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.

What Northrop makes of Bezos' offer to subsidize NASA moon lander

Northrop Grumman is on the lunar lander pursuit team led by Blue Origin, whose founder Jeff Bezos has offered to essentially pick up the check for NASA in building that vehicle to go to the moon. But the way Northrop invests in space reveals a different philosophy.

Tanium hires new public sector chief

Cybersecurity company Tanium has hired a nearly two-decade technology sector veteran to chart its strategy for the public sector market.

GSA makes awards on ASTRO manned & unmanned product contract

The General Services Administration chooses dozens of firms for the much-anticipated and massive ASTRO contract vehicle covering manned, optionally manned and unmanned platforms and services.

The danger in Bezos' $2B offer to NASA

Jeff Bezos' offer to cover $2 billion in potential cost overruns to build a lunar lander for NASA could be easy to dismiss, but don't ignore some very real threats.

General Dynamics' chip supply issue is far from its alone

Everything in the world runs on computer chips and there are simply not enough to go around, as General Dynamics is finding out with respect to its IT product business.

The one hiccup in Raytheon's hefty defense business

Returns of air traffic to pre-COVID levels has been a boost for Raytheon Technologies as its defense business is also a point of optimism with one exception.

IBM further builds out federal team

Over the past several months, IBM's federal business has added several former senior government leaders for more cloud and artificial intelligence brainpower as it positions itself to purse more digital transformation opportunities.

Accenture (finally) touts big Army ERP win

After several rounds of protests, Accenture can finally say it has secured a $729 million contract to consolidate multiple Army enterprise resource planning systems.

LMI acquires Suntiva to further public health & defense push

LMI closes an acquisition to further entrench its presence in public health and also add more of a footprint with certain defense agencies.

QinetiQ's board adds former CSRA chief

QinetiQ Group’s board of directors elects new member in Larry Prior, the former CSRA CEO and currently at The Carlyle Group.