Salient Federal wins $44M task order to support Saudi C4ISR

Salient Federal Solutions has won a $44 million contract to provide training and support services to the Royal Saudi Naval Forces.

TSA releases RFP for 8-year, $70m IDIQ for employee assessment system

The Transportation Security Administration released a request for proposals June 19 for an eight-year, $70 million contract to create and host an IT-based catalog for assessing employees for various positions throughout the agency.

Deb Alderson's greatest lesson: Never give up

Sotera Defense Solutions president and CEO Deb Alderson shares advice and insights from the rocky path her career has followed, including being let go by one of the biggest contractors in the market. Despite the ups and downs, she never gave up.

Top 100: IBM strategy puts focus on cloud, analytics, mobility

IBM's federal business is focusing on opportunities around cloud computing, analytics and mobility because that's where its customers want to go.

Opinion

7 questions to answer when making bid, no bid decisions

One of the best ways to improve your win-rate is improving how you decide which contracts to bid on and which to walk away from. Here's how.

Top 100: Tech changes feed Verizon's move beyond tradition

Verizon has been quickly adapting as new technologies around cloud computing and connectivity offer new opportunities for the company to capture business in the federal market.

GD challenges SAIC DISA award

General Dynamics is arguing that it should have won a $38.8 million DISA contract for satellite support, and not SAIC, because the GD bid was lower.

Lockheed wins $22.4M contract to continue support of Aegis weapon system

Lockheed Martin has won a $22.4 million contract with the Navy to continue to sustain and provide support services for the Aegis Weapon System.

Top 100: AT&T leader sees mobility driving their future

AT&T Government President Kay Kapoor describes how the company's network and the demand for mobility is driving opportunities for the company in the federal market.

Top 100: Market clarity aids BAE Systems strategic focus

As the defense market has become more predictable, BAE Systems sees its opportunities around mission support, special operations and mission support, but not services.

Opinion

The forgotten value of marketing and M&As

Too often, the value of marketing is overlooked as companies conduct due diligence for acquisitions, but forgetting the value of marketing in its many forms increases the likelihood of a deal that never lives up to its promise.

What 5 trends are driving a new digital economy?

Accenture has identified five emerging trends that reflect the impact that technologies such as social, mobile, analytics and cloud are having on digital businesses and governments.

GDIT wins $43.5M contract to support CMS drug program

General Dynamics Information Technology has won a $43.5 million contract to continue supporting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Retiree Drug Subsidy program.

Odyssey Systems Consulting nabs $37M systems engineering contract

Odyssey Systems Consulting has won a $37 million contract to provide the Air Force with technical support services.

DCCA wins $24M contract for EHR adoption program

Data Computer Corp. of America has won a $24 million contract to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ National Level Repository.

Top 100: CACI sees Six3 deal paying off in new business

CACI International is seeing the fruits of its $820 million acquisition of Six3 Systems pay off with new wins and expanded capabilities that target growth areas in the government market.

Cloud problems need to be addressed now to clear way for future

Cloud adoption has come with its problems, and these problems need to be solved so that cloud can both make agencies more agile and ring in emerging technologies like the Internet of Things.

New survey open for 2nd Contractor Confidence Index

We've launched the second survey for our quarterly series that tracks the ups and downs of the federal market and measures the confidence of government contractors.

Defense agencies desire cloud but unsure of budget

Defense Department agencies would like to move 57 percent of their applications to the cloud by 2020 but only think budgets will allow 24 percent of these applications to make the transition, according to a new research eport.

QTS Realty Trust completes Carpathia acquisition

QTS Realty Trust has completed its $326 million acquisition of Carpathia in a deal that brings a number of authorizations of operate (ATOs) with civilian and defense agencies to QTS.