How firms use M&A to protect their base

The drivers behind a lot of M&A activity can just as often be about protecting the base as it is about striking out into new territories, experts at our recent WT Power Breakfast explained.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Former CSRA CEO: Amazon's CIA win changed the market and JEDI could too

Amazon's CIA cloud contract win five years ago “absolutely, fundamentally changed the marketplace" in former CSRA CEO Larry Prior's eyes. And DOD's big-ticket JEDI cloud is poised to be another catalyst.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAIC touts $255M space win but says little else

SAIC scores a $255 million contract for services to support space activities in the U.S. but won't say who it's with.

  • By Ross Wilkers

BAE building AI into new cyber tool

BAE Systems is developing a cybersecurity tool with AI capabilities as a cornerstone to more quickly thwart emerging threats.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Boeing furthers small sat push with acquisition

Boeing becomes the latest defense company to ramp up investments in the small satellite market through its acquisition of manufacturer Millennium Space Systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Boeing elevates exec to autonomous lead

Boeing named a new autonomous portfolio lead as the executive formerly in charge of that piece takes on a new role to lead the integration of Embraer’s engineering operations.

  • By Ross Wilkers

CACI's deal with GD adds more Navy work

CACI International bought a General Dynamics business unit to position the company for more Navy work as it expands the fleet to 355 ships.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How Perspecta plans to fend off rivals and keep big NGEN contract

Perspecta is two months old as a public company and is preparing for the fight to keep the massive Navy NGEN IT contract away from its rivals.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cornerstone Defense adds former ManTech exec Varner to board

Cornerstone Defense appoints industry veteran Bill Varner to its board of directors eight months after he retired from ManTech International.

  • By Ross Wilkers

BAE lines up more commercial partners for cloud push

BAE Systems' U.S. arm adds commercial IT outfits Splunk and Flexera to the defense company's partnership ranks on the heels of its Dell EMC pact.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DOD issues second award batch for $28B R&D vehicle

The Defense Department makes a second round of awards against a potential nine-year, $28 billion technology R&D contract vehicle.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DARPA selects 7 for $850M 'TASS' services contract

DARPA chooses seven companies for its $850 million "TASS" professional, scientific and technical services contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Small firm keeps $385M combatant command IT contract

A small business incumbent keeps its $385 million DISA contract to support a mission partner IT environment used by combatant commands.

  • By Ross Wilkers

IAP hires former STG CFO Cosgrove

IAP brings on former STG Chief Financial Officer Charles "Chuck" Cosgrove to the same role.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Deloitte names Prabhakar civilian practice head

Deloitte appoints two-decade consulting veteran Kavitha Prabhakar to lead the firm's civilian government practice.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How Alion's MacB deal fits into the notion of scale

The initial analyst verdict on Alion Science and Technology's deal for MacAulay-Brown says the goal of more scale is met. What else does it mean?

  • By Ross Wilkers

Small biz captures $435M DTRA IT contract

Small business TekSynap takes a $435 million contract for IT services to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency as the large business solicitation is pending.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy picks seven for info ops, oceanography contract

The Navy chooses seven firms for contracts to develop software for the branch’s information operations, meteorology and oceanography systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

LGS touts success in talent battle

Competition in the federal technology market for talent has never been hotter and here's how LGS Innovations is finding its way through that.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAIC keeps $861M Navy 'C4ISR' system contract

Science Applications International Corp. wins a recompeted $861.1 million Navy "C4ISR" system production and delivery contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Previous
Next