CACI books $376M Agriculture modernization win

CACI International confirms its win of a $376 million system modernization task order with the Agriculture Department.

Cognosante appoints new CFO

Cognosante hires a new chief financial officer that was most recently the CFO at 1901 Group.

Peraton adds intell community veteran to advisory board

Peraton adds longtime intelligence community leader Bill Evanina to the company's board of advisers.

Raytheon details CFO transition

Raytheon Technologies appoints a new chief financial officer around the one-year anniversary of the megamerger to create the company as the market now knows it.

CACI promotes exec to CTO

CACI International promotes one of its own executives to chief technology officer with responsibilities over the tools themselves and the people who work on them.

Family PE firm acquires another GovCon company

McNally Capital has acquired Orbis Operations in another deal that to build the private equity investor's federal market portfolio.

Cubic bidding war highlights the value of certainty over price

The sale of Cubic Corp. turned into a bidding war but the story of how Veritas Capital and its hedge fund partner finally won out highlights how certainty over the closing can outweigh a higher price.

How SAIC ran the recompete table with a critical Army customer

Science Applications International Corp. is coming off what one executive called a "super-cycle" of recompetes, all with the same customer and with a combined ceiling of over $8 billion. Here is a glimpse into how SAIC won them all.

Incumbency not enough for CACI to win $200M Navy contract

CACI International lost a tight battle with Booz Allen Hamilton for a $200 million Navy contract despite being a highly-rated incumbent.

ECS appoints new business development lead from within

ECS names one of its own executives as the company's next vice president of business development.

BlueHalo makes pair of leadership hires

BlueHalo makes a pair of executive hires for its merger-and-acquisition and human capital functions.

Opinion

Workplace authenticity can be a woman's best friend

Women have struggled to strike the right work-life balance and the pandemic has only made it worse. SAIC executive Nyla Beth Gawel writes that should embrace authenticity and not be afraid to ask their employers for what they need.

Talent, future of (tele)work underpin GDIT's strategy

The head of General Dynamics' IT services segment calls out the future of work post-pandemic and specifically telework as directly linked to winning the talent fight and helping agencies with their innovation needs.

Ensco makes deal for aerospace, national security expansion

Ensco makes an acquisition to bolster its aerospace and national security market footprint, plus add a new proprietary cloud-based tool in use among many customers.

SAIC books another big win with Army customer

Science Applications International Corp. confirms its fourth in a series of contract wins with the same customer to provide engineering services around aviation, modeling and simulation and the testing of embedded systems.

Elbit Systems' U.S. arm completes $380M Sparton buy

Elbit Systems' U.S. business completes the $380 million acquisition of Sparton Corp., which will operate in a different structure within its new home.

Carlson's successor at AWS retains her mandate for growth, long-term partnerships

Teresa Carlson, the architect and face of Amazon's public sector cloud business, is headed for Splunk as her AWS successor picks up the mandate for growth and relationships built to last.

Patent & Trademark Office finalizes awards for $2B software contract

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office picks five companies for a $2 billion software development and systems integration contract.

General Atomics acquires data, software services company

General Atomics acquires a data analytics and software engineering services company that counts the United Nations as among its customers.

Tyto Athene closes acquisition, unveils expanded leadership team

Tyto Athene completes its acquisition of the now-former AT&T defense IT professional services business and added new leadership team members as a result of that deal.