The new fiscal year begins with a stopgap funding bill and the extension of a key mechanism government contractors see as helping them keep employees on the payroll during the pandemic, but both are set to expire in December.
Sixteen months after one acquisition, health IT company DLH's latest deal adds more research and systems development work for Defense Department agencies.
Geospark Analytics is undertaking a leadership transition at the very top as the geospatial and data analytics startup gets ready for the next phase of its strategy.
Ground now broken, Huntington Ingalls Industries' unmanned center of excellence is all about positioning the company for the same kind of leadership in that domain as in larger manned ships. HII's unmanned systems business leader shares how the center will work and what is to come.
The Air Force makes a second round of awards for Skyborg -- its program to develop future unmanned aerial vehicles that can use artificial intelligence in working with their manned counterparts.
Northrop Grumman secures a $690 million contract to work with the Defense Intelligence Agency on building a new data environment for housing information.
Tetra Tech makes another acquisition in its continued push to add more technology and analytics work as a complement and perhaps even core to the engineering and construction business.
A dialogue had been long established, but the final leg of talks for Amentum to acquire DynCorp International almost exclusively happened through remote due diligence. The CEO of Amentum sees that shift as mirroring what is happening across the government market.
After multiple protests, Special Operations Command makes a second attempt at awards on a $950 million small business set-aside contract for engineering and other professional services.
Not even a year after its creation, Amentum did not wait long to be a buyer and has announced a deal to acquire DynCorp in a deal that brings new customers and broader capabilities as Amentum's CEO explains.
Octo got an endorsement of its strategy and place in the government market when it got backing from Arlington Capital Partners. The second year of that investment means Octo is now in what it calls "Octo 3.0."
Veritas Capital is a well known in the government market and is reportedly working with an activist investor to buy Cubic Corp. But while Elliott Management may be an unknown to the sector, they hardly are to Veritas and the overall universe of publicly-traded companies.
Industrial component maker Curtiss-Wright is continuing its push into more government business, this time through a $400 million deal to buy military communications technology firm PacStar.
With merely a week to go, the House passes a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through Dec. 11 and extend a provision contractors see as helping them get through the pandemic.
AT&T and the Air Force are expanding an OTA to bring 5G and other new "networking-as-a-service" capabilities to three bases, bringing many of the same services AT&T offers in the commercial market.
Cubic Corp. has become another government contractor to draw the attention of an activist investor, which is making clear its intentions to acquire the defense and transportation company.
