Huntington Ingalls touts services as its growth engine

Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries made a $1 billion bet on services last year and is starting to see a return with an early win and an upcoming unmanned opportunity.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force adds Boeing to potential $409M air platform research contract

The Air Force makes Boeing company number five with a position on a potential seven-year, $409 million platform and engine development research contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DARPA chooses 3 to battle unmanned aircraft

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicks off a program to develop defenses against small unmanned aircraft with three initial contract awards.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos sees success with Lockheed integration

Leidos sees success in its efforts to integrate the heritage Leidos with the Lockheed Martin IT business it merged with last year. And Wall Street is welcoming the news.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Mid-tier merger: DSA lands "good find" in PPC

Data Systems Analysts had looked "for a long time" to acquire. With legacy IT modernization in mind, it views Project Performance Company as a "good find."

  • By Ross Wilkers

Hidden opportunities: Research start-up puts focus on SBIR, OTA funds

A new research firm looks to connect small businesses with the billions available through SBIR and Other Transaction Authority funds.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DXC bid for CDC IT contract undone by higher price

DXC had a higher score on its technical solution but its higher price led CDC to pick NTT Data for its IT and data center support work.

  • By Nick Wakeman

General Dynamics elevates Gilliland to IT services division president

General Dynamics moves 12-year veteran Amy Gilliland up to the president role for the defense contractor's IT services division.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Work to be done before EIS winners see task orders

Federal agencies and the 10 contract awardees still have work to do before taking advantage of GSA's next-generation telecommunications contract.

  • By Mark Rockwell
Opinion

Cyber requirements growing for company boards

Cybersecurity requirements for corporate boards are growing as there is a push for senior leaders to understand the cyber risks they face. Here are three strategies you should consider.

  • By Pedro Abreu

Senate confirms Lord as DOD acquisition leader

The Senate confirms former Textron executive Ellen Lord as the Defense Department's lead acquisition official to fill one of many vacancies closely watched by the contracting community.

  • By Ross Wilkers

ThreatQuotient hires Symantec vet Schumm as sales SVP

Cyber services company ThreatQuotient adds former Symantec public sector leader Gigi Schumm as senior vice president of worldwide sales.

  • By Ross Wilkers

ICF books potential $93M Army Research Lab cyber research contract

ICF receives a sole-source contract worth up to $93 million to help the Army Research Laboratory conduct defense cyber research.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GSA chooses 10 for $50B EIS telecom contract

Ten companies have won spots on GSA's potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract to supply the government with telecom services and beyond.

  • By Nick Wakeman

What we know about the new EIS winners

The winners of the $50 billion EIS contract include some very familiar names but also a few companies that will surprise you. Here's what we know so far.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Constellis buys Omniplex for investigation, intelligence community footprints

Security services outfit Constellis picks up Omniplex World Services to combine technology and consulting work and grow in the intelligence community.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DARPA hands down $200M technology development support contract

Three companies will vie for technology development support work to DARPA under a five-year, $200 million contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers

PAE brings aboard Leidos, Parsons vet Strampach to BD leadership role

PAE hires former Leidos executive and three-decade sector veteran Andy Strampach to lead business development for the national security solutions unit.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Rise of classified revenues creates transparency challenge

As dollars from classified contracts rise, publicly traded government contractors are saying they can't offer the same level of insight to investors and others as they can with other revenue streams.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DHS defends FLASH, looks to lessons learned

Homeland Security Department officials are defending the cancelled FLASH procurement but are looking to learn from their mistakes.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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