Contracts
Accenture prevails in battle for $3.5B Energy contract
Accenture's federal subsidiary clears an investigation over an alleged conflict-of-interest and will continue providing enterprise IT and business support services.
Companies
American Systems acquires managed IT, cyber provider
American Systems adds 400 new employee-owners to its staff via the company's largest-ever acquisition.
Companies
SAIC's challenges are hardly unique, but still put pressure on its outlook
In talking with Wall Street, CEO Toni Townes-Whitley gets candid about the market's volatility and how the company has pulled back some of its expectations.
Podcasts
WT 360: ICF’s pillars for its technology modernization outlook and approach
David Birken, senior vice president for digital modernization and experience at ICF, joins to go over some keys for mapping technology implementations to workforce trends and what customer delivery looks like in today’s landscape.
Companies
Microsoft hires SAP vet as corporate federal VP
Carmen Krueger joins Microsoft to help oversee its federal strategy focused on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Companies
A handful of acquisitions to note as September starts
Data analysis, electromagnetic systems, automation and simulation represent the tech drivers of these purchases.
Companies
Shift5 closes $75M Series C round
The seven-year-old cyber startup focuses on operational technology and touts a network of investors including Booz Allen Hamilton's venture arm, AE Industrial Partners and Insight Partners.
Contracts
Aerodyne-Amentum venture wins $1.8B NASA contract
The new contract is called COSMOS and includes support for systems used in NASA's primary mission control center.
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.
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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.
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