Inside the 2018 class of Industry Innovators

The public sector market is a hot bed of innovation and we've picked the 2018 class of Industry Innovators as the best examples of how government contractors are solving some of the most challenging problems in the market.

Calibre picks up Spear

Calibre Systems purchases fellow government IT services company Spear Inc.

Booz Allen wins $1B VA IT contract

Booz Allen Hamilton takes an almost $1 billion task order for IT operations and services for the Veterans Affairs Department.

DigitalGlobe grows key satellite imagery contract, adds cloud infrastructure job

DigitalGlobe books a second follow-on award to its key satellite imagery contract for federal agencies and adds a second award for cloud computing integration.

Who are GovCon's best for 2018?

Four companies and three executives were picked as the best of the year at the annual Greater Washington Contractor Award gala Monday night, during which ManTech's George Pedersen was inducted into the GovCon Hall of Fame.

Amazon narrows HQ2 sites, GovCon getting nervous

The competition for Amazon's second headquarters is getting tighter with the D.C. region seen as a front-runner. And the impact on the job market has government contractors fretting.

Peraton names Alan Stewart CFO

Peraton appoints four-decade federal market veteran Alan Stewart as chief financial officer.

PBGC awards TeraThink $100M IT services contract

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation awards a $100 million contract to TeraThink for IT services.

Splunk taps new public sector leader

Frank Dimina has been appointed vice president of Splunk's public sector business.

Analytic Services buys Domain X to grow defense, homeland security presence

Nonprofit institute Analytic Services Inc. acquires Domain X Technologies to increase footprints with the Defense and Homeland Security Departments.

How SAIC's 'Innovation Factory' & Red Hat pact explain the commercial IT push

How SAIC's new "Innovation Factory" to test and deploy technologies quickly with Red Hat as the initial partner feeds into the larger story of how federal systems integrators want to be a bridge to agencies for commercial tools.

Buchanan & Edwards hires Shintani as chief growth officer

Buchanan & Edwards hires nearly three-decade government IT market veteran Cal Shintani as chief growth officer.

Noblis hires General Dynamics vet Barnett as CTO

Noblis hires General Dynamics IT veteran Chris Barnett as chief technology officer.

Five winning strategies for attracting top talent

In today’s professional services market, competition for talent is more intense than ever so it is worth rethinking how your firm positions itself to attract the best talent. Here are five strategies to help you gain a competitive advantage.

CACI & industry peers unfazed by midterm election, near-term budget outlook

CACI International is the latest public government IT and services company to show lack of concern over the midterm election and what that could mean for budgets. Here is what they and their peers have said.

DHS ITOSS contract struggles to shed protest problems

GAO has denied the latest round of protests involving DHS' almost $200 million "ITOSS" contract but the door is still open for more.

Parsons brings together federal, infrastructure units

Parsons Corp. consolidates federal and infrastructure business units into a single structure and names a chief operating officer.

Interior adds three to $235M financial system support contract

The Interior Department adds three more companies to a $235 million contract for maintenance and support of Oracle-based financial and accounting systems.

Accenture Federal hires Johns Hopkins APL vet Ian McCulloh

Accenture Federal Services hires Ian McCulloh, former chief scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Cobham U.S. division makes COO, CFO hires

A U.S. division of British defense contractor Cobham brings on board a pair of C-level executive hires to support growth and compliance.