Who are GovCon's best for 2018?

Four companies and three executives were picked as the best of the year at the annual Greater Washington Contractor Award gala Monday night, during which ManTech's George Pedersen was inducted into the GovCon Hall of Fame.

Peraton names Alan Stewart CFO

Peraton appoints four-decade federal market veteran Alan Stewart as chief financial officer.

PBGC awards TeraThink $100M IT services contract

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation awards a $100 million contract to TeraThink for IT services.

Analytic Services buys Domain X to grow defense, homeland security presence

Nonprofit institute Analytic Services Inc. acquires Domain X Technologies to increase footprints with the Defense and Homeland Security Departments.

How SAIC's 'Innovation Factory' & Red Hat pact explain the commercial IT push

How SAIC's new "Innovation Factory" to test and deploy technologies quickly with Red Hat as the initial partner feeds into the larger story of how federal systems integrators want to be a bridge to agencies for commercial tools.

Buchanan & Edwards hires Shintani as chief growth officer

Buchanan & Edwards hires nearly three-decade government IT market veteran Cal Shintani as chief growth officer.

Noblis hires General Dynamics vet Barnett as CTO

Noblis hires General Dynamics IT veteran Chris Barnett as chief technology officer.

CACI & industry peers unfazed by midterm election, near-term budget outlook

CACI International is the latest public government IT and services company to show lack of concern over the midterm election and what that could mean for budgets. Here is what they and their peers have said.

Parsons brings together federal, infrastructure units

Parsons Corp. consolidates federal and infrastructure business units into a single structure and names a chief operating officer.

Interior adds three to $235M financial system support contract

The Interior Department adds three more companies to a $235 million contract for maintenance and support of Oracle-based financial and accounting systems.

Accenture Federal hires Johns Hopkins APL vet Ian McCulloh

Accenture Federal Services hires Ian McCulloh, former chief scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Cobham U.S. division makes COO, CFO hires

A U.S. division of British defense contractor Cobham brings on board a pair of C-level executive hires to support growth and compliance.

VT Group taps former Mission Essential CEO for president

VT Group names former Mission Essential CEO Sunil Ramchand to the role of president and chief growth officer.

Are we approaching the end of the line for market consolidation?

M&A deal volume in government services is down this year but transaction values are up. Does that mean market consolidation is near a finish line?

ManTech cryptic on $158M Air Force space security win

ManTech International discloses a $158 million Air Force Space Command contract that is light on details, but continues to reveal how contractors are playing in the military space market.

Booz Allen sees 2019 contract activity 'spread out over the year'

In his quarterly call with Wall Street, Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski says to expect contract spending to be spread more evenly over the fiscal year versus a fourth quarter crunch.

Leidos results beg the question: Did the fourth quarter spending spree fizzle?

Leidos cut its sales outlook for this year partly because of lower-than-expected federal spending, which begs the question of whether the traditionally hyped "fourth quarter spending spree" fizzled out.

Microsoft goes to bat for military work

Microsoft has joined Amazon as commercial technology companies that have publicly touted their work with the federal government and the military in particular as a good thing to do.

In a hot M&A market, are there enough sellers?

Calendar year 2018 has been an active market for mergers and acquisitions, but are there are enough sellers to match all of the buyers?

Textron goes to ground with unmanned acquisition

Textron is acquiring an unmanned ground vehicle maker to try and take a share of anticipated growth in longer-term programs of record.