Terran Orbital is the latest 'Space SPAC' & has backers

We readily admit to losing count of all the so-called “Space SPACs” that either have or are hitting the market with Terran Orbital being the latest to choose that route to the public markets, but the small satellite maker's direct listing is also in part about its backers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GovernmentCIO touts $875M DEA IT consolidation award

Via a recent acquisition, GovernmentCIO can tout an $875 million task order to help the Drug Enforcement Administration consolidate its enterprise IT systems into a single integrated infrastructure.

  • By Washington Technology staff

L3Harris tightening its supply chain microscope amid broader disruption

Add L3Harris Technologies to the running tally of government contracting companies that see disruptions both in the broader supply chains and those they have tighter control over. Here is what L3Harris is doing about it in the meantime.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NSA told to rethink $10B cloud award to Amazon Web Services

Microsoft has scored a major victory over rival Amazon Web Services through a favorable bid protest decision that tells the National Security Agency to rethink a $10 billion cloud services award to AWS.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Booz Allen puts new date on facility reopening as its 'Future of Work' takes shape

Booz Allen Hamilton's workforce agenda has two main parts to it: reopening company facilities, which will drive its "Future of Work" vision, but there also is the challenge of the vaccine mandate.

  • By Ross Wilkers

George Wilson calling it a career at ECS Federal

George Wilson is set to retire from ECS Federal after 11 years including seven as president, during which the business hit the $1 billion revenue milestone he set a few years ago.

  • By Nick Wakeman

How General Dynamics IT handled the aftermath of George Floyd's death

In many ways, General Dynamics IT was in uncharted waters following the killing of George Floyd. GDIT President Amy Gilliland shares some of the actions she took during the aftermath and where they are focused now.

  • By Nick Wakeman

CACI gives just a glimpse of its two latest acquisitions

CACI International is happy to talk up its identity as a serial acquirer in the government market but it would only share so much about its two latest transactions.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Companies

How CACI, Northrop see today's supply chain & labor megatrends

Supply chain disruption and labor constraints go hand-in-hand in today’s environment, according to several large publicly traded government contractors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Maximus secures $323M SEC document filing system modernization award

Via one of its most recent acquisitions, Maximus has booked a new contract to continue helping the Securities and Exchange Commission modernize the online filing system that houses information on companies.

  • By Washington Technology staff

General Dynamics sees chip supply issue continuing into next year

Sizing up the global computer chip shortage's impacts on the government technology landscape can get tough, however General Dynamics is one company that continues to see it first-hand.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Opinion

4 crucial considerations as your business grows beyond a small business designation

A veteran of the small business world offers sage advice on four crucial consideration to prepare for when your company leaves the confines of the small business tier.

  • By Walter Barnes III

Supply chain clouds looming over defense industrial base

Global problems in the supply chain are impacting the defense industrial base and two of its largest members reported their third quarter financial results to investors Tuesday that illuminate those exact headwinds.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Sev1Tech breaks $250M revenue mark with acquisition

Sev1Tech is acquiring Geocent to add more DevSecOps and engineering services capabilities around a stable of IT modernization, cybersecurity and cloud services offerings.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Amy Gilliland on how COVID led General Dynamics IT to rethink employee relations

As the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, General Dynamics' IT services business undertook a rethinking of the way it recruited, retained and developed its employees. GDIT's president Amy Gilliland explains how the business went through that process of reimagination and reinvention.

  • By Nick Wakeman

OceanSound adds another middle tier platform with DMI backing

Private equity firm OceanSound Partners has acquired the company better known as DMI, which gives the former another middle-tier business in the federal market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Orolia's latest acquisition builds on ultra-precise tech solutions

Orolia has acquired Seven Solutions to add a technology that was developed at a particle accelerator complex for increasing the accuracy of networks.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Cybersecurity challenges drive adoption of zero trust

Executives at this Washington Technology Executive Perspectives roundtable described how the type of threats in today's cybersecurity landscape are well known, but the frequency of attacks and types of targets continue to grow.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Amentum again hits accelerator with PAE acquisition

Amentum in year one of its relaunch as a standalone company went out and acquired DynCorp International. Now in year two, Amentum has set its sights on a second major transaction and this time it's buying PAE.

  • By Ross Wilkers

State Department offers glimpse of $8B IT services contract ahead of industry day

The State Department's industry day for this multiple-award, $8 billion IT services contract is just around the corner and the agency already has an idea of how it wants to divide up the work.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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