Market Newcomer

Belcan makes three deals to create a federal platform.

Top Deal: ESC Federal buys InfoReliance

ECS Federal moves higher into the middle tier with InfoReliance deal.

Best Private Equity Deal

Arlington Capital continues its investments in the federal market with the purchase of Xebec.

Best Divestiture

Harris Corp. sells its IT services business and helps birth Peraton, a new platform for the federal market.

Best merger of equals

TeraThink and Dominion Consulting pull off a rare merger of equals.

HIG Capital buys NCI and WBB

Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital makes its first deals in the federal market with NCI and WBB.

TOP DEAL: Salient CRGT buys Information Innovators Inc.

Salient CRGT buys Triple-I to add scale and bulk up health IT offerings.

Who made the year's best deals?

We tracked 103 mergers and acquisitions during 2017. Here are our picks for the best deals including the best dealmaker, newcomer and merger of equals.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Online buying needs help from Congress

Legislation is needed to raise the ceiling on micropurchases and bring more competition to online purchasing, officials say.

  • By Mark Rockwell

Lockheed snatches $3.5B Army training device recompete

Lockheed Martin scores a $3.5 billion recompete contract win to supply training aids, devices and simulation tools for the Army.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Alion books $73M Navy unmanned tech prototype contract

Alion Science and Technology receives a $73 million contract to help the Navy develop prototype technologies for use on unmanned platforms.

Acquisition reform requires cultural change, Air Force commander says

To modernize procurement, the Defense Department needs more than creative work arounds such as OTA. It needs to change the culture, says The Air Force materiel commander.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Alliant 2 SB moves on to protest phase

The $15 billion Alliant 2 Small Business contract is getting hit with its first set of protests now that GSA has made the awards. Are more coming?

  • By Nick Wakeman

General Dynamics clears antitrust hurdle for CSRA deal

General Dynamics' pending buy of CSRA can move forward after the mandated federal antitrust review waiting period ends.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos wins $472M VA IT modernization job

Leidos takes a $472 million task order to help Veterans Affairs in its IT modernization efforts through work on data centers and cloud services.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Boeing's VC arm makes new autonomous tech investment

Boeing’s venture capital arm invests in an unmanned aircraft radar developer to further integrate autonomous vehicles safely into civilian airspace.

4 firms tapped by GSA to launch modernization centers of excellence

Four companies have been picked by the General Services Administration to help establish best practices for IT modernization efforts.

  • By Nick Wakeman

NTT Data battles on for $208M Education IT contract

NTT Data has filed another bid protest after losing a $208 million incumbent contract to CSRA, claiming there are still conflict of interest issues to resolve.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Harris, LGS to share in $334M NOAA anti-interference tech contract

Harris Corp. and LGS Innovations will share in a $334.7 million contract to build interference monitoring technologies for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Labor starts planning for IT services BPAs

The Labor Department has kicked off the market research phase for a series of five-year BPAs for a range of IT professional services and financial management services.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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