Companies

ICF hires former Dovel finance chief

ICF's incoming chief financial officer will join in February from Dovel Technologies, where he was part of the company's executive team that led its growth and sale to Guidehouse.

Opinion

Five habits of incompetent leaders (and what to do about them)

Everyone should avoid working for a bad manager. Here are five signs of incompetence and what to do about them.

Contracts

Resume issue nixes contract win

Problems with the resume of a key person in a company's bid leads to a Government Accountability Office recommendation that firm both lose the contract and be kicked out of the competition.

Contracts

General Dynamics loses $2.7B cloud contract protest

General Dynamics IT's fight for another shot at a $2.7 billion Homeland Security cloud computing contract falls short.

Companies

Intelligent Waves promotes CEO as founder & owner steps back

Intelligent Waves' founder and owner hands over the chief executive role as he prepares to focus on being chairman of the board of directors and leading a second company he stood up.

Companies

Anduril's market inroads pay off with a $1B counter-unmanned system win

Notable defense tech startup Anduril Industries records a franchise win through this $1 billion Special Operations Command contract for technologies to counter unmanned systems.

Companies

Lumen touts $1.2B Agriculture telecom win

Lumen Technologies' latest booking from the EIS contract vehicle for network modernization is a $1.2 billion task order from the Agriculture Department.

Companies

Deloitte brings in former Space Force, Air Force tech official

Kim Crider, who held senior technology leadership roles at the Space Force and Air Force, joins Deloitte's government practice to work with agencies on adopting artificial intelligence and data analytics capabilities.

Companies

DMI hires Peraton vet as operations chief

Digital Management Inc. brings in a new chief operating officer to work with the CEO on driving the company's continued growth with its private equity backing.

Companies

Sigma Defense eyeing DOD networking effort with first acquisition

One year on from getting private equity backing, Sigma Defense closes on an acquisition it sees as helping the company position for the U.S. military's "JADC2" network architecture effort.

Contracts

CACI ruled ineligible for $774M Army encryption contract

A federal judge has ruled that CACI International should not have been allowed to bid on a $774 million Army encryption contract, so the question becomes why the branch evaluated the company's proposal at all.

Companies

Peraton hires new procurement chief

Peraton's new chief procurement officer will lead efforts to drive efficiency and reduce complexity in the company's overall supply chain.

Companies

Teledyne elevates new defense segment leader

Teledyne Technologies names a new executive vice president for its defense business who will lead the effort to make the most last year's FLIR acquisition.

Companies

BT Federal brings in former Cubic exec as CEO

BT Group appoints a new chief executive for the telecommunications giant's subsidiary focused on the U.S. government market that joins from Cubic Corp.

Companies

QinetiQ hires Northrop vet to lead US subsidiary

QinetiQ Group's U.S. arm wants to double in size to $600 million-annual revenue by its 2026 fiscal year and has named a new CEO to lead that pursuit.

Opinion

5 resolutions for your 2022 marketing plans

We have resolutions for 2022 but here is a reality check for your marketing plans and what will work and what won't this year and beyond.

Companies

In Gryphon, ManTech finds company pushing changes in engineering

In acquiring Gryphon Technologies, ManTech finds a company it sees as at the forefront of a very different model of engineering than the traditional document-based approach.

Contracts

CGI to build data environment for Interior's energy royalties

CGI Federal will help the Interior Department apply a pair of cloud-based tools to distribute royalties for oil and gas wells on tribal lands.

Contracts

PAE loses last shot at FBI background system

The third time wasn't a charm for PAE as it loses a bid protest over a contract to run an FBI system used for background investigations.

Contracts

M&A concerns nix $280M contract award

The Government Accountability Office told the Air Force it needs to analyze the impact of Amentum's acquisition of DynCorp International before awarding a $280 million task order.