Commercial cloud providers are jockeying for position in the federal market as agencies increasingly eye cloud migrations: a trend Leidos sees as suiting itself just fine.
Agencies have been slow to invest in and adopt artificial intelligence and other automation technologies, but that is rapidly changing and Booz Allen Hamilton sees it as a train that will not be stopped.
Palantir took round one earlier this year in the long-cycled program to support the Army's "DCGS" battlefield intelligence gathering system. Round two is now on the street with a big price tag.
Questions about scale are ever present for government services companies but now are starting to be asked of the largest defense primes in light of the Raytheon-UTC mega deal. Lockheed Martin: you're up first.
Octo Consulting acquires an open source development firm to align with changes they see in how defense agencies buy software as all markets appear to be shifting in that direction. Just look at IBM-Red Hat.
Raytheon initiated the conversations that eventually led to its megamerger with United Technologies' aerospace and defense businesses. Newly-released filings detail the initial response and eventual coming together.
The Navy's moves to put one unmanned vessel contract out for bid and make an award of a smaller pact for subsystem work gives a clearer glimpses into the future of unmanned vessels in the Navy.
