AeroVironment moves corporate headquarters to DC region

AeroVironment has relocated its corporate headquarters to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region from the former longtime home in Greater Los Angeles.

Comcast wins third piece of DISA's commercial gateway initiative

Comcast wins its third piece of the Defense Information Agency's effort to roll out new ethernet connections across the U.S.

Top 100 kick off features leading execs

We kick off the annual Top 100 rankings with a virtual event featuring leading executives from Peraton, Leidos, Science Applications International Corp., CACI International, Accenture, LMI and Dovel Technologies. This a great opportunity to hear what's driving today's market.

Booz Allen closes $725M Liberty IT acquisition

Booz Allen Hamilton completes its $725 million acquisition of Liberty IT Solutions to add more offerings around digital modernization including services to support implementations of Salesforce at agencies.

Pandemic's impact mixed but GovCon remains strong

The COVID-19 pandemic had a broad and wide-ranging impact across GovCon, but Deltek's new Clarity report finds the overall the business impact was not as bad as many feared.

Iridium hires new technical chief

Iridium Communications appoints a nearly three-decade technology industry veteran as its new chief technical officer.

AWS, venture capital firm finalize selections for space startup accelerator

Amazon Web Services and its venture capital partner choose 10 startup space companies to participate in a four-week accelerator program focused on cloud computing and analytics technologies.

How AT&T plans to transform VA's infrastructure

Inside how the Veterans Affairs Department has tasked AT&T to help modernize that agency’s communications network infrastructure covering the U.S.’ largest integrated health care system.

In first deal, JHNA expands its Navy presence

Veteran-owned JHNA has acquired Technology Security Associates to bring more Navy work into the fold.

Parsons' latest acquisition eyes converged, digital operations product library

Parsons Corp. will acquire Blackhorse Solutions in a $203 million transaction to add more products and services in areas such as cybersecurity, digital operations and automation.

System High promotes strategy chief from within

System High promotes one of its vice presidents who joined two years ago to the role of chief strategy officer.

How Viasat is pushing 'satcom as a service' in government

Viasat's overall government market strategy is somewhat simple: layer new innovations on top of its commercially-developed satellite network that federal agencies can connect to. Helping change how they connect is also part of that.

Sagewind rebrands $600M mid-tier player as Axient

Private equity firm Sagewind Capital has unveiled Axient, the new name for a platform company that combines four acquisitions under a single brand with around $600 million in annual revenue.

Blue Canyon promotes co-founder to CEO

Now part of Raytheon Technologies, small satellite maker Blue Canyon Technologies promotes one of its co-founders and current chief technical officer to CEO.

Contractors grapple with the future of the workforce

As the country opens up and more employees return to the office, government contractors are applying lessons learned to create what the “new normal” will look like. It continues to be a work in progress.

Dell added to $2.56B Navy software pact

Dell receives the second seat on a $2.56 billion blanket purchase agreement for the Navy to purchase Microsoft brand name licenses and products.

Leidos keeps $470M TSA screening equipment award

Leidos wins the recompete of a $470.7 million contract to provide deployment services for checkpoint screening equipment to the Transportation Security Administration.

Presidio launches federal-focused business

Presidio has created a standalone unit to put more of a focus on the federal market.

BigBear.ai to go public via SPAC merger deal

BigBear.ai, a private equity-backed artificial intelligence firm formed in February, will become a publicly-traded entity through this merger with a so-called "blank check" firm or SPAC.

Revenue growth, new acquisition fuel SAIC's optimism

In its first quarter results, Science Applications International Corp. could point to several positive indicators such as a new acquisition, revenue growth, improved margins. Just one negative held: a slight drag from the continuing pandemic.