How the defense giants are gauging COVID-19 impacts

Defense companies are making moves in an effort to protect their supply chains as COVID-19 continues to create some dysfunction in the market with the potential for more. Some have altered their expectations for the year too.

CGI secures final CDM DEFEND cyber order

CGI Group lands the sixth and final task order for cyber integration and consulting services to federal agencies through the governmentwide CDM DEFEND program.

ASRC Federal appoints new CEO

ASRC Federal promotes now-former Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Felix to the CEO post.

Accenture takes Commerce, VA IT modernization jobs

Accenture's federal arm wins $430 million in IT modernization contracts with the Commerce and Veterans Affairs departments, though one could still face a protest challenge.

E3/Sentinel stands up board of advisers

E/3 Sentinel stands up a new board of advisers to help steer its strategy of further climbing the middle tier.

Booz Allen to extend CMS marketplace integration work

Booz Allen Hamilton will continue its role as lead systems integrator for the marketplace that individuals and businesses use to buy private health insurance.

AI firm clinches $258M Air Force push alert contract

Venture-backed artificial intelligence outfit Dataminr takes a $258 million contract to develop a push alert system for the Air Force.

DOD previews $1.5B professional services recompete

The Defense Department gives an early glimpse at the $1.5 billion recompete of a professional services contract used by its top acquisition official.

Coalfire completes sale to new private equity owner

Coalfire goes from being owned by multiple private equity investors to now having a single PE backer as the cyber advisory firm looks for growth in the Defense Department's CMMC cybersecurity standards.

What small businesses are saying about COVID-19 impacts

Small business contractors are reporting cash flow and other financial issues in a new survey to explore the impacts of COVID-19 amid steps by their largest customer and industry partners to try and mitigate negative effects.

Leidos clears protest hurdle to secure $4B Energy recompete

Leidos can now officially celebrate clearing the second of two largest recompete hurdles: a $4 billion Energy Department contract to restore a former nuclear production site.

How Lockheed sees COVID-19 affecting its partners

Lockheed Martin had a plan to help its supply chain partners get through the COVID-19 pandemic and now is describing what the crisis is doing to some of those companies.

Raytheon Technologies finds buyer for final required sale

With the merger behind it, Raytheon Technologies can now check off the final divestiture the company had to make from its to-do list.

Parsons' board adds former NGA director

Parsons Corp.'s board of directors elects a new member that once led the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

JEDI corrective action now a waiting game

DOD's corrective action means Amazon Web Services at least gets a second chance at the JEDI contract won by Microsoft even if the company cannot make all the arguments it wants yet. But AWS has to wait and see how the corrective action pans out before pressing forward.

Siemens' federal arm hires new CIO

Siemens Corp.’s federal shop appoints a new chief information officer to oversee the subsidiary's enterprise technology strategy.

Array adds Perot Systems vet as CFO

Array Information Technology hires a nearly two-decade veteran of the former Perot Systems as chief financial officer.

Judge signs off on DOD's partial JEDI re-examination

The federal judge overseeing the JEDI lawsuit says the Defense Department can go ahead with plans to re-evaluate some parts of that big-ticket commercial cloud contract.

White House outlines how agencies can help contractors during pandemic

The White House budget office attempts to give further clarity on what agencies can do to support contractors, including the reimbursement of paid leave in the event workers cannot report.

BAE's US arm hires new procurement, supply chain head

BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary adds a new chief procurement officer to its leadership team that will also oversee the global supply chain strategy.