What drew Noblis to acquire McKean Defense

Noblis leadership sees the nonprofit organization's acquisition of McKean Defense as both growing into a new customer set and further expanding the aperture of technology-related work.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Deloitte exec Greg Pellegrino dies at 55

Greg Pellegrino, an architect of Deloitte's public sector business, has died of a heart attack at age 55.

  • By Nick Wakeman

CACI keeps $500M Air Force contract

CACI International has retained a $500 million Air Force contract to support the logistics and depot infrastructure relied upon by the Air Force to maintain various aircraft and weapons systems.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Verizon wins $495M defense research network contract

Verizon wins back a large contract it held nine years ago and will help run a high-speed computing network shared by the Defense Department's scientific and research community.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Why a whole lotta data is only part of the equation

How does industry work with a government customer that must save every single piece of data it collects? Andrew Churchill of Qlik Federal tells our Ross Wilkers how new practices and an emphasis on the workforce can help.

NEC unveils federal subsidiary, leadership team

NEC's subsidiary for the U.S. market has unveiled a new business and executive leadership team that will focus on the federal government.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Maximus, PAE share integration updates

Maximus and PAE are among the government market's most serial acquirers and within the past five months have announced four deals with three of them closed so far. Analysts asked them about those integrations and the broader landscape they are taking place in.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Peraton's almost never-ending fight to keep State Department work

Peraton is now engaged in its seventh protest involving a $110 million State Department contract that the agency has awarded to competitors multiple times.

  • By Nick Wakeman

IBM puts 50B transistors on a single chip

IBM has developed a new chip that is smaller but can pack in 50 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail, proving once again that Moore's Law continues.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Perspecta shareholders approve Peraton deal

Perspecta shareholders approve the deal with Peraton, clearing the way for Peraton to acquire Perspecta in a $7.1 billion transaction.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Where Veritas wants to cast its new $1.8B net

Acquiring two public companies in quick succession is on Veritas Capital's immediate agenda as the firm also now has a $1.8 billion fund to work with for opportunities of smaller sizes.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How these 3 companies are getting an early read on emerging budget picture

A more thorough budget request is currently in production at the Biden White House but some early clues have emerged and these three companies are broadly identifying areas of promise to them.

  • By Ross Wilkers

General Motors hires new defense lead

General Motors hires a new president for its defense business that is ramping up production of a new light vehicle for the Army to carry troops on.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Acclaim Technical Services hires new chief growth officer

Acclaim Technical Services brings in a new chief growth officer who most recently held the same role at ManTech.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How Leidos views the health market from its perch

Leidos released its first quarter financial results almost a couple hours before Booz Allen Hamilton announced the $725 million acquisition of Liberty IT Solutions. From Leidos' viewpoint, that deal confirms why it likes being in the federal health market.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Booz Allen's $725M deal for Liberty seeks more Salesforce, transformation skills

Booz Allen Hamilton will pay $725 million to buy Liberty IT Solutions in a move that bolsters offerings around several critical modernization and digital transformation capabilities.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Noblis acquires naval engineering, transformation firm

Noblis makes an acquisition to further expand the nonprofit's work on engineering and enterprise transformation efforts for the Navy and other defense customers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Board, executive and private equity appointments mark busy week in people movement

Additions to boards of directors, an executive appointment and a private equity firm's brain trust expanding are in this summary of people movements within the past week.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How L3Harris links its internal muscle to outward success

L3Harris Technologies certainly gained a wider aperture in the market through its merger, but Wall Street also wants to know what kind of internal heft is needed to secure that growth.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Peraton names leaders for after Perspecta deal closes

Peraton CEO Stu Shea has told employees who will be on the leadership team once the combination with Perspecta closes in the next few months.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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