Contracts

FAA starts the bidding for new air traffic control system contract

The eventual winner will have three-and-a-half years to implement the new system.

Companies

Tech, finance and operations leadership moves across the market

Promotions and expanded duties also feature, both at one of the market's most high-profile startups and longest-standing players.

Contracts

Accenture challenges $1.6B CACI award

The contract will build a cloud-based platform to manage logistics operations for 36,000 Defense Department users.

Companies

Mpower Technology adds Lockheed's venture arm to its investor network

The Sandia National Laboratories spinout is pushing to scale production of its module that provides "solar glitter" for powering space systems.

Companies

How ICF used its own AI toolset before taking it to market

Agencies increasingly want to see proof points of how these technologies work before using them, which was on the company's mind as it built out the suite.

Contracts

DTRA awards $3.5B recompete of counter-WMD support contract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency uses this program to acquire research, training and other professional services to help partner countries fight the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Companies

SAIC-Google alliance targets AI at the tactical edge

Their partnership reflects a shift across the market toward more mission-driven collaborations over contract-specific arrangements.

Contracts

Contractors battle over $237M Army protective equipment award

Two companies challenge Amentum's win of a gear improvement program covering boots, uniforms, and sniper camouflage.

Companies

Growth, talent and finance leadership roles across the market

A handful of developments at boards of directors also feature, along with a new industry role for a former Food and Drug Administration tech leader.

Podcasts

WT 360: SAIC Ventures’ methods for investing in and working with tech startups

Michael Hauser, managing partner for Science Applications International Corp.’s venture capital arm, walks through how this part of the company works to bring emerging technologies forward after they invest in a young company.

Companies

Leidos sounds unfazed by GSA's push to centralize software buys

As Leidos CEO Tom Bell told a group of reporters, the company is "more interested in the system we can build around all of the widgets" to make technology work better for government.

Contracts

KBR wins $3.6B NASA health, human performance contract

The company keeps a role it has held since 2015 in helping NASA better understand health risks that come with spaceflight.

Companies

Leidos takes aim at maritime autonomy

The company wants to make waves in the surface and undersea drone markets amongst startup competitors.

Companies

V2X to acquire QinetiQ's US data, services business

This 70-employee unit provides data engineering, intelligence mission support and cyber solutions to national security agencies.

Companies

Amentum shows part of its hand for Golden Dome and nuclear power

In talking with Wall Street, Amentum executives detail some work the company is doing today on missile defense and data center energy with an eye toward larger opportunities.

Contracts

CACI wins $1.6B Transportation Command software contract

The company is tasked with helping TRANSCOM stand up a new platform and based it on commercially-available tools for supply chain management.

Companies

Maximus hopes its Air Force cyber win is just a starting point

In talking with Wall Street, CEO Bruce Caswell explained how the company's opportunity pipeline for defense work led it to the $77 million award.

Companies

How CACI views DOD's push for more commercial and consolidated software buys

In talking with Wall Street, CEO John Mengucci also describes how the company's portfolio in networks is driven by work on software.

Companies

Peraton hires SAIC, CACI vet as chief growth officer

Ravi Dankanikote will lead Peraton's enterprise growth strategy that includes its business development efforts and building of customer relationships.

Companies

Tech, growth and operations leadership moves across the market

One global commercial software provider brings in a new U.S. public sector leader, while USPTO's now-former chief information officer heads to the private sector.