PSC: Make COVID cost relief provision permanent for contractors

The Professional Services Council says making permanent the COVID-19 relief provision for contractors to recoup some labor costs will come in handy the next time another emergency happens.

PAE sees growth through acquisitions as it navigates the drawdown in Afghanistan

PAE saw strong growth in the last quarter thanks to strategic acquisitions but now it must navigate the impact of the troop drawdowns in Afghanistan.

COVID, acquisitions fuel Maximus' revenue growth

Maximus has seen significant revenue growth in its latest quarter fueled by support of the government's COVID-19 response and what has come from recent acquisitions.

Geospark co-founder returns to CEO post

Geospatial technology company Geospark Analytics appoints one of its co-founders to be CEO again and chart the next phase of growth.

Altamira appoints new business development leader

Altamira Technologies Corp. brings in a new senior vice president of business development nearly six months after a new CEO joined the company.

Opinion

With CMMC certification, slow and steady wins the race

Despite delays in getting the third-party assessors online and the potential for other CMMC delays, there is no reason not to take action. Here are three steps to start right now.

Leidos versus SAIC continues as they fight for $2.5B NASA contract

There appears to be a disagreement among NASA, the companies involved and even the Government Accountability Office over whether to dismiss Science Applications International Corp.'s protest of a $2.5 billion IT infrastructure contract it lost to Leidos.

The talent race will never end, but here's how contractors are talking about it

How these four publicly-traded government technology and professional services companies talk about talent helps explain how the entire market is seeing the same trends.

Lockheed finance chief exits, acting successor named

Lockheed Martin's chief financial officer for the past two years has retired and the company appoints its treasurer to take on those duties as the search begins for a new CFO.

L3Harris declares its post-merger divestiture push as nearly done

L3Harris Technologies sounds just about done with its post-merger divestitures, which should translate to greater focus on the integration and revenue synergy efforts.

Leidos preps for some renewed COVID restrictions amid strong results

Leidos' chief executive tells investors some COVID restrictions are coming here and abroad, but he doesn't expect a return to the same conditions of earlier this year.

How Huntington Ingalls spreads its people & resources across the company

Huntington Ingalls Industries is getting closer to completing its acquisition of Alion Science and Technology, which also should give the buyer's two main shipyards some resources and people to pull from as company executives explained during a media briefing.

IntelliBridge closes second acquisition of 2021

IntelliBridge has closed its second acquisition of 2021 as it builds more capabilities around DevSecOps, data science and analytics.

Peraton books $500M VA cloud infrastructure award

Now that a protest has cleared the books, Peraton is free to start work on an almost $500 million cloud infrastructure contract with the Veterans Affairs Department.

Technica lands $43M Air Force contract for intelligence support

Technica will support a pair of Air Force intelligence operations with program management and sustainment services under a four-year, $43 million contract.

Telos acquisition adds capabilities to its biometric systems

Telos Corp. has made its first acquisition since going public last year by adding the assets of Diamond Fortress Technologies, whose catalog of intellectual property focuses on contactless biometric readings.

Podcasts

AT&T's return to its core and the public sector, public safety arm

What does AT&T’s broad strategic reset to focus on technology and connectivity mean for its public sector and public safety businesses? Hear the big-picture answers to that question asked by our Ross Wilkers to AT&T's public sector business chief Jason Porter and Jill Singer, who leads the defense and national security business.

In familiar refrain, it's Amazon versus Microsoft for this $10B NSA cloud contract

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are again in opposite corners of a protest fight over a $10 billion cloud hosting contract. But this time unlike in JEDI it's AWS as the winner, the National Security Agency the customer and Microsoft the protestor.

How Booz Allen's 'Future of Work' vision shapes hiring for today & tomorrow

Booz Allen Hamilton is rolling out the firm's post-pandemic future of work and goes into that knowing there is still much to learn -- even if much has been learned in the current environment.

Shield AI makes second acquisition for unmanned aerial portfolio

Its second acquisition in a week, Shield AI intends to buy Martin UAV and continue developing a portfolio centered on technologies that deliver unmanned systems capabilities.