Podcasts
PODCAST: How Booz Allen revved its M&A engine
Booz Allen Hamilton is no longer a stranger to making acquisitions. Chief Strategy Officer Matt Calderone explains why the company is indeed a buyer with two acquisitions last year and another in the works this year, but don't call them a consolidator.
Contracts
Guidehouse challenges NSA contract requirements
The National Security Agency wants help with its human resources operations, but Guidehouse argues that requirements in the solicitation are restricting competition.
Rankings
190 transactions that reshaped the market
Calendar year 2021 saw an explosion of merger-and acquisition-activity with 190 closed transactions. Our special report takes a dive into each deal, plus explores the buyers and what they purchased.
Companies
Why 2021 was a record year for mergers and acquisitions
The market saw 190 mergers and acquisitions close in 2021, far more than any prior year. Our analysis and coverage dives into who the buyers were and their reasons why, plus what it means for the federal market.
Opinion
Protests keep nagging at CIO-SP4
The National Institutes of Health's flagship IT contract faces new challenges from bidders angry about the number of revisions the agency made during the bidding process.
Contracts
General Dynamics secures $171M Army biomedical research contract
Under a $171 million contract, General Dynamics IT will help put together the peer review panels that will assess biomedical research projects for the Army.
Companies
SAIC says it's big enough for any competition
Even at $7.4 billion in annual revenue, Science Applications International Corp. faces investors' questions of whether it is big enough to compete for large enterprise IT contracts.
Contracts
General Dynamics raises objections over $11B DOD IT award
General Dynamics IT is challenging Leidos' win of an $11.5 billion contract to consolidate IT services across all of the Defense Department's administrative and support agencies.
Contracts
Army voices tech challenges as strategy shifts to near-peer adversaries
The ongoing shift away from the war on terrorism has the Army facing new technology challenges, so the service branch wants industry's help in bridging gaps it needs to close.
Contracts
Joint venture resurrects protest of $300M DHS contract
HeiTech-PAE saw an earlier protest rejected as premature but is back now complaining that the Homeland Security Department did exactly as feared -- pick someone else for a $300 million contract.
Companies
Robbins Gioia hires new CEO
Retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Wald joined the program management consulting firm earlier this year as its next chief executive.
Opinion
What COVID-19 taught me about cybersecurity
How COVID-19 risks are mitigated parallels how to approach cybersecurity and there's a lesson to be learned there about communications, specifically how effective cybersecurity conversations go beyond network administrators and other technology experts.
Contracts
MetTel secures Marine Corps telecommunications recompete
MetTel has won a chance to expand the connectivity services it provides to the Marine Corps' recruiting arm under a $58 million EIS task order.
Contracts
Deloitte protest pushes Army to reset energy support contract
Deloitte and Booz Allen Hamilton are battling to help the Army Corps of Engineers manage energy initiatives and a protest has knocked the competition back to square one.
Companies
Hawk Carlisle to step down from NDIA leadership
Retired Air Force Gen. Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle is stepping down as president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association: one of the major trade associations representing government contractors.
Contracts
Space Force starts work on IT support contract in Hawaii
Want to work from a remote mountain top in the Pacific Ocean region? Space Force might just have the contract for you.
Contracts
Denied protest offers lessons about hiring former feds
Important questions about hiring former government officials are raised in this lost protest over a $2.5 billion NASA enterprise IT contract, which all parties made reasonable arguments in.
Opinion
Is it time to rework set-asides for Alaska Native Corporations?
Alaska Native Corporations and tribally-owned small businesses deserve special consideration in contracting. But given their size and resources, is it fair that they compete against other types of small businesses?
Contracts
Deloitte, ManTech get another chance at $2B Defense Health Agency contract
The Defense Health Agency will look at conflict of interest allegations leveled against Peraton and regarding how that company won a $2 billion enterprise IT contract.
Contracts