Staff writer Ethan Butterfield moderated an online forum featuring Guy Timberlake of the American Small Business Coalition.<br><a href="http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/forum/forums/29527-2.html">Transcript</a>
BAE Systems has completed its $8.7 million acquisition of National Sensor Systems, a company that develops and manufactures advanced optical systems primarily for the aerospace and defense industry.
Officials from the White House and Small Business Administration formally unveiled a revamped Web site that provides small businesses with a compendium of federal regulations information.
A Defense Department-funded group that helps to accelerate commercializing military technologies is accepting applications from government laboratories, academic researchers and small entrepreneurs and businesses that have developed new technologies.
The Transportation Security Administration now must adhere to the same small-business procurement goals as other federal agencies, according to a provision adopted by Congress in the fiscal 2007 homeland security appropriations bill.
In a move to bolster its service-oriented architecture and asset management business, IBM Corp. has completed the acquisition of MRO Software Inc. for $740 million.
SRA International Inc. is revving up its acquisition engine again, this time to acquire RABA Technologies LLC, a provider of technical services to national security and intelligence agencies.
Public capital markets have been receptive to federal IT companies since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since then, more than $4 billion of equity has been raised for federal companies via initial or follow-on public offerings.
