Opinion

How to target the government's big data sweet spot

If you want to harness the rising tide of big data and analytics opportunities, there are three targets you need to focus on.

SAIC scores $70M professional services contract

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $70 million contract with the Federal Aviation Administration to support its Office of Aviation Safety.

Second draft Alliant 2 RFP hits the street

The General Services Administration issued the second draft request for proposals of the $50 billion Alliant 2 Unrestricted governmentwide acquisition contract.

Booz Allen, Splunk join forces to combat cybersecurity risks

Booz Allen Hamilton and Splunk are joining forces to deliver predictive security analytics and operationalize threat intelligence.

Accenture, Amazon Web Services form business group, aim to boost cloud migration

Accenture and Amazon Web Services are teaming up make migration to the cloud easier for federal agencies.

$350M intell contract faces bid protests

The Defense Intelligence Agency contract known as DORE is facing at least two bid protests, and we still haven't heard from two incumbents who lost on the recompete.

Northrop restructures. Is a spin-off next?

Northrop Grumman is breaking up its Information Systems sector in a move that the company says better positions itself to serve customers. That's true, but is something else also afoot?

Abt Associates captures $20M contract to support Zimbabwean malaria management

Abt Associates has won a $20 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development to assist Zimbabwe in managing malaria.

CACI gets $22M ATF task order for enterprise content management

CACI International has won a $22 million task order to provide enterprise content management services for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

MacAulay-Brown nabs $49M contract to support research centers

MacAulay-Brown has won a $49 million contract with the Air Force Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering and Management to support research centers.

Booz Allen wins $43.3M contract to support air traffic control division

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a $43.3 million contract to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s air traffic control division.

L-3 bolsters sensor processing with ForceX deal

L-3 Communications furthers its repositioning with the acquisition of ForceX, a company steeped in ISR mission management and geospatial applications.

Opinion

Cutting layers of management exposes strategic risks

The trend in recent years has been to cut layers of management, but without an understanding of the risk and a realistic strategic vision, these cuts will make growth even harder to come by.

Protests net new awards for SOCOM's $450M mission support services contract

The U.S. Special Operations Command has given in to a pair of bid protests and added all remaining bidders to a $450 million support services contract originally awarded in August 2015.

ICF nabs $21.9M in task orders to support CDC

ICF International has won two task orders totaling $21.9 million to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

WBB scores program management subcontract

WBB has won a subcontract with Amelex to provide program management services to the F-35 Joint Program Office.

Dell-EMC: Let the revolution begin

Dell's $67 billion deal for EMC makes good on Michael Dell's 2013 promise to remake Dell and puts what we once saw as just a PC maker into the heart of the enterprise.

GAO: Northrop faces competitive disadvantage. So what?

Northrop Grumman won a $109 million DISA contract, but the company has to try to win it again thanks to a bid protest.

Deloitte to support USAID on energy strategies in Vietnam

Deloitte Consulting of Arlington, Va., received a $9.4 million contract from the U.S. Agency on International Development to support the Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP).

CACI International nabs $90M contract to support FEMA public warning system

CACI International has won a $90 million contract to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Public Warning System.