Companies
How consulting firms acquire to iterate, and sometimes reinvent themselves
The intersection of consulting, integration and implementation is on full display when looking at our 2024 roundup of mergers and acquisitions. So too are the preceding years.
Contracts
Army wraps up awards for $379M training support contract
The Live Training Ranges and Combat Training Centers contract covers continues tech refreshments and other modernization work to aid in the readiness of soldiers.
Companies
The public company acquirer remains a unicorn in the M&A action
While in the minority, this group of serial buyers requires a different sort of attention and conversation given that they are publicly-traded and have to explain it all.
Companies
Retired Leidos exec shares how the company instilled agility into its corporate culture
Gerry Fasano looks back at a 41-year career and why his favorite job was leading the integration of the Lockheed Martin IS&GS services business into Leidos, which essentially created a new company.
Contracts
GSA chooses 9 for $919M supply chain monitoring software pact
The General Services Administration designed this blanket purchase agreement for other agencies to acquire tools that can help them vet suppliers and monitor for other risks to supply chains.
Contracts
Billions are on the line as DOGE, GSA increase scrutiny
A new analysis by TechnoMile looks at how exposed the General Services Administration's top 10 consulting firms could be, based on unexercised contract ceiling across three major spending categories.
Contracts
Leidos fights for another chance at $89B national biomedical lab contract
The company has supported the only federally-funded research and development center focused on medical research for 17 years, but a challenger has wrestled the contract away.
Contracts
DOD launches microelectronics research, development recompete
In keeping with past versions, the Defense Microelectronics Activity has structured the new contract to be broad in scope as it looks to bring in more modern computer chips for military systems.
Companies
ANALYSIS: Federal contractors navigate Trump administration uncertainty
Recent quarterly earnings calls by Science Applications International Corp. and Accenture reveal early some impacts as DOGE reviews create market anxiety.
Companies
International and growth leadership moves across the market
Plus a group that advocates for commercial tech companies brings in its new leader and a former GovCon CEO steps down from a board chairman role he held for three years.
Companies
SAIC clarifies its mission to the new administration amid heightened contractor scrutiny
In talking with Wall Street, Science Applications International Corp. executives summarize their experience two months into a new Trump administration and how they are explaining SAIC's role in the ecosystem.
Contracts
Army wraps up awards for $4.2B aerostat contract
Army officials set up the contract to support persistent detection, surveillance and targeting missions.
Companies
Accenture Federal faces second challenge to its Energy IT contract
DOGE nixes 10 task orders on the incumbent contract after a pair of competitors won a corrective action on the recompete.
Companies
Isakowitz to step down as Aerospace Corp. CEO
Steve Isakowitz has led the nonprofit space organization for 10 years and oversaw the relocation of its headquarters to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.
Companies
Bechtel promotes Volovar to lead government portfolio
The global construction giant's nuclear, security and environmental global business unit houses all of its U.S. and international public sector work.
Contracts
Energy to reconsider $3.5B IT contract award to Accenture
A pair of protests have prompted the department to take a second look at claims of improper pricing evaluation.
Contracts
Army wraps up awards for $921M training tech support contract
Maximum reuse of existing product components and service life extension are the Army's priorities here.
Companies
Health, operations and talent leadership moves across the market
Three former GovCon CEOs also take up seats at boards of directors, including a founder who sold her company to one of the market's blue bloods.
Companies
ICF lays out the risks, opportunities from Trump's push for cuts
The company has quantified the risks from actions like stop-work orders and contract terminations, but is also looking at the tech business as where some opportunity exists.
Contracts