Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson still sounds worried about sequestration. But she also shared with Wall Street some optimism based on the defense industry's long-cycled nature.
The Interior Department chooses three companies for a $235 million ceiling contract to help maintain and support an environment of Oracle-based financial and accounting systems.
The Navy posts the much-awaited final solicitation for the services portion of its multibillion dollar NGEN contract for global IT services and upgrade work.
Radiant Solutions has expanded a contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to continue development of machine learning and crowdsourcing tools
L3 Technologies and Harris Corp. believe they are better together to pursue the growing defense market but there are some significant civilian opportunities on the horizon as well.
Science Applications International Corp. was not chosen for the Marines' next-generation vehicle program but believes it can take those lessons into a similar Army competition.
The megadeal to combine L3 Technologies and Harris Corp. certainly puts its defense prime peers on notice. But government IT, systems integration and other services players also have to pay attention given mutual areas of interest.
The mega deals get all the attention and involve the biggest players in the market but small businesses have plenty to think about as the market is reshaped.
As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, contractors need to attract people who know IT but also have analytical and critical thinking skills.
BluVector is coy about a recent contract win but even without details the deal says plenty about where the government is in need of cybersecurity support.
Raytheon forges collaboration pacts with a pair of commercial cyber outfits to continue the defense company's approach of bringing those tools into government.
