Will lightning strike again for Global Strategies Group?

The Global Strategies Group, the company that built what is now known as Sotera Defense Solutions, is getting back into the market with a new platform and money to spend. Editor Nick Wakeman sees this as a sign that the market might be getting ready to turn in a positive direction. Is he right?

  • By Nick Wakeman

CACI loses fight to keep intell contract

CACI International lost its fight to keep a Defense Intelligence Agency contract after GAO denied its protest. The winner, Mission Essential Personnel, will now take over CACI's work supplying analysts to DOD for litigation involving Guantanamo Bay detainees.

  • By Nick Wakeman

BAE, Lockheed win U.S.-U.K. navy engineering contracts

Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems have each won sole-source contracts worth nearly $300 million to support the U.S. and British navies with their nuclear submarine and weapons programs.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Vistronix closes second deal

Vistronix closed its second acquisition this week with the purchase of KSSI as it continues to build out its big data, cyber and cloud capabilities.

  • By Nick Wakeman

AECOM to continue Afghan intell support

AECOM awarded a $10 million modification to an Army contract to collect and monitor trends on how local in Afghanistan feel about U.S. troops and policies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

7 win $80M boost to Army rapid response contract

The Army Research Lab has incrased the ceiling on a multiple-award contract used to support a rapid response activities by special operations, intelligence and other military units.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Opinion

Weak processes stymie DOD cost-control efforts

While solving the overarching fiscal impasse is out of DOD's control, there is plenty the department can and should be doing to reduce costs and operate more efficiently; however, the problem is that no one seems to be doing it. PSC President Stan Soloway explains.

  • By Stan Soloway

Navy adds 914 firms to Seaport-e

That's no typo; the Navy really added another 914 companies to the Seaport-e contract, pushing the total number of primes to over 2,500. Do large numbers make it a success story?

  • By Nick Wakeman

Five win $43M Navy modeling, simulation contract

Five companies will compete for task orders to help the Navy with modeling and simulation efforts around warfighting, manpower and fleet readiness.

  • By Nick Wakeman

BAE prevails in protest of Raytheon jammers win

BAE Systems has prevailed in its protest of a Navy decision to award the next generation jammer contract to Raytheon. The win had put Raytheon on track for billions in follow-on work, but now source selection will start over.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Is NetCents a victim of a broken system?

A group of former acquisition officials with close ties to NetCents’ home base at Gunter Annex argue that the procurement’s troubles stem from a byzantine process that overcomplicated the procurement.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Harris blames pricing, adultery for lost NGEN contract

Harris Corp. accused the Navy of not properly evaluating pricing and not conducting a thorough investigation of the NGEN program manager's affair with another contractor.

  • By Nick Wakeman

HP prevails in protest fight for $3.5B Navy NGEN contract

HP got quite the Halloween treat in its goody bag as the Government Accountability Office denied Harris' protest of its $3.5 billion Navy NGEN award.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Lockheed fights for lost radar contract

Lockheed Martin is fighting to hang onto a $30 million contract to develop a new radar system for the Navy that it lost to one of its biggest rivals.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SI Org captures $83.7M Air Force systems engineering, integration contract

The SI Organization has won a $83.7 million contract to provide the Air Force with systems engineering and integration technical support.

  • By Mark Hoover

Nominations open for FCW’s 25th Annual Federal 100 Awards

The nomination period for FCW’s 25th Annual Federal 100 Awards is now open, with a deadline of Dec. 23.

  • By Mark Hoover

Is the NetCents II nightmare over?

At one point, the Air Force sounded like it was ready to fight for its decision involving the $6.9 billion NetCents II Products contract, but that resolve might be fizzling as at least two of the eight protestors have been told to stand by for new award decisions.

  • By Nick Wakeman

12 companies share $4.1B Army contract

Ten large businesses and two small businesses win spots on the Army's $4.1 billion contract to improve battlefield communications. Who has been picked to compete for satellite and transmission services?

  • By Nick Wakeman

Army gets OK for $175M network overhaul

The Army is planning to restructure how it secures its computer networks as it shifts to a more centralized approach, and it plans to spend $175 million to do it.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Accenture, IBM to battle for Navy data analytics work

Accenture and IBM have each won contracts with the Navy to help improve the business processes and data operations of the Naval Supply Systems Command.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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