Small firm picked for $82.8M USCIS info sharing infrastructure contract

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hires a small business to help modernize and roll out an IT infrastructure to enable sharing of information, under an $82.8 million contract.

Northrop hires DHS vet Phyllis Schneck

Northrop Grumman adds former Homeland Security Department cybersecurity lead Phyllis Schneck to the company's leadership team.

Verizon, CenturyLink take large EIS task orders

Verizon and CenturyLink have won each won large EIS task orders from the Social Security Administration.

Brillient Corp. adds former GSA official Burrows

Brillient Corp. appoints General Services Administration official Ed Burrows to lead the company's pursuit of growth in automation-related work for agencies.

Leidos CEO shares insights on his commercial strategy

Government contractors have a poor track record of success in the commercial market but Leidos CEO Roger Krone sees an opening with health IT offerings as long as you recognize how different the markets are.

SAIC keeps role as NGA app store broker

SAIC has won the recompete of an incumbent contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to run the agency's app store for analysts.

Guidehouse lodges pre-award protest of OASIS on-ramp

Something in the amendments to the OASIS on-ramp solicitation doesn't sit right with Guidehouse.

AT&T names new FirstNet lead

AT&T shuffles its executive ranks and as part of that appoints a new leader to steer the FirstNet public safety network's roll out.

Podcasts

How Raytheon's tech business is disrupting itself

In this episode, Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers interviews Raytheon’s Dave Wajsgras about the transformation that is occurring across the defense market and how Raytheon is disrupting itself.

QinetiQ deal marks renewed interest in U.S. market

British defense tech company QinetiQ divested nearly all of its U.S. business five years ago, but is now reinvesting in the American defense market with an acquisition that doubles its size.

CNSI appoints new finance chief

Health care tech outfit CNSI names almost two-decade market veteran David Adams as its next chief financial officer.

BAE's U.S. board adds former Army undersecretary

BAE Systems' U.S. board of directors elects former Army Undersecretary Patrick Murphy as a new member.

Opinion

7 simple steps to a healthy relationship with your subcontractors

Every successful relationship requires honesty, trust, respect and cooperation. Here's how to apply those principles to your subcontractor relationship.

FLIR makes another deal to build its unmanned aerial chops

FLIR Systems continues to carry out its stated strategy to further build unmanned systems capabilities into a core competency.

12 win spots on GSA's COMET contract

Twelve companies were tapped by GSA as primes on COMET contract for IT modernization.

DynCorp prevails in fights for $3.5B in Army contracts

DynCorp International has prevailed in its fights for two Army aviation field and maintenance support contracts worth up to $3.5 billion combined.

FY19 ends with notable DOD contract awards

The final Defense Department daily contracts digest for fiscal year 2019 has the usual assortment of last-minute equipment buys but hidden in the pile are some new awards worth noting.

VT Group makes second M&A deal of 2019

VT Group makes its second acquisition of the year, this time of Delta Resources to grow more of a Navy footprint.

B3 Group takes $686M VA IT upgrade order

B3 Group beats out one other bid for a $686 million task order to support incremental IT upgrades at the Veterans Affairs Department.

Tetra Tech appoints new president

Tetra Tech promotes one of its executive VPs to president of the company amid its ongoing thrust for more federal technology business.