use of Google's distributed cloud offering as well as certifying 1,000 SAIC employees on the tech giant's products.
Companies
Palo Alto seeks identity security growth in $25B CyberArk acquisition
Palo Alto sees the increasing use of artificial intelligence as driving demand for cybersecurity platforms that span network and identity security.
Companies
Northrop unveils first cohort for autonomous flight tech program
Beacon is also a way for the blue chip defense hardware maker to share what it has learned over the years about autonomous flight with other companies.
Companies
Dropzone AI closes $37M Series B round
In-Q-Tel is continuing its backing of the two-year-old startup, which is pushing an approach of blending agentic artificial intelligence functions and cyber.
Opinion
What you can do when your contracts stall
Procurement delays can signal a broader shift in agency risk appetite and political oversight. Smart vendors are repositioning their approach to match new priorities around defensibility and execution certainty, writes Mac Lui, CEO of Vultron.
Contracts
Protester seeks second chance at $1.5B Microsoft support contract
CIYIS claims the Navy did not follow the solicitation when it evaluated and rejected its proposal to be part of the Microsoft Enterprise Services program.
Contracts
Space Force choose 5 for $4B secure communications contract
The service branch is seeking to incorporate commercial solutions into its hybrid architecture that includes purpose-built satellites.
Contracts