Tyto Athene adds Kapoor, Johnson to advisory board

Tyto Athene names federal market veteran Kay Kapoor and former GSA executive John Johnson to its advisory board.

ICF shifts its public sector lineup

ICF makes a trio appointments in its public sector leadership team that include one hire and two promotions from within.

Small biz wins $553M Army unmanned training contract

Pinnacle Solutions has won a seven-year, $553.2 million contract to help the Army conduct unmanned aircraft training.

Navy awards almost $1B SAP software supply contract

The Navy chooses four IT consulting firms for an almost $1 billion contract to provide and maintain SAP brand name software.

Cognosante hires Maximus, GDIT vet Gordon

Health IT contractor Cognosante hires former Maximus and General Dynamics IT executive James Gordon to the leadership team.

Curtiss-Wright buys data link software outfit

Curtiss-Wright acquires a provider of software to be used in tactical data links and other military communications functions.

Integrators are now scouts for new technology

Traditional systems integrators are adopting the practice of scouting technology now that most innovation is driven by the private sector, not government.

Alion taps former MacB chief Fuchs as COO

Alion Science and Technology names Sid Fuchs as chief operating officer seven months after the acquisition of MacAulay-Brown, which he led as CEO.

Schafer's private equity backers shift company across portfolio

Schafer Corp.'s private equity owners combined that government services contractor with another, similar business in the portfolio.

NewWave books $196M CMS modernization order

NewWave Telecom & Technologies takes a $196M IT and application modernization order with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Cubic makes deal for secure comm outfit Nuvotronics

Cubic Corp. buys Nuvotronics for $64 million in cash to further grow a portfolio of secure communications technology.

PE firm backs Sev1Tech

Private equity firm DFW Capital Partners acquires a controlling equity stake in Sev1Tech, a government and commercial IT services provider.

SAP NS2 partnership with Dassian expands ERP offerings

SAP National Security Solutions has formed a new partnership with Dassian Strategic Solutions to offer the latter’s enterprise resource planning products to customers in the U.S. government and highly-regulated industries.

Deloitte hires former Air Force surgeon general

Deloitte adds Air Force Surgeon General Mark Edinger to the leadership team in its government and public services practice.

CenturyLink fully cleared to proceed on EIS telecom vehicle

CenturyLink is the first carrier to get an authority-to-operate designation on GSA's massive EIS telecommunications contract. Now comes the part of winning the work and helping agencies make the move.

Army chooses QinetiQ NA to build small unmanned ground robot

The Army chooses QinetiQ North America to build a small unmanned ground robot for one of the branch's first "UGV" programs of record.

FLIR plans second headquarters in DC region

FLIR Systems will open a second corporate headquarters in the Washington, D.C., region so it can be closer to its federal customers.

Tyto Athene names IC vet exec advisory board chair

Tyto Athene -- the former Black Box federal arm -- names longtime intelligence community veteran Joanne Isham chair of its executive advisory board.

In-Q-Tel backs synthetic data platform outfit

Intelligence community investment arm In-Q-Tel partners with AI.Reverie to bring synthetic data platforms into government agencies.

Blackberry launches new federal arm

BlackBerry opens a new federal subsidiary headquartered in Washington, D.C. to guide the company's cloud computing products through the government market.