KBR moving ahead with Centauri now fully in the fold

KBR's acquisition of Centauri late last year was the largest and most transformational in the buyer's own words. With the integration done, KBR's focus is now focused on further growing its government market share.

Enlightenment Capital engages with former DHS chief

Enlightenment Capital is now working with former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to provide legal advice and counsel.

PAE's Heller resigns as CEO

PAE's long-time CEO John Heller has told the company he will resign, effective March 19. Chief Financial Officer Charles Peiffer has been named interim leader.

SAIC appoints YouTube exec to board

SAIC has added a 10th person to its board in YouTube's lead health care executive Garth Graham.

GMU's GovCon center makes additions to advisory board & faculty

George Mason University’s research and education center focused on government contracting adds new names to its advisory board and affiliated faculty roster.

Navy hands down $778.9M modernization support awards

Eleven companies will compete for task orders to help the Navy in its platform modernization efforts under a $778.9 million contract.

LPTA protest lands in federal court

Vectrus and VS2 LLC are embroiled in a dispute over who is the rightful winner of a $250 million Army logistics contract that now is in federal court.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: BlueHalo's strategy for transforming modern warfare

BlueHalo hit the market hard with six acquisitions in 2020 and as CEO Jonathan Moneymaker explains to Editor Nick Wakeman, this latest platform of Arlington Capital Partners is pursuing opportunities around the transformation of modern warfare.

Leonardo DRS sets its IPO size & specs

Leonardo DRS reveals the stake it is offering investors through an initial public offering that sees the Italy-based parent retain both effective control of the business and a presence in the U.S. defense market.

Cyber firm IronNet finds buyer to take it public

IronNet, the cybersecurity firm founded and led by retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, will become a publicly-traded entity by merging with a blank check firm that includes two L3 Technologies founders in its leadership ranks.

Parsons lays out its three-year blueprint

Parsons Corp. showed more of its hand on the growth strategy and continued evolution of the business when it returned to the public markets two years ago. Here is how the company recently took investors through its blueprint for the next three years.

Serco takes $600M Navy recompete

Serco has retained a $600 million contract to support Navy anti-terrorism and force protection efforts.

CACI signs off on $500M stock buyback

CACI International is the lone publicly-traded government technology services company that tells investors upfront to not expect dividends on the stock, but it is pulling the lever on share repurchases with this $500 million buyback.

PAE sees its second year of being public looking much like the first

PAE's first year of being a publicly-traded government services company began a mere handful of weeks before the coronavirus pandemic was declared and their outlook for 2021 sees some of those effects carrying over.

How L3Harris is balancing internal focus & external pursuits

L3Harris Technologies as we know it is 20 months old, which puts the self-touted Sixth Prime roughly halfway through the effort to make its two big pieces into one and company executives further detailed where they are in that process to investors.

Tick-tock: How Cubic decided on its sale to Veritas & activist fund

Veritas Capital and its activist hedge fund partner kept up their pursuit of Cubic Corp. over the course of five months and they apparently were quicker to act than the other prospective bidder.

SAIC adds new space business leader

Science Applications International Corp. has hired David Ray as the senior vice president in charge of its space business unit.

Two Six Technologies unveils new board members

Two Six Technologies unveils four new members of its board of directors nearly a month after the company launched with its new identity.

Iridium board adds Maxar exec

Iridium Communications said Tuesday its board of directors has elected a new member in Tony Frazier, a lead executive at Maxar Technologies.

Booz Allen grows defense leadership team

Booz Allen Hamilton brings back one of its former employees in Matice Wright-Springer, who joins the leadership team in the firm's defense group.