Growth looks certain, but Leidos keeps 'careful eye' on broader trends

Conditions are right for Leidos to keep growing, but the company also sounds semi-cautious about how the economic landscape might shift around it.

Lockheed promotes new HR leader from within

Lockheed Martin elevates the human resources lead for one of its business segments to head HR for the entire company.

Peraton sails forward with unmanned Navy work

Peraton is building capabilities and winning contracts around the Navy's unmanned vessel initiatives and sees expanding opportunities ahead.

Pacstar's evolution continues on the tactical edge

Pacstar has morphed from being a comms reseller to providing the equipment and technology on the battlefield. Next up is bringing ways to harness data and artificial intelligence at the tactical edge.

Is Verizon winning its LPTA battle with DISA?

Verizon has filed a pair of protests involving the use LPTA for a DISA task order to provide communications services to the Air Force. Each protest has pushed the Air Force to take a corrective action, but will it finally abandon LPTA?

NGEN aside, Perspecta reports strong results

Yes, Perspecta has lost the NGEN competition but while it ponders a bid protest, the company has reported growth thanks to several new large contract wins.

Score one for AWS; judge grants JEDI injunction

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has granted an injunction stopping work on DOD's JEDI cloud contract while AWS' protest is still pending.

Jacobs hires new cyber unit chief

Jacobs brings aboard an almost two-decade government market veteran to lead its cyber business.

E3/Sentinel's board adds intell community vet Gordon

E/3 Sentinel’s board of directors has appointed former longtime intelligence community executive Sue Gordon as a new member.

Opinion

The simple act of being on LinkedIn is marketing

Marketing occurs with every action, or inaction, in our business lives. When we attend events, meet one-on-one, and when we use social media. Everything you do defines something about you and in turn, your company. And this includes LinkedIn.

What we can learn from PAE's public company debut

PAE's debut as public company brings more insights into its financials. Just as significant are the insights into its customer mix, growth objectives and company structure.

SAIC adds three-decade vet Goldstein

Science Applications International Corp. hires three-decade defense sector veteran and Air Force Reserve Maj. Gen. Scott Goldstein.

Applied Insight targets broader cloud services with latest acquisition

Applied Insight makes acquisition number four since its launch two years ago and this latest deal eyes expansion in cloud management offerings.

IBM battles for $787M Army contract

IBM is objecting to how the Army chose Accenture for a $786.7 million enterprise resource planning support contract.

SOSi makes new analytics-focused acquisition

SOS International recently turned the page on celebrating its 30th anniversary and now makes acquisition number five over the past four years.

Carahsoft adds Splunk to $820M BPA

Splunk has been added as part of Carahsoft's $820.4 million BPA to sell software to the Navy.

AWS wants Trump deposition as part of JEDI fight

Amazon Web Services is going right to the top in its protest of the JEDI cloud infrastructure contract awarded to Microsoft by asking for deposition of President Trump and several high level DOD officials.

SAIC again takes $655M Air Force space support contract

For the second time, Science Applications International Corp. has won a $655 million Air Force contract to support systems that help control military satellites.

Arlington-backed Aegis shuffles exec team

Aegis Technologies makes an initial executive hire and promotes two other leaders as it charts its next phase of growth with the assist of Arlington Capital Partners.

Small businesses face tough choices on growth

As small businesses grow, they reach a point where they must pick a new path forward. Panelists at our M&A Outlook event discuss the choices small businesses if they want to keep growing.