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