Uncertainty in the market place isn't deterring SAIC's growth plans as it focuses on keeping its current customers happy and targeting new opportunities in cybersecurity and driving down IT infrastructure costs.
L-3 Communications is using mergers and acquisitions as a tool to position the company for growth opportunities around big data, cyber and sensors with civilian, defense and intelligence customers.
Northrop Grumman is focused on international opportunities as a way to counter contraction in the U.S. market and its taking its core -- cyber, C4ISR, unmanned and logistics -- global.
The government market has shown real signs of improvement and executives at a Deltek conference expressed optimism. Where do they see the signs of a market on the rise?
FireEye's $843.5 million acqiusition of Mandiant was the best cyber-related deal of 2013, but it's also a lesson on the power of strategic partnerships and identifying complementary capabilities.
Cisco Systems knew it needed to take a more holistic approach to security, and its $2.7 billion acquisition of SourceFire is seen as a major step in that direction.
With $20 billion in the pipeline for Afghan reconstruction, the special IG tracking the work wants closer ties with contractors to tap lessons learned and for fighting corruption and barriers to competition.
Retired Coast Guard admiral and Booz Allen executive Thad Allen explains the dangers to critical infrastructures as they face natural and man-made threats made all the more complex because of growing cybersecurity dangers.
Founder and CEO George Pedersen focuses on intell, cyber and health care as company works through the revenue hit of the Afghan drawdown. ManTech holds steady as a top 20 contractor on the 2013 Washington Technology Top 100 company.
New CACI CEO Ken Asbury leads with business development as a primary focus for the company's growth but don't think that merges and acquisitions are going to be forgotten.
With a new slate of leaders running the company General Dynamics puts its focus on meeting its customers' missions with offerings built around mobile, IT, mission support and ISR.
Budget cuts, gridlock in Congress, regulatory burdens, rising corporate costs and a climate of fiscal uncertainty are proving more troublesome for smaller government contractors, but some are seeing some signs for optimism.