2 transactions show at least some private equity deals are getting done

The Carlyle Group has re-acquired a firm it owned over a decade ago and a second private equity backed firm has made a divestiture to improve its market focus.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Guidehouse fights for lost Secret Service contract

Guidehouse is fighting back after losing a $27 million incumbent contract to support the Secret Service's chief financial officer.

  • By Nick Wakeman

M&A considerations beyond COVID-19

The coronavirus has slowed down the closing of mergers and acquisitions in the government market but other considerations are also coming to mind for buyers and sellers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

L3Harris can claim this $900M Air Force training tech win

While bids were due before its creation, L3Harris Technologies can claim this win of a $900 million Air Force training technology contract that helps explain how both sides of the merger saw each other.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Parsons board adds former Raytheon exec, retired Transcom chief

Parsons Corp.'s board of directors grows to 10 members with the additions of a former Raytheon executive and retired Transportation Command chief.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Opinion

Five regulatory changes for contractors to watch

Five supply chain risk mitigation initiatives are likely to result in new regulations on government contractors. Market watchers at law firm Covington walk through each change contractors should pay attention to and where the implementations of them currently stand.

  • By Samantha Clark, Susan B. Cassidy and Ryan Burnette

GSA makes 3 awards in e-commerce test

The General Services Administration awarded spots on its long-awaited e-commerce platform proof-of-concept test to Amazon, Overstock and Fisher Scientific.

  • By Mark Rockwell

Special Operations Command chooses 6 for unmanned contract

Six companies win spots on a $975 million unmanned aircraft systems and ISR contract with Special Operations Command.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Hitachi Vantara Federal appoints new CTO

Hitachi Vantara Federal has promoted its engineering director to the role of chief technology officer.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Telework's impact on the state & local market

The shift to telework has accelerated because of the COVID-19 and in many jurisdiction there is evidence the trend might continue after the market reaches the new normal.

  • By John M. Kamensky, MIchaela Drust and Emily Craig

Perspecta wants DEOS protest reimbursement

Because of a late move to take a corrective action on the $7.6 billion DEOS contract, Perspecta is asking for its protest costs to be reimbursed.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Maxar takes full position of 3D joint venture

Maxar Technologies is acquiring the remainder of a joint venture held with Saab and sees this deal as meeting customer demand for a lot of data about the Earth as soon as it can be taken in.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DynCorp's run of protests may not be what you think

DynCorp has five active protests ongoing which may be unusually high, but they say something important about the company.

  • By Nick Wakeman

How COVID has reshaped talent acquisition

Despite the restrictions of the pandemic, companies still are hiring and onboarding new employees. Here's a snapshot of what two companies are doing.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Accenture files new protest over Healthcare.gov contract loss

Accenture is arguing that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services didn't conduct a proper evaluation when it picked Deloitte to run the Healthcare.gov portal.

  • By Nick Wakeman

AE Industrial Partners-backed space tech firm makes first deal

Backed by AE Industrial Partners, Redwire has made its first acquisition since the space technology company formally launched in June.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GSA further sketches out the STARS III picture

A final call for bids is in the works, but the General Services Administration is giving 8(a) small businesses a broad look at the next STARS contract for IT services.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Post-COVID Clarity report covers benchmarks for GovCon

Deltek conducted the surveys for its annual Clarity report before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But the findings still provide important benchmarks around growth, business development, IT trends and overall challenges to the GovCon community.

  • By Nick Wakeman

With M&A sluggish, what will drive & shape the market's landscape?

Credit analysts at Moody's Investors Service view the last decade's mergers and acquisitions as helping build a more resilient group of companies, but they are looking at other factors as ones to shape the market amid the pandemic's pressure on deal activity.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Booz Allen pushes back on Marine Corps' audit requirement

When Booz Allen Hamilton won a spot on the Navy's $980 million Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness contract, there was no requirement for bidders to be certified as independent public accountants. So when the Marine Corps made it a requirement for a task order, Booz Allen said "No way."

  • By Nick Wakeman
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