CenturyLink promotes exec as federal lead

CenturyLink has promoted one of its executives to the role of regional vice president for the company’s federal government business.

Deadline to ditch Chinese gear looms but uncertainty remains

The deadline for contractors to stop using Huawei and other communications equipment from China is Aug. 12 but there is still uncertainty about the new rules to comply with the ban.

Vectrus starting slow on LOGCAP V amid COVID impacts

Vectrus is busy working on the massive LOGCAP V contract, but the COVID pandemic has caused delays that will push back some growth from that contract to 2021.

ECS appoints new CFO

ECS brings aboard a nearly two-decade corporate finance and federal market veteran to be its next chief financial officer.

BAE secures $85M Air Force data security project

BAE System Inc. books an $85 million contract to help the Air Force’s research shop on efforts to support the sharing of sensitive information on government networks.

Northrop joins fight over $1.6B Justice IT contract

The protest pool grows as Northrop Grumman formally makes its own objections involving the Justice Department's $1.6 billion IT Support Services 5 contract.

Perspecta adds former intell community exec

Perspecta appoints a nearly three-decade federal government veteran and former intelligence community executive to the company's business development leadership group.

Siemens exec joins board of U.S. federal arm

Siemens Corp.’s subsidiary focused on the U.S. government market is adding an executive from the parent company to the U.S. group's board of directors.

DOD asks court for more time to make new JEDI award

Defense Department attorneys have asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a 30-day extension on its deadline to make a new award decision on the massive JEDI cloud infrastructure contract that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are battling over.

Perspecta joins fight against $1.7B student loan contract

Perspecta has joined other companies in pushing back at the Education Department choices for prime contracts under a $1.7 billion student loan processing contract.

Leidos objects to elimination from defense intell contract

Leidos has gone to the Government Accountability Office after the Defense Intelligence Agency eliminated it from the running for an analytical support services contract.

ASRC Federal wins $338M NASA recompete

ASRC Federal wins the $338 million recompete of its contract for broad IT services at one of NASA's main research centers.

CAE appoints new defense group president

CAE brings aboard a former L3Harris Technologies sector president to lead the former's defense and security group.

Another round of protests for $1.6B Justice IT contract

A $1.6 billion Justice Department IT contract continues to run into protest troubles as the agency tries to finalize awards.

Perspecta faces common challenges in this pandemic world and one that's unique

Perspecta joins the list of companies calling out delays in awards as one of several market-wide factors but they also face one that is unique to Perspecta itself.

Army extends software contracts under ITES

The Army's enterprise software office extends a multiple award contract.

Parsons names new missile defense, C5ISR lead

Parsons Corp. elevates one of the executives that joined last year when the company acquired OGSystems.

Agencies are active on contracts, but slow to pull the trigger

Opportunities appear to be flowing out from agencies as normal from PAE's perspective, but they do see the final leg as happening much slower during the pandemic.

New partnership forms around automated cyber risk analysis

Acquired Data Solutions and KDM Analytics formed a partnership to offer an automated cyber risk analysis and measurement product to federal agencies and IT equipment providers.

Trump fires TVA chairman over IT outsourcing

The federally owned power company is rethinking plans to fire its internal IT staff and shift to managed services in light of Trump's intervention and a new executive order on federal contracting.