Top 100

TOP 100: How Leidos runs its BD function

For this Q&A, Leidos' business development leader takes us inside the company's wins and how it makes those crucial decisions of when to and not to bid.

Contracts

BAE's $12B win facing protests

Two competitors are challenging how the Air Force evaluated bids for this nuclear deterrent support contract.

Companies

Gunnison's board adds former Novetta finance chief

The nearly three-decade federal market veteran has been involved in more than 40 merger-and-acquisition transactions.

Companies

Batsakis, Speigel make their third deal and launch new brand

With the acquisition of Groundswell, they have created a new mid-tier company of the same name that integrates their two previous deals and sets the stage for more.

Companies

Serco names new leader for U.S. business

Dave Dacquino announces his retirement with defense business leader Tom Watson set to take over as CEO of Serco Inc.

Companies

Commercial tech cannot be ignored in the federal market

Technologies made in and for the commercial markets are changing the models for contracts with customers and partnerships with firms in other industries, as a roundtable of GovCon executives has told us.

Contracts

Veterans Affairs looks to upgrade benefit management systems

Current systems don’t support analytics techniques such as data mining, automation and artificial intelligence.

Companies

Tom Hewitt dies at age 83

The industry pioneer is credited with breaking down communication barriers between companies and government agencies in an era when speaking with each other was impossible.

Companies

Justice seeks to stop Booz Allen's Everwatch acquisition

The department's antitrust lawsuit says the transaction unfairly eliminates competition for providing signals intelligence modeling and simulation services to the National Security Agency.

Contracts

Unique procurement approach triples weather forecasting power

General Dynamics IT built two new supercomputers for the National Weather Service and is taking on all the risk.

Contracts

Federal court system eyes expanded push to the cloud

The judicial branch wants to speed up its movement of applications and data.

Contracts

Navy to move ahead on $914M aircraft services program

The service branch's choice of Vertex Aerospace has been upheld after two bid protests.

Contracts

Protest ruling details why DISA chose Leidos for $11B IT contract

The Government Accountability Office highlights some of General Dynamics' own business decisions in structuring its bid.

Top 100

TOP 100: Accenture again chooses change with Novetta acquisition

Company No. 13 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is taking another opportunity to challenge the way it does business.

Companies

How and where newcomers are entering the market

GovTribe's Market Disruptor Report shows the pace of companies winning their first federal prime contract is picking up in 2022 compared to the end of last year.

Contracts

AECOM challenging $215M no-compete contract

The Health and Human Services Department used an exception in procurement rules that allows agencies to award certain contracts without competition.

Opinion

The James Webb telescope can teach us more than just space

Project management lessons from this program serve as an instruction manual on how to leverage mistakes and mitigate risks.

Contracts

Leidos wins DIA data architecture contract

The Defense Intelligence Agency is seeking to make data more accessible to users and automate time-consuming processes.

Contracts

Guidehouse scores redo of Secret Service contract

The agency must look into an organizational conflict-of-interest allegation and make a new evaluation.

Contracts

Round 3: Army energy contract hit by yet another protest

The Army Corps of Engineers reworked the solicitation for services related to stable and dependable energy supplies and made a new award, which led to a new challenge from a disappointed bidder.