Companies

ARES wins $226M safety support recompete

The company will take over a program involving two of NASA's main scientific spacecraft and instrument development teams.

Companies

PCI Federal adds tech capabilities via acquisition

The acquisition of SuprTEK brings digital transformation, cyber and other related skills to PCI Federal.

Opinion

Proactive responses to termination for convenience or stop-work orders

Jeremy Burkhart, a partner at Holland & Knight, outlines a few ways contractors can respond when the customer tells them a project is either on pause or will not continue.

Opinion

New tariffs spark industry shake-up for GovCon

Jeremy Doochin of GovSignals, lays out these three choices government contractors face: hold steady, retreat, or look for opportunities to seize.

Contracts

DOGE guts HHS small business office in reorg effort

Only the OSDBU executive director remains to advocate for small businesses at the Department of Health and Human Services, which obligated $39 billion in contracts last year.

Companies

HawkEye 360 brings in Probert to lead US government biz

The 10-year-old satellite operator is pushing to increase its footprint across defense and intelligence agencies.

Contracts

GSA eyes 399 more small business awards for OASIS+

The General Services Administration identifies who it wants to join the 8(a), service-disabled/veteran-owned and woman-owned small business portions for the professional services vehicle.

Companies

Washington Harbour Partners buys stake in debris-tracking satellite firm

The investment is the second announced within a week for Turion Space, which also builds satellites that can improve space-domain awareness.

Podcasts

WT 360: We unpack the 2024 M&A roundup and GovCon’s ongoing adjustment to Trump 2.0

Nick and Ross start out by going over the newest edition of our annual report that catalogs merger-and-acquisition activity, then shift their discussion to how the new administration still leaves contractors guessing roughly 11 weeks in.

Companies

Industry layoffs mount as cancelled contracts and DOGE efforts take hold

Just shy of 2,500 workers in Maryland and Virginia are poised to lose their jobs as 13 companies issue mass layoff notice.

Contracts

GSA makes two more batches of OASIS+ awards

The government-wide professional services vehicle now has 698 unrestricted primes and 1,563 general small business track winners with more to come.

Companies

A baker's dozen corporate leadership moves to note as spring arrives

This new listing of key hires and promotions across the government market also coincides with the ending of 2025's first quarter.

Contracts

Energy selects 16 sites for AI data center construction, new energy development

The Department of Energy identified 16 locations on its own land to build the new infrastructure.

Companies

How consulting firms acquire to iterate, and sometimes reinvent themselves

The intersection of consulting, integration and implementation is on full display when looking at our 2024 roundup of mergers and acquisitions. So too are the preceding years.

Companies

Venture investing is part of the M&A conversation too

These “deals of a different stripe” to own part of a company require the same business muscles as acquisitions: belief in a business and a willingness to put down money in support of that belief.

Opinion

To survive the new GovCon environment, your people are your ultimate competitive edge

Five critical blind spots that threaten you contracts, and how to transform your team before it is too late, according to BD expert Nic Coppings.

Contracts

Army wraps up awards for $379M training support contract

The Live Training Ranges and Combat Training Centers contract covers continues tech refreshments and other modernization work to aid in the readiness of soldiers.

Companies

The public company acquirer remains a unicorn in the M&A action

While in the minority, this group of serial buyers requires a different sort of attention and conversation given that they are publicly-traded and have to explain it all.

Contracts

Spending and workforce cuts will harm VA’s modernization work, Democrats say

Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said cuts across VA are forcing the department “to decide between keeping staff on the floor, and investing in expensive equipment that may sit idle without enough personnel to operate it.”

Contracts

VA names 9 medical facilities that will receive new EHR in 2026

The department said it plans to deploy the modernized electronic health record at a total of 13 sites next year following a pause on most rollouts of the software that was instituted in April 2023.