Contracts

Omni Federal awarded $427M background check IT modernization contract

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency sought a managed service provider amid ongoing efforts to enroll all federal employees in continuous vetting.

Contracts

Patent Office seeks to grow AI innovation ecosystem, cut application backlog

Automation, new code, workflow improvements and secure cloud access are key focus areas in a Patent and Trademark Office's sources sought notice.

Companies

CAE's chief executive transition and more moves to note

Several key hires and promotions in functions such as operations, business development and technology also feature.

Podcasts

WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on international companies and their US ambitions

Lauren Williams, our Defense One senior editor colleague focused on technology and business, jumps in to explain why companies headquartered outside the U.S. want a bigger footing there amid all the tariff and economic turbulence.

Companies

Parsons' agenda for 2025 after zeroing out State Department contract

In talking with a Wall Street audience, chief executive Carey Smith explains why Parsons is not counting on anything from that program. Then the conversation turns to air traffic control modernization and missile defense work, including potentially Golden Dome.

Companies

General Dynamics reshuffles senior executive responsibilities

This move includes the creation of a new company-wide role called executive vice president of global operations.

Companies

Impulse Space closes $300M Series C round

RTX Ventures and Airbus Ventures are returning as investors to support the next phase of this startup's strategy for revolutionizing space transportation.

Companies

Where SAIC's attention is now following GSA, other customer dialogue

In talking with Wall Street, CEO Toni Townes-Whitley emphasizes the commercial-like delivery model for enterprise and mission IT solutions as key to Science Applications International Corp.'s future. Which is the kind of model its customer set wants anyway.

Contracts

Amentum wins $4B Space Force range contract

Space Force officials set up this recompete to support its ongoing work on transforming a pair of ranges into spaceports for government and commercial operators.

Contracts

GSA expands contract reviews to resellers

The General Services Administration is seeking price breakdowns and other information from 10 technology product suppliers as part of GSA's OneGov push to streamline procurement.

Companies

Voyager sets the size, specs of its IPO

The space and defense systems manufacturer quantifies what it hopes to achieve in the pending initial public offering.

Companies

Infleqtion closes $100M Series C round

The 18-year-old quantum tech company now counts Science Applications International Corp.'s ventures arm as an investor and go-to-market partner.

Podcasts

WT 360: All roads lead back to GSA in this ‘Editor’s Summit’ episode

Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec’s publications including us, joins Nick and Ross to unpack the General Services Administration’s newest moves to be the central agency for all things GovCon and some other major storylines.

Contracts

Pentagon heightens scrutiny on IT, management consulting contracts

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's newest directive for the department zeroes in on providers of “system IT integration, implementation, or advisory services."

Contracts

The acquisition rule (re)writers really want you to have your say

Industry will get visibility into and be able to weigh in on efforts by the GSA, Defense Department and NASA to reform the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Companies

How GRVTY centers its vision around the automated intelligence enterprise

The defense tech industry is being forced to be more creative than it has been in recent times. But as GRVTY's CEO Katie Selbe explains to us, this new company is just fine with that.

Contracts

DHS' $10B commodity IT contract remains on pause

The protests surrounding FirstSource III are one factor, but the bigger issue at-hand now is where this contract fits into the government's larger push to centralize civilian contracting.

Contracts

Sigma Defense wins $102M Navy shipboard engineering contract

The service branch set up this contract to aid in its rolling baseline approach for integrating commercially available products and systems into networks.

Contracts

NOAA keeps 3 incumbents for $250M coastal mapping contract

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses this program to aid in decisions regarding flood risks and transportation, among other uses.

Companies

Growth, tech and finance leadership moves across the market

A pair of veteran Defense Department technology leaders line up new roles in the industry, among other key hires to note.