Higher price not a factor in Grant Thornton's $350M TSA win

Both competitors pitched significantly lower prices, but the Transportation Security Agency successfully defended its case for paying more to acquire Grant Thornton's solution.

GSA tries again at awards for $5.5B IT product vehicle

The General Services Administration makes a second attempt at awards for a $5.5 billion IT product vehicle primarily for the Air Force but available to all agencies.

Former Unisys Federal leader picks emerging small business as his next chapter

Former Unisys Federal President PV Puvvada is now the CEO of NetImpact, a small business pushing its way into the middle tier with digital transformation offerings.

Lumen voices objection over EIS security award to Verizon

Lumen Technologies is pushing back on a $157.6 million network security services award that went to Verizon.

Preferred Systems Solutions' leadership team nearly all-female with COO hire

Preferred Systems Solutions' new chief operating officer becomes the fifth woman to hold a senior position on the company's six-person leadership team.

DARPA extends call for new tech in Mosaic Warfare project

DARPA has extended the call for new technologies as part of its Mosaic Warfare project to create weapon packages that can extend U.S. dominance over adversaries.

Palantir inks partnership with IBM

Palantir and IBM have joined forces to bring more AI-enabled solutions to their customers.

Geeking out over the latest Mars mission

NASA mission to Mars is a test bed of technologies -- autonomy, miniaturization, telecommunications, software engineering. The lessons learned will be profound and it's also just damn cool stuff.

Applied Insight's latest acquisition adds intell firm

Applied Insight has acquired a company that specializes in cross-domain network solutions for the intelligence community.

Serco's US subsidiary further builds defense business with $295M acquisition

Serco Inc. is buying Whitney, Bradley & Brown for $295 billion in a deal that pushes the acquirer closer to its goal of $2 billion in annual revenue.

Protest challenges small biz joint venture's structure

This protest involving work on a remote Atlantic island is likely raising issues that will hit closer to home, namely the structure of small business joint ventures.

Leidos CEO recognized by National Academy of Engineering

Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone is elected to the National Academy of Engineering's latest class of inductees for contributions to the industry.

Cherokee Nation Businesses names new defense & civilian lead

John Boyle, a 25-year veteran of such large businesses, has been named the lead for defense and civilian solutions at Cherokee Nation Businesses.

Tech inclusion tracker expands its scope

The Tech Inclusion Tracker has opened its aperture beyond conferences to now also look at diversity and inclusion at boards of directors, TV shows and agency leadership.

IBM continues Army logistics modernization with third win

IBM continues its winning streak with the Army's Logistics Data Analysis Center, which is evolving its operations from pure logistics services to a center of data analytics and automation for the entire Army.

Gunnison adds chief growth officer

Gunnison continues to build the infrastructure needed to move into the middle tier as it adds 25-year industry veteran as its chief growth officer.

WT website outage explained

Washington Technology's website suffered a domain system issue Monday morning that made the site unreachable for about three hours.

DHS makes tweaks to $3.4B cloud contract

The Homeland Security Department has adjusted the due dates for submissions for its $3.4 billion cloud migration and integration contract, along with other tweaks to the requirements.

Accenture down but not out in battle for Healthcare.gov

The Government Accountability Office has ruled against Accenture's objections to the revised Healthecare.gov solicitation, but that doesn't knock the company out of the competition.

DHS readies new draft of $10B FirstSource III solicitation

By the end of this month, DHS will have a new draft of the solicitation for its $10 billion FirstSource III small business vehicle to support IT needs.