Global consultancy grows A&D, government services M&A team

Global financial advisory firm Duff & Phelps expands its aerospace, defense and government services M&A practice with two key hires.

How General Dynamics is positioning IT beyond this transition year

General Dynamics' IT services shop is just as busy looking and casting its net outward for large opportunities as it is with integrating CSRA.

Blue Delta adds Morea, Hathiramani to advisory board

Blue Delta Capital Partners adds industry veterans in Donna Morea and Deepak Hathiramani to the investment firm's advisory board.

Vectrus hires former PAE exec Coracides

Vectrus adds 25-year veteran and former PAE executive Mario Coracides to the leadership team.

Army kicks off round 2 of 'DCGS' intell system competition

Palantir took round one earlier this year in the long-cycled program to support the Army's "DCGS" battlefield intelligence gathering system. Round two is now on the street with a big price tag.

Citizant adds three-decade vet Romola

Citizant adds nearly three-decade federal market veteran David Romola to the company's leadership team.

Peraton wins partial victory in battle for $655M Air Force contract

Peraton has won a court injunction to stop the Air Force from making a final award of a $655 million contract but it failed to convince the judge that a bridge contract should not have gone to its competitor.

Podcasts

More insights on General Dynamics' federal market strategy

In part two of this two-part podcast, General Dynamics Executive Vice President Chris Marzilli talks about the integration of CSRA and how the company is positioning itself for new opportunities from there.

Altamira swaps out ownership team

Altamira Technologies has been acquired by a private equity team led by ClearSky in an ownership change that leaves its leadership team in place.

How Lockheed thinks about scale in light of Raytheon-UTC mega deal

Questions about scale are ever present for government services companies but now are starting to be asked of the largest defense primes in light of the Raytheon-UTC mega deal. Lockheed Martin: you're up first.

Inside Octo's deal to go deeper into open source

Octo Consulting acquires an open source development firm to align with changes they see in how defense agencies buy software as all markets appear to be shifting in that direction. Just look at IBM-Red Hat.

Fast 50 deadline just days away

The deadline for nominations for the 2019 Washington Technology Fast 50 is rapidly approaching. Here's your chance to showcase how your company has grown over the last five years.

Former Agilex, Accenture execs launch new venture: Steampunk

A group of former Agilex executives who went to Accenture when they bought the company have acquired and are now rebranding SE Solutions as Steampunk: which will focus on the "collision" of humans and technology.

SPA makes deal to grow research offerings

Systems Planning and Analysis acquires Veracity to add more research and decision support services for agencies.

Podcasts

General Dynamics' Marzilli on strategy, outlook

Listen to our Top 100 interview with General Dynamics executive Chris Marzilli, who leads the Mission Systems and Information Technology businesses, as he shares the company's strategy and outlook in the first segment of a two-part podcast.

Unisys mourns loss of longtime exec Mark Cohn

Longtime Unisys Corp. executive Mark Cohn has died at age 66 after a battle with lung cancer.

With IPO behind them, Parsons revs up acquisition engine again

Parsons Corp. makes their first acquisition since the company returned to the public markets and this deal puts them in the defense hardware space.

Tick tock: How Raytheon-UTC megadeal came to be

Raytheon initiated the conversations that eventually led to its megamerger with United Technologies' aerospace and defense businesses. Newly-released filings detail the initial response and eventual coming together.

Navy takes one big and one small step toward unmanned future

The Navy's moves to put one unmanned vessel contract out for bid and make an award of a smaller pact for subsystem work gives a clearer glimpses into the future of unmanned vessels in the Navy.

Leidos secures $900M Air Force ISR order

Leidos can now officially proceed on an almost $900 million Air Force task order for ISR support services.