Sizing up the defense IT market for fiscal 2018

If the promises of more defense spending come true, that bodes well for opportunities in military IT. Here's where immixGroup analysts see the growth.

DISA details $96M IT IDIQ award schedule

DISA details its intended timeline to award a five-year, $95.8 million contract for IT services outside the continental U.S.

MetTel-Raytheon alliance targets EIS opportunities

MetTel and Raytheon have formed an alliance to add more cybersecurity offerings to MetTel's market strategy for the GSA EIS contract.

Will new NDAA make protests worse, not better?

Provisions in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act might complicate the bid protest process and create unintended consequences for DOD and contractors.

New competitors will push traditional defense players

Defense opportunities are expected to increase, which means that the large primes should brace themselves for a new pool of competitors.

Protests begin over DISA Encore III awards

Four companies have filed protests in the wake of DISA's Encore III awards. None are incumbents from Encore II who failed to make the cut.

DARPA taps BAE to create space tech testbed

BAE Systems' U.S. arm gets tasked by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a space technology testbed under a potential $12.8 million contract.

CSRA retains helicopter support work

CSRA will continue to support the Navy and Foreign Military Sales of the H-60 Seahawk helicopter by providing technology and system updates.

Seller's perspective: Factors to weigh and consider

Much of the focus is on buyers but just as crucial is the seller's perspective and the factors to weigh when making a deal.

Digital government guru Godbout moves to TechFlow

Greg Godbout, a co-founder of the GSA 18F unit and former CTO at the EPA, is taking his passion for government reinvention to a new venue.

HIG extends government footprint with WBB acquisition

Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital acquires defense consulting contractor WBB in the investment group's second major government market deal this year including NCI Inc.

HHS IG wants better analysis of department data

The HHS inspector general is developing a contract to improve the analytics tools it has for looking at department data.

SOSi hires KeyW, Sotera vet Cook as BD lead

SOS International hires former KeyW and Sotera Defense Solutions executive Michele Cook to lead business development functions.

LookingGlass adds government vets Taxay, Haas

Threat intelligence company LookingGlass Cyber Solutions appoints government veterans Michael Taxay and Jeremy Haas to its executive team.

Subcontractor deal nets Salient CRGT $5M in analytics work

Salient CRGT will provide data analytics support to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under a $5 million subcontract.

What conference agendas say about market trends

Want to know what is hot in today's market? Take a look at conference agendas. The ImmixGroup Government Sales Summit sees a future that will be shaped by the cloud, the internet of Things and artificial intelligence. Also don't forget about cyber and IT modernization.

Ultra Electronics delays Sparton acquisition timeline

The process for Ultra Electronics' acquisition of Sparton Corp. is being prolonged as the Justice Department's review over the deal is delayed.

DEA seeks system for tracking drug analysis work

The Drug Enforcement Agency wants a commercial product to help it track the forensic work done in its labs.

CSRA wins $158M VA digital record order

CSRA takes in a three-year, $158 million Veterans Affairs task order to turn 7 million health records into a digital format.

Northrop gets transparent about classified revenues, somewhat

Northrop Grumman is one of several examples of public companies with growing classified work that it just can't talk about. But here is what they can tell us.