5 win options for port security contract

Five small businesses have won the fourth option year for port security services with the U.S. Navy.

General Dynamics opens space innovation center

EDGE Innovation Center will bring latest advanced technologies and innovation from industry and academia to doorstep of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, General Dynamics says.

Opinion

Is your next BD exec a former journalist?

Some of the same skills that good reporters use are critical for business development executives searching for the next big opportunity.

Big leadership changes mark first half of fiscal 2013

At the half way mark, 2013 has seen a plethora of changes among the senior leadership ranks of some of the largest government contracts. What do you think is behind all of the changes and are more to come?

Amazon-CIA deal triggers plenty of questions

Amazon won a $600 million contract to build a private cloud for the CIA, and with it has come many questions that may go unanswered, starting with how much of a game-changer it is.

Booz Allen wins $315M geospatial intell contract

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a contract to provide research and development subject matter expertise to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

6 questions to drive the LPTA debate

Editor Nick Wakeman shares six questions he plans to ask during a roundtable discussion on lowest price, technically acceptable contracting, the dreaded LPTA. Is he taking the conversation in the right direction?

IBM wins $267M pact to take Ohio to the cloud

The state of Ohio has awarded IBM a contract to help them move their computing center to the cloud.

CACI wins $140M contract with new civilian client

CACI International has won a contract to modernize the IT infrastructure at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

Can you help customers see the cloud more clearly?

If your approach to selling the cloud to government agencies emphasizes cost above all else, you might be missing the real opportunity.

Opinion

Should you follow the Yahoo telecommute policy?

Guest columnist Shirl Jenkins discusses telecommuting and teleworking, and offers three questions your telework policy must answer.

Dewberry names new principal for cloud services

Dewberry has hired Ryan Hughes to bring more cloud expertise to the company.

MacB names new business development exec

MacAulay-Brown has hired John Gorman to help the company support clients in the federal intelligence sector.

Opinion

Never stop your market research or risk the consequences

When a contractor and a customer work together long enough, doing your market research might slip by you but you ignore it at your own peril come recompete time.

SAIC wins $10M anti-submarine surveillance contract

SAIC has won a contract to provide research and development services for an anti-submarine warfare surveillance system for the U.S. Navy

Nearly 250 take Lockheed buyout

Lockheed Martin had nearly 250 mid-level managers take a voluntary buyout as it works to adjust its workforce levels.

Draft RFP out for $10B NIH IT contract

The draft RFP for the $10 billion NIH CIO-CS contract will offer two models for contractors to deliver IT products and services to the government.

CIA's $600M Amazon award heralded as game-changer

Amazon Web Services quietly won a $600 million CIA contract that has everyone talking. Yes, it is a big deal, but is it a game-changer?

Lockheed wins $250M as part of Wyle's NASA team

As part of Wyle's team, Lockheed Martin has won a $250 million contract to assist Wyle with its work under NASA's Human Health and Performance Contract, including work on the Internatioanl Space Station.

Artel expands leadership team with four executive hires

Artel LLC has named four new executives to its leadership team to in areas covering business development, communications, systems integration and network operations.