Leidos adds to cloud, managed IT capabilities with deal for 1901 Group

Leidos emphasized the importance of the cloud and managed IT services with its $215 million deal to buy the 1901 Group.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GSA makes progress on OASIS protests

The General Services Administration has made some progress toward resolving the handful of OASIS on-ramp protests it has faced.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Vertex faces second set of challenges over $485M Navy logistics contract

Vertex Aerospace has won a $485.3 million Navy logistics contract twice and is facing challenges from two disappointed bidders for a second time.

  • By Nick Wakeman

BAE lets go of commercial cyber

BAE Systems becomes the latest in a group of government contractors to find a new home for the commercial cybersecurity business.

  • By Ross Wilkers

AeroVironment works on its ground game in new acquisition

Known for its unmanned aerial vehicles, AeroVironment decides to focus its latest acquisition on ground platforms to position for similar opportunities there.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DISA unveils $11B IT 'Enclave' services solicitation

The Defense Information Systems Agency puts its much-anticipated $11.2 billion 'Enclave Services' contract for broad IT services out for industry to bid.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos wins $1.7B FAA systems integration rebid

Leidos wins the $1.7 billion recompete of a contract for broad systems integration support services to the Federal Aviation Administration.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Bluestone pulls in seasoned leader to be platform company's executive chairman

Dennis Kelly's last day at Centauri was Friday after helping lead the sale of that company to. On Monday he began work as executive chairman of a Bluestone Investment Partners platform company in the market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

iBiz captures FAA contract for transoceanic air traffic control development

IBiz will support research and development efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration develop the next generation of transoceanic air traffic control.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Under the hood: What Peraton is getting in Northrop IT deal

It's a big deal for sure, but what will Peraton gain when it folds in Northrop Grumman's IT business? The work is broader than defense and intelligence with a good dose of health IT and other civilian work sprinkled in.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Veritas-backed Peraton to combine with Northrop's IT business

The government market had one more megadeal left for this year as Veritas Capital is combining its portfolio company Peraton with the Northrop Grumman federal IT business.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft to launch top secret cloud

Microsoft Azure is waiting on government accreditation for its new top secret regions.

  • By Adam Mazmanian
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Microsoft's federal focus and the importance of mission resiliency

As president of Microsoft's U.S. regulated industries, Toni Townes-Whitley looks across the legacy of the software giant as well as its future. She shares that vision with Editor Nick Wakeman as they talk major contract wins, social justice, emerging technology and mission resiliency.

Mercury to pay $310M for mission management tech company

Mercury Systems will pay $310 million in cash for company that focuses on platform and mission management content technologies for use in defense applications.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAIC's record bookings set stage for future growth

For the second quarter in a row, Science Applications International Corp. set a new high on the book-to-bill ratio front through the wins of several large contracts that set the stage for stronger growth in the future.

ICF eyes the future of work as Wasson adds this chairman's role

ICF CEO John Wasson is about to add the board chairman title to his duties and employee engagement and development during the pandemic will remain a top priority. Here is how ICF is thinking about what the future work cadence could be post-pandemic.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Once-disappointed bidder gets onto $1.5B Justice litigation support contract

A once-disappointed bidder over being excluded from a $1.5 billion Justice Department litigation support contract has won its way back onto that vehicle after a brief protest.

  • By Ross Wilkers

One week, three deals done as year-end flurry continues

It was not so long ago that we shared a list of five acquisitions that closed in a week to show that M&A activity is ending 2020 at a quick pace. By Light, NuWave and Swish Data Corp. are the acquirers in the spotlight as we close another week of strong M&A activity.

  • By Ross Wilkers

ManTech wins CBP business intell recompete

ManTech International has kept a $273 million contract to help Customs and Border Protection with business intelligence support services.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Raytheon renews challenge to massive satellite contract

Raytheon doesn't think the Space Development Agency is going far enough to fix issues with how it evaluated bids to build satellites for a massive new missile defense system.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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