DARPA opens door to more private equity-backed firms

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency adjusts the requirements for bidders on Small Business Innovation Research contracts to allow participation by private equity-backed firms.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Serco fights to keep Navy work

Serco is defending its incumbency by protesting a $354 million Navy contract that went to Booz Allen Hamilton.

  • By Nick Wakeman

VA can now make $22.3B T4NG on-ramp awards

With all outstanding protests denied, the Veterans Affairs Department can now make on-ramp awards for its $22.3 billion T4NG technology services contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

AT&T formalizes public sector leadership promotion

AT&T formalizes its promotion of the executive who has led its public sector work on an interim basis for nearly six months to take that role permanently.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AeroVironment's latest acquisition centers on AI, autonomy tech

On the heels of closing a platform-focused acquisition, AeroVironment completes a second to bring in more augmenting technologies like autonomy.

SAIC creates senior role for AI leadership

Science Applications International Corp. has hired a former IBM executive to the newly-created role of senior vice president of artificial intelligence.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Higher price not a factor in Grant Thornton's $350M TSA win

Both competitors pitched significantly lower prices, but the Transportation Security Agency successfully defended its case for paying more to acquire Grant Thornton's solution.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Parsons sees a rebound on the way despite permanent changes due to COVID

Like others in the market, Parsons Corp. is blending realism about what the coronavirus pandemic has meant to its business and the market at-large with some optimism that the underlying fundamentals are stable.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GSA tries again at awards for $5.5B IT product vehicle

The General Services Administration makes a second attempt at awards for a $5.5 billion IT product vehicle primarily for the Air Force but available to all agencies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Redwire's latest space tech deal eyes solar arrays

Redwire has been busy on the acquisition front with AE Industrial Partners' backing since last year and the latest deal finds a company specializing in solar arrays.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Four mega-trends shaping today's market

Today’s market stands on the brink of great change and as SAIC's chief technology officer Charles Onstott explains to WT Editor Nick Wakeman, there are four mega-trends shaping those changes that companies need to embrace.

Former Unisys Federal leader picks emerging small business as his next chapter

Former Unisys Federal President PV Puvvada is now the CEO of NetImpact, a small business pushing its way into the middle tier with digital transformation offerings.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Lost contract leads Leidos to make its latest acquisition

Last year, Leidos lost a Navy competition for an unmanned vessel but the lessons learned helped direct the company to its latest acquisition, a $380 million deal for a naval architecture firm.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Tick tock: How Perspecta decided on its sale to Veritas

Veritas Capital eventually became the winner of the race to buy Perspecta, whose board of directors had to consider not just the offers before it but how another investor wanted to see things happen.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Regulators seek more info out of Lockheed & Aerojet

Antitrust regulators will take more time to look through and are asking for more information about Lockheed Martin’s proposed acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Lumen voices objection over EIS security award to Verizon

Lumen Technologies is pushing back on a $157.6 million network security services award that went to Verizon.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Preferred Systems Solutions' leadership team nearly all-female with COO hire

Preferred Systems Solutions' new chief operating officer becomes the fifth woman to hold a senior position on the company's six-person leadership team.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Sabre Systems founder returns to CEO role

Sabre Systems makes a pair of leadership appointments that include the return of its founder to chief executive.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Novetta promotes 2 new senior VPs

Novetta moves two executives up to the ranks of senior vice president as part of a broader effort to expand the technology portfolio and unify it.

  • By Washington Technology staff

How ManTech is facing the talent challenge with internal muscle

ManTech just put the books on a 2020 that saw growth on its top line and in the backlog for future revenue, but sees the biggest challenge ahead for themselves and industry as one of talent supply more than budget.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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