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TOP 100: How Serco Inc. uses its pivot to position for Trump priorities
Company No. 30 on our 2025 Top 100 has made acquisitions and technology investments to align it with the administration’s push for greater efficiency, lethality and modernization.
Companies
SecDef’s recipe for procurement: A dash of DOGE with a pinch of Obama
The Defense Department’s recent contracting directives are sweeping, but will they be successful?
Companies
Radiance expands defense footprint with Verus Research buy
Radiance looks to strengthen its position in directed energy, space systems and emerging defense technologies.
Companies
Google is ‘all in’ on government business
The company’s cloud offering for government customers achieved more important security milestones last week, allowing it’s tech tools to be used in the most sensitive, classified environments.
Contracts
Pentagon heightens scrutiny on IT, management consulting contracts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's newest directive for the department zeroes in on providers of “system IT integration, implementation, or advisory services."
Contracts
The acquisition rule (re)writers really want you to have your say
Industry will get visibility into and be able to weigh in on efforts by the GSA, Defense Department and NASA to reform the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Companies
Leidos bets on offensive cyber with $300M Kudu acquisition
The purchase seeks to fulfill growing demand for converged cyber-electronic warfare solutions.
Companies
How GRVTY centers its vision around the automated intelligence enterprise
The defense tech industry is being forced to be more creative than it has been in recent times. But as GRVTY's CEO Katie Selbe explains to us, this new company is just fine with that.
Opinion
Don’t limit defense innovation by capping small-biz awards
A proposed change to the Small Business Innovation Research program would deprive the military of some of its best problem-solvers, writes Robert Smith, former director of the Navy's SBIR/STTR programs.
Companies
Serco's US arm closes $327M acquisition of Northrop's training business
Serco Inc. pushes its annual revenue past $2 billion and adds 1,000 employees to the now-10,000-person workforce.
Contracts
MDA previews $151B contract for Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system
A draft solicitation is imminent for the 10-year, multiple-award vehicle being called SHIELD.
Contracts
Air Force opens proposal window for $485M cyber training contract
Work will support a squadron charged with providing initial and advanced information operations and cyber training across the Air Force.
Contracts
Incumbent SAIC fights exclusion from $972M Air Force contract
The company is taking issue with its removal from the competitive range for this modeling and simulation support award.
Companies
Vibrint expands defense tech capabilities with Ampsight buy
The acquirer is looking to strengthen its artificial intelligence, cloud and cyber offerings for national security and geospatial intelligence customers.
Contracts
Pacific multidomain task forces are looking for long-range drones
MDTFs are getting their chance to experiment as Transformation-in-Contact units.
Companies
Copper River expands health care presence with acquisition
The Alaska Native-owned company is looking to offer more medical services for government clients.
Contracts
Air Force Research Lab seeks support for IT modernization initiatives
The agency wants to hire a small business that can support research operations with artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and cloud migration services.
Contracts
Pentagon seeks input on plan to streamline software authorizations
A new request for information follows a promise made by Katie Arrington to overhaul how the Defense Department runs its authority-to-operate process.
Contracts
‘Gimmicks’: GOP lawmakers slam Trump’s ‘trillion-dollar’ defense-spending proposal
White House claims of a 13% increase rest on unusual budgetary maneuvers, not a higher DOD topline.
Contracts