New owner takes in Forcepoint, swaps out CEO

Global tech investment firm Francisco Partners completes its $1.5 billion acquisition of Forcepoint from Raytheon Technologies and appoints a new CEO alongside other hires and promotions.

  • By Ross Wilkers

LinQuest names Jacobs vet as growth lead

LinQuest Corp. adds to its leadership team Kent Wilcher, a 15-year federal market veteran and former Jacobs executive.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Navy reopens $50B professional services vehicle for bids

The Navy kicks off the rolling admissions phase for its $50 billion SeaPort NxG professional services vehicle for companies to take a second chance at winning a seat on.

  • By Ross Wilkers

System High buys piece of Booz Allen's MDA business

Enlightenment Capital-backed System High adds to its platform through the acquisition of a portion of Booz Allen Hamilton's business that works with the Missile Defense Agency.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GovCon political action committees join others in pausing contributions

Leidos, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies are among companies who are pausing contributions by their political action committees in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Opinion

Numbers don't lie: Feds on LinkedIn are fertile territory

Mark Amtower's annual census of federal employees on the LinkedIn platform shows every agency represented and that the business platform is a critical and powerful tool for enriching your relationships with customers.

  • By Mark Amtower

Smartronix's purchase of Datastrong eyes more data, cloud capabilities

Smartronix has bought Datastrong in a move to expand the portfolio of cloud computing services and customer footprint.

  • By Nick Wakeman

IBM argues corrective action creates problems in $786M Army ERP solicitation

IBM is renewing its protest over a $786.7 million Army enterprise resource planning support contract and zeroing in on changes to the solicitation.

  • By Nick Wakeman

BWXT brings aboard new government lead

BWXT Technologies appoints a 12-year veteran of Lockheed Martin to oversee work for federal clients.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAIC hires CACI vet Dankanikote

Science Applications International Corp. adds nearly three-decade CACI International veteran Ravi Dankanikote to the business development leadership team.

Preferred Systems Solutions promotes new CEO

Nearly one year after an acquisition, Preferred Systems Solutions elevates one of the executives that joined the company through that deal to be its CEO.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Cisco board adds longtime Raytheon exec

Cisco's board of directors elects a new member in John Harris, formerly a senior executive at Raytheon for nearly three decades.

  • By Washington Technology staff

SpaceX, L3Harris chosen again for huge satellite contract

The Space Development Agency paused to rethink its awards to SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies, but has reaffirmed its choice of those companies to build the first set of satellites to track hypersonic weapons.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Is Perspecta on the verge of going private thanks to its biggest shareholder?

One of Perspecta’s largest shareholders is working on an offer to acquire the government technology services company and the prospective buyer is no stranger to Perspecta -- none other than Veritas Capital.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cloudera appoints new government business head

Cloudera, the Silicon Valley-based data engineering software outfit, hires longtime public sector veteran Robert Carey to lead its work with government agencies.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Booz Allen invests in cyber firm

Booz Allen Hamilton has become an investor in a commercial cyber company with digital forensics and incident response technologies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Industry groups, execs put focus on democracy in wake of Capitol building riot

In the aftermath of the Capitol building riot, industry associations and company executives have urged calm while also extolling the virtues of democracy.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Maximus details CFO transition

Maximus promotes from within for its next chief financial officer as the current CFO moves toward retirement.

  • By Ross Wilkers

VTG hires former KeyW business, corporate development head

VTG, the company formerly known as VT Group, adds nearly three-decade market veteran and former KeyW business and corporate development head Kirk Herdman.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Axiologic closes first deal after prep year

Axiologic Solutions spent a full year on putting the personnel and financing in place to close its first acquisition, which sees it buy Knowledge Link to gain a new intelligence customer and more capabilities.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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