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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peraton to bring over Perspecta's finance chief

The management team that will lead Peraton after it combines with Perspecta takes some more shape with the reveal of who will be chief financial officer.

ManTech, Google detail their cloud partnership

ManTech and Google are expanding their collaboration on digital transformation in government to further lean on the search giant's cloud offering.

Northrop sees focus as its friend in a crowded space landscape

SpaceX's win (under protest) of the NASA moon lander highlighted how the overall space market has changed in both commercial and government segments, so Wall Street is wondering what Northrop Grumman and other defense companies make of it.

Opinion

Why and how GovCon CEOs should use LinkedIn

With millions of customers on LinkedIn, GovCon CEOs need to leverage the social platform or they are doomed to lag behind their competitors.

Judge rules Amazon's JEDI lawsuit to go forward

A federal judge decides that the court will hear Amazon's long-running argument that the Trump administration swung the JEDI cloud infrastructure contract's award to Microsoft.

New private equity name unveiled

The defense and government services market has a newly-launched private equity name that will focus on the lower middle market.

IBM wins $850M Navy ERP order

IBM wins a giant piece of the Navy's broader effort to improve financial controls and performance, in part by adopting a consolidated enterprise resource planning setup.

General Dynamics eyes greater share of the cloud pie

General Dynamics is already the lead for one significant cloud migration effort in government and wants to be at the nexus of other moves.

Cubic stockholders vote 'yes' on sale to Veritas & activist investor

A majority of Cubic's stockholders vote to approve the company's sale to Veritas Capital and an activist hedge fund partner.

Deloitte wins second shot at HUD cyber contract

Deloitte gets another shot at a cybersecurity contract with the Housing and Urban Development Department after a competitor used the wrong labor categories.