PAE's board elects two new members

PAE’s board of directors adds two new members: a retired Navy vice admiral along with a managing director at the private equity firm that once owned the company before its deal to go public.

What the IT market can learn from SpaceX's NASA win

SpaceX has surprised the aerospace market by winning the $2.9 billion NASA contract to take human's back to the moon but the lessons from that victory might extend across the entire government market.

How Teresa Carlson signed off from AWS and introduced her successor

Amazon's flagship cloud summit for public sector customers always begins with a keynote from Teresa Carlson and this year was her last, so she used the (virtual) stage with to pass the baton to her successor.

NASA starts second on-ramp for $6B space systems contract

While no awards are guaranteed, NASA is starting a new on-ramp for companies to try again at joining a $6 billion contract for acquiring space systems in an agile manner.

Valiant appoints new CEO

Valiant Integrated Services' leader since its inception is retiring and the company has promoted his successor to chief executive.

Air Force seeks small firms for $490M counter-unmanned aircraft program

The Air Force has kicked off the bidding for a $490 million contract that seeks a small business to help develop technologies that can fend off small unmanned aircraft.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How small businesses can be M&A players too

John Allen of Bluestone Investment Partners tells WT Editor Nick Wakeman how small businesses can find a way to become players in today's hyperactive merger-and-acquisition landscape.

Should GovCon firms join the fight against voting restrictions?

Several companies with strong ties to the federal market have joined the Black Economic Alliance's fight against state efforts to put more restrictions on voting.

ComSovereign's newest deal eyes signal processing tech

ComSovereign's latest acquisition to further build its wireless technology holdings amid the 5G revolution leads the company to a business focused on signal processing.

Sev1Tech appoints new Army business lead

Sev1Tech expands its leadership team with the appointment of an executive to focus on the company's work with the Army.

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.