Booz Allen lands Digital Soldier opportunity with open concept

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a $561 million Army contract to build a Digital Soldier system built on an open architecture that supports technologies from other companies.

AECOM finds buyers for government services business

AECOM is opting to sell its government services business to a pair of private equity firms for $2.4 billion rather than spin that unit off into a new public company. One of those buyers is not new to the market, while the other one is.

Guidehouse closes Navigant acquisition

Guidehouse closes its acquisition of Navigant Consulting to gain critical mass in services supporting highly regulated industries.

Shareholders approve Raytheon-UTC combination

Raytheon and United Technologies shareholders vote to approve their merger, which is getting close scrutiny by antitrust regulators.

HP wins hardware portion of NGEN recompete

The Navy awards the first piece of its multi-billion dollar NGEN recompete to HP Federal as it appears to be sticking with what it has on the hardware front.

Unisys adds $152M DISA contract to federal growth story

Unisys' federal business continues to help spur the company's comeback with an almost $152 million Defense Information Systems Agency contract now part of that story.

Steampunk builds out civilian leadership team

Launched earlier this year, Steampunk makes a suite of appointments to its executive team including a leader of the company's civilian business.

Battelle sells its UAS tech to Dedrone

Battelle has sold its portfolio of hardware and software developed for unmanned aircraft to Dedrone, which will created a new defense unit.

DMI leverages AI portfolio to address Army's data management challenge

Digital Management Inc. is deploying its artificial intelligence and machine learning portfolio for the Army's personnel records system: a project that showcases the government's myriad data management challenges all at once.

With protest over, VA green lights work on $26B care network contract

A protest fight is in the rear view mirror for the Veterans Affairs Department, which has given one health provider the notice to go forward on a $26 billion piece of the VA's next-generation care network contract.

Guidehouse adds former NSA exec Bailey

Guidehouse makes a new addition to its leadership team in Marianne Bailey, a former National Security Agency executive.

ACT I hires former CACI exec

Acquisition and professional services outfit ACT I hires a former CACI International executive to oversee growth and business development functions.

Small firm picked for $82.8M USCIS info sharing infrastructure contract

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hires a small business to help modernize and roll out an IT infrastructure to enable sharing of information, under an $82.8 million contract.

Northrop hires DHS vet Phyllis Schneck

Northrop Grumman adds former Homeland Security Department cybersecurity lead Phyllis Schneck to the company's leadership team.

Brillient Corp. adds former GSA official Burrows

Brillient Corp. appoints General Services Administration official Ed Burrows to lead the company's pursuit of growth in automation-related work for agencies.

Leidos CEO shares insights on his commercial strategy

Government contractors have a poor track record of success in the commercial market but Leidos CEO Roger Krone sees an opening with health IT offerings as long as you recognize how different the markets are.

SAIC keeps role as NGA app store broker

SAIC has won the recompete of an incumbent contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to run the agency's app store for analysts.

CNSI appoints new finance chief

Health care tech outfit CNSI names almost two-decade market veteran David Adams as its next chief financial officer.

BAE's U.S. board adds former Army undersecretary

BAE Systems' U.S. board of directors elects former Army Undersecretary Patrick Murphy as a new member.

12 win spots on GSA's COMET contract

Twelve companies were tapped by GSA as primes on COMET contract for IT modernization.