With Shulkin out at VA, what happens to the Cerner deal?

The Department of Veterans Affairs looked set to ink a $10 billion deal for new health record software system. Then the secretary got fired.

Looking outside the Beltway for future tech talent

Leidos CEO Roger Krone is looking outside the Washington metro area for engineering and software hires.

ASGN closes ECS deal to enter federal market

ASGN has closed its $775 million acquisition of ECS Federal in a deal to enter the government IT market.

Opinion

Feast or famine? How will the new budget impact contract spending?

The Professional Services Council's David Berteau offers his insights and analysis on what the new 2018 budget might mean for federal contractors.

NIH finalizes 38 awards for CIO-SP3 small business

Thirty-eight companies are the final winners for the first on-ramp of the $20 billion National Institutes of Health CIO-SP3 Small Business contract for IT services.

Leidos books $117M FAA satellite development order

Leidos takes in a $117 million task order to develop a satellite used by the Federal Aviation Administration to help navigate aircraft.

Endeavor, QinetiQ NA to proceed on $429M Army ground robot contract

Endeavor Robotics and QinetiQ North America win places on a $429.1 million contract to build and deliver unmanned ground vehicles to the Army.

DataRobot gets investment from IC venture arm In-Q-Tel

Artificial intelligence and data science firm DataRobot receives an investment from In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's venture capital arm.

Army chooses six for $900M DOD-wide test, evaluation support contract

The Army chooses six companies for a $900 million contract to support tests and evaluations across the Defense Department.

Engility keeps $84M Navy warfare systems engineering work

Engility Corp. wins an $84 million recompeted contract to continue its systems engineering work on warfare systems for Navy platforms.

Raytheon's BBN arm tapped for Transportation Command simulation tool

Raytheon's BBN Technologies subsidiary will develop a tool for Transportation Command to assess the movement of military-related cargo and personnel.

SAIC feels no rush to pull trigger for scale

SAIC executives explain to Wall Street why they feel comfortable with the company's trajectory and current size in a consolidating government services market.

Battelle adds DNI vet Sullivan to board

Battelle adds three-decade intelligence community veteran Stephanie O'Sullivan to the board of directors.

Peraton books $41M Navy munition removal contract

Peraton takes in a nearly $41 million contract from the Navy to continue helping remove unexploded munitions worldwide.

Sizing up the General Dynamics IT-CSRA combination

General Dynamics has won the battle to acquire CSRA and create a top two federal IT player. We look at some of the latest numbers that show it.

CACI withdraws bid for CSRA, path clears for General Dynamics

CACI International withdraws its $7.2 billion cash-and-stock offer for CSRA to end a bidding war against General Dynamics.

FirstNet, Verizon announce core public safety networks

As FirstNet and AT&T launch the dedicated evolved packet core network to support first responders, Verizon announced general availability of its competing network.

Ernst & Young adds DOD IT vet Thomas to public sector team

Ernst & Young hires two-decade Defense Department IT veteran and White House Communications Agency Commander Cleo Thomas to the firm's public sector leadership team.

Our latest reader's guide to the GD-CSRA-CACI saga

We dove deep into the General Dynamics-CSRA combination and CACI International's subsequent effort to combine with CSRA, which GD successfully warded off with a sweetened offer. Here's a page that rounds up what we've done so far with a promise of more to come.

NIH heart institute awards $214M IT BPA

NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awards six spots on a $214 million IT services blanket purchase agreement.