19 years and counting

Editor Nick Wakeman looks back on his 19 years with Washington Technology and sees a market that is still challenging and fascinating with no shortage of good stories to tell.

Systems Planning and Analysis nabs $75.7M program support contract

Systems Planning and Analysis has won a potentially $75.7 million sole source contract to support Navy programs.

Lockheed Martin wins $11.6M contract mod to continue CASS support

Lockheed Martin has won an $11.6 million contract modification to continue its support of the Consolidated Automated Support System.

Agencies in need of application modernization, report finds

A recent MeriTalk report found that 92 percent of federal IT managers say that it is urgent for their agency to modernize legacy applications.

Comtech dishes out $430.8M to acquire TeleCommunication Systems Inc.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has acquired TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in a $430.8 million deal that brings TCS’ C4ISR and next-gen 911 services capabilities to Comtech.

Citizant wins $10M integration support contract

Citizant has won a $10 million technical integration support services contract to help deploy the IRS’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Cat applications.

Fairfax chamber adopts new regional name

The Fairfax County, Va., Chamber of Commerce wants to present more of a regional image and will begin calling itself the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce starting in January.

Sen. Warner's big tech opportunities

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia makes a case for his state's leadership in three big tech areas -- big data, cyber and unmanned systems.

Air Force adds large biz winners to $5B cyber contract

The Air Force has added ten large businesses to the winning pool of a $5 billion cybersecurity and information systems contract first named in October 2015.

Tecolote Research wins $7.3M acquisition support contract

Tecolote Research Inc. has won a $7.3 million task order with the Air Force to support the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate.

Splunk names new president and CEO

Splunk Inc. has appointed Doug Merritt to replace Godfrey Sullivan as the company’s president and chief executive officer.

Dell fighting for lost Education Department data center contract

Dell is putting up a fight for a $225 million incumbent contract it lost to HP to support a long-time customer, the Office of Federal Student Aid in Plano, Texas.

Integrators see their role grow as convergence hits IT management

Convergence is coming to how government agencies manage IT, according to immixGroup analysts, and the role of the systems integrator is bigger than ever.

Fiscal 2016 filled with defense opportunities

Defense agencies across the Defense Department have made their budget requests for fiscal 2016, and with those requests come a slew of defense opportunities for the contracting community.

Chameleon Integrated Services wins $63.5M in contracts for IT support

Chameleon Integrated Services has won $63.5 million in contracts to support the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Market faces mixed bag of opportunities, challenges

The recent budget deal doesn't mean fiscal issues are behind us as comments by U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and the findings of the PSC Vision market research report made abundantly clear.

LGS Innovations wins $9.5M contract to lay subsea telecom cables

LGS Innovations has won a $9.5 million contract to supply submarine telecommunication cables to the U.S. Navy’s Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center.

Tribalco acquires Alliant business unit of PROSOFT

Tribalco LLC has acquired the Alliant business unit of Professional Software Engineering, or PROSOFT.

Mach37 Cyber Acclerator accepting applications for Spring 2016 cohort

The Mach37 Cyber Accelerator has opened up the application period for its Spring 2016 cohort.

Alion taps new chief growth officer

Alion Science and Technology has named Gerry Decker chief growth officer.