Each year on the Top 100, a few companies make moves that are especially eye-catching. Sometimes it's just the luck of the draw. A contract or two heats up beyond expectations, and a company pops onto the list. The contract cools, and the next year the company disappears.
When Joseph Kampf started building Anteon International Corp. back in 1996, his vision was a simple one. He and his backers at private equity group Caxton-Iseman Capital Inc. foresaw a changing acquisition environment, with government buyers buying products and services more like the commercial market did.
The second time around might be the charm for Logistics Applications Inc., which has had to wait more than a year to take over its largest contract win ever.
It's unlikely that CBs ever will make a comeback, but the desire that fueled their popularity lives on. Whether it is cell phones, hybrid personal digital assistants or tablet PCs, we love wireless.
The military could use some simple diagnostic systems for its military vehicles like those being installed on civilian vehicles, a top Army general told the Northern Virginia chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Friday.
The first time I visited my brother in El Paso, Texas, we drove along the border on Interstate 10. "There's Mexico," he said, pointing to the city of Juarez.
One of the gratifying things about my move from deputy editor to editor of Washington Technology is that it gave me a chance to move someone up into my old spot.
A-76 competitions may be one of those issues that, if industry isn't happy with it and the unions aren't happy with it, maybe the process is just about right.
Layoffs and executive shifts at GTSI Corp. are emblematic of more than just turmoil at one of the government market's most recognizable companies. GTSI's problems are the latest in a nearly decade-long slide in the classic government reseller business.
Jim Ballard has been named president of Perot Systems Corp.'s government services business, replacing Greg Bedner, who is taking what the company calls a "senior leadership" position to direct long-range government business development.
Car bombs, mortars and death threats ? the morning commute doesn't seem as stressful after reading Roseanne Gerin's cover story on contractors working in Iraq.
Washington Technology kicks off its 20th anniversary year not with a look back, but with a look forward. We've distilled the sea of policy issues, technology trends and emerging markets to the 20 that are ? or should be ? top of mind for systems integrators, IT services companies and resellers in the government market.
