Opinion

Business and life lessons from my mother

Work and life lessons are all around you, especially when your mother had a great mind for business.

Companies

Brightstar Capital creates new mid-sized player

Brightstar Capital Partners' latest acquisition further builds up a company the investment firm acquired less than one year ago.

Companies

New middle-tier company enters the defense market

Pierre Chao-led PCS Mosaic acquires four businesses from ASRC Federal to become a mid-sized company focused on national security and intelligence.

Contracts

CACI wins round one in fight to keep $343M TSA IT contract

CACI International successfully argues the Transportation Security Agency made errors in choosing a competitor to manage IT infrastructure used by airports.

Contracts

Central Command wants to open classified doors to academics

Central Command and the Air Force want a university partner to work on a range of technical challenges. Contractors need to watch this one as a catalyst for new opportunities.

Opinion

Why size matters in the federal market

The largest federal contractors continue to get bigger and that says a lot how the market is evolving and why size continues to matter.

Contracts

Guidehouse challenges NSA contract requirements

The National Security Agency wants help with its human resources operations, but Guidehouse argues that requirements in the solicitation are restricting competition.

Opinion

Protests keep nagging at CIO-SP4

The National Institutes of Health's flagship IT contract faces new challenges from bidders angry about the number of revisions the agency made during the bidding process.

Companies

SAIC says it's big enough for any competition

Even at $7.4 billion in annual revenue, Science Applications International Corp. faces investors' questions of whether it is big enough to compete for large enterprise IT contracts.

Contracts

General Dynamics raises objections over $11B DOD IT award

General Dynamics IT is challenging Leidos' win of an $11.5 billion contract to consolidate IT services across all of the Defense Department's administrative and support agencies.

Contracts

Army voices tech challenges as strategy shifts to near-peer adversaries

The ongoing shift away from the war on terrorism has the Army facing new technology challenges, so the service branch wants industry's help in bridging gaps it needs to close.

Contracts

Joint venture resurrects protest of $300M DHS contract

HeiTech-PAE saw an earlier protest rejected as premature but is back now complaining that the Homeland Security Department did exactly as feared -- pick someone else for a $300 million contract.

Companies

Robbins Gioia hires new CEO

Retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Wald joined the program management consulting firm earlier this year as its next chief executive.

Opinion

What COVID-19 taught me about cybersecurity

How COVID-19 risks are mitigated parallels how to approach cybersecurity and there's a lesson to be learned there about communications, specifically how effective cybersecurity conversations go beyond network administrators and other technology experts.

Contracts

MetTel secures Marine Corps telecommunications recompete

MetTel has won a chance to expand the connectivity services it provides to the Marine Corps' recruiting arm under a $58 million EIS task order.

Contracts

Deloitte protest pushes Army to reset energy support contract

Deloitte and Booz Allen Hamilton are battling to help the Army Corps of Engineers manage energy initiatives and a protest has knocked the competition back to square one.

Companies

Hawk Carlisle to step down from NDIA leadership

Retired Air Force Gen. Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle is stepping down as president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association: one of the major trade associations representing government contractors.

Contracts

Space Force starts work on IT support contract in Hawaii

Want to work from a remote mountain top in the Pacific Ocean region? Space Force might just have the contract for you.

Contracts

Denied protest offers lessons about hiring former feds

Important questions about hiring former government officials are raised in this lost protest over a $2.5 billion NASA enterprise IT contract, which all parties made reasonable arguments in.

Opinion

Is it time to rework set-asides for Alaska Native Corporations?

Alaska Native Corporations and tribally-owned small businesses deserve special consideration in contracting. But given their size and resources, is it fair that they compete against other types of small businesses?