AWS, venture capital firm launch space startup accelerator

Amazon Web Services in partnership with a venture capital farm have stood up an accelerator and mentoring program for space startups, who are encouraged to apply.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AT&T adding 5G to FirstNet public safety network

AT&T is incorporating 5G connectivity and new encryption methods into the FirstNet public safety communications network.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Alion promotes new senior VP

Alion Science and Technology promotes a nearly two-decade company veteran to senior vice president of a business group focused on the company’s training offerings.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Maximus appoints new federal leader

Maximus hires a nearly two-decade IT industry veteran to head its federal segment and succeed the retiring Tom Romeo.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Elbit Systems, Anduril detail their latest acquisitions

Two new acquisitions in the defense technology market come courtesy of Elbit Systems and Anduril Industries as they look to expand both their product portfolios and market shares.

  • By Ross Wilkers

First set of CMMC certification orgs emerge

The Defense Department's unified cybersecurity program is making gains with its first tranche of certifying bodies, but assessments for defense contractors are a ways off.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Microsoft, Army move on $22B headset production contract

Microsoft and the Army advance to the production phase of an augmented reality headset contract and the new award has a ceiling value in the multiple billions.

  • By Ross Wilkers

State Department previews $4B IT buy

The State Department starts to preview a planned $4 billion IT services contract and is asking industry for feedback on the overall strategy.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Earth Resources Technology wins $700M NOAA ground system contract

Earth Resources Technology wins a $699.6 million contract to operate and maintain ground-based information technology and antenna systems for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cubic accepts increased bid from Veritas & activist hedge fund

Cubic Corp.’s board of directors accepts an increased offer from Veritas Capital and the latter's activist hedge fund partner for this deal that ends a bidding war against Singapore Technologies Engineering.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Opinion

5 public relations strategies for mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions are rampant in the market so don't overlook the significant role marketing and public relations can play to make your deal distinct from your competitors and better understood by your employees and customers.

  • By Brian Lustig

Raytheon-MetTel team to pursue $3.5B FAA telecom program

Raytheon Technologies and MetTel unveil their partnership to bid for a $3.5 billion telecommunications and network integration contract with the Federal Aviation Administration.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Heat turns up in the fight to acquire Cubic

Singapore Technologies Engineering has twice raised its offer to acquire Cubic Corp., which is in the midst of a bidding war between STE and a team of Veritas and Elliott Management.

  • By Ross Wilkers

CMMC body hires its first CEO

The governing body in charge of implementing the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has hired its first CEO in Matthew Travis, former deputy director of the Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Air Force seeking ideas in $500M advanced manufacturing tech effort

The Air Force's latest call for white papers from industry seeks ideas on bolstering advanced manufacturing technologies and will award up to $500 million under this effort.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Accenture books potential $453M GI Bill claims modernization contract

Accenture Federal Services secures a $453 million contract to work with the Veterans Affairs Department on modernizing claims processing systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Peraton awarded $360M ICBM software check contract

The Air Force awards Peraton a $360.4 million contract to help analyze and address safety risks of software used to operate intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Early performance issue doomed this DataPath bid

DataPath says it rescued a troubled contract. But the Army saw it differently and now there is a new contractor.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SAIC breaks the $7B revenue mark, but COVID continues to be an overhang

Science Applications International Corp.'s acquisition of Unisys Federal meant strong growth in its just-ended fiscal year but the company sees COVID-19 impacts as a continued drag on organic expansion.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Time for cyber teams, not stovepipes: Telos' CEO tells Wall Street

Telos Corp. is starting to tell its story to Wall Street just as cybersecurity is once again at or near the top of the agenda for federal agencies after two recent and significant compromises.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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