Companies

AI and rockets mark the week's space investments

The venture capital arms of Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin are among those involved in the deals.

Contracts

ManTech, Peraton challenge $245M cyber warfare award to Booz Allen

Both protesters are taking issue with how the Army evaluated proposals to support the Joint Common Access Platform.

Contracts

DOD keeps all incumbents for $1.5B CIO IT recompete

The Defense Department uses the contract to acquire support for its information enterprise and IT management functions.

Contracts

DOD's personnel info agency awards $1.5B IT modernization pact

The Defense Manpower Data Center is centering this effort around software development and IT security with a heavy leaning on cloud.

Top 100

TOP 100: Booz Allen rides wave of tech-driven growth

Chief Financial Officer Matt Calderone credits the company's VoLT strategy and workforce transformation efforts for its best financial year since the 2010 initial public offering.

Companies

Booz Allen names new chief technology officer

William Vass joins the company from Amazon Web Services. He will focus on AI, cyber, software and data-centric capabilities as the successor to the retiring Susan Penfield.

Companies

Booz Allen acquires PAR Government Systems for $95M

PAR also found a buyer for its Rome Research Corp. subsidiary, which marks a full exit from government work and start of a complete focus on the core restaurant and retail tech business.

Companies

Digital services and segment leadership moves across the market

A pair of retired Army lieutenant generals enter the private sector, as does a former IRS and Treasury technology leader.

Contracts

DTRA chooses 9 for $4B counter-WMD tech contract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency breaks out the awards in pools respectively focused on technology, operations and targeting.

Companies

Booz Allen's AI outlook centers on 'vertical scaling'

In talking with Wall Street, CEO Horacio Rozanski describes the direction he sees federal agencies headed in as they adopt artificial intelligence technologies.

Contracts

FAA chooses 14 for $2.4B IT contract vehicle

Awardees will compete for application and technology modernization work at Federal Aviation Administration facilities across the U.S.

Companies

Artificial intelligence can absolutely help in the data challenge, but standards are key

At our Power Breakfast focused on the Veterans Affairs Department, a panel of industry executives explain both the promise of using automation to sift through data and the degree of difficulty in doing so.

Contracts

Booz Allen challenges VA award that went to Guidehouse

The companies are competing for a Veterans Affairs Department contract to optimize how VA carries out health care services.

Contracts

IRS lays out $512M case management IT recompete plan

A draft performance work statement is ready for industry to read through and weigh in on.

Contracts

DHS extends civilian network cyber contracts

This family of procurements known as CDM DEFEND will continue on for three more years.

Contracts

Agriculture chooses three dozen for cloud integration pacts

This is the initial batch of awards for Stratus, a centralized mechanism to further drive cloud computing adoption across the department.

Contracts

Energy chooses 14 companies for $900M data collection contract

Awardees will work with the agency responsible for compiling statistics and analysis on all aspects of energy for the federal government.

Contracts

DLA chooses 10 for $92.5M transformation support pact

The Defense Logistics Agency will use this blanket purchase agreement to acquire support for managing its programs.

Companies

Operations, health and finance mark the week in exec movement

Plus a former House Armed Services Committee chairman joins the board of directors at one of the market's largest companies.

Contracts

Booz Allen wins $550M Energy R&D support recompete

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy first chose Booz Allen Hamilton for the work in 2012.