Companies

Bechtel promotes Volovar to lead government portfolio

The global construction giant's nuclear, security and environmental global business unit houses all of its U.S. and international public sector work.

Contracts

Anduril wins $642M Marines counter-drone tech contract

The service branch wants to cover the entire kill chain and use signature disruption as its means for countering adversaries' unmanned aircraft.

Companies

Growth and space leadership moves across the market

Our periodic summary of executive movement begins with one of the market's most notable private equity names adding to its braintrust.

Podcasts

WT 360: Federal sales cycles from more angles than just capture

Amber Hart and Lisa Shea Mundt, cofounders of The Pulse of GovCon, go over the keys for taking a “BD 360” approach in the market and their aptly-named new book.

Companies

NASA starts to build launch services support recompete

The space agency gives industry an initial, high-level glimpse at iteration number four of the Evolving Launch Vehicle Integrated Support contract called ELVIS.

Contracts

Army wraps up awards for $921M training tech support contract

Maximum reuse of existing product components and service life extension are the Army's priorities here.

Companies

Shield AI closes $240M investment round

The 10-year-old defense tech unicorn's lineup of backers now includes L3Harris Technologies.

Companies

Epirus collects $250M in Series D capital to scale up production

The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries' drones.

Companies

Riverside Research acquires secure hardware provider

Riverside is seeking to accelerate its development of new mobile devices and bring virtualization techniques further out to the edge.

Companies

General Atomics acquires signal processing tech provider

North Point Defense started in 2012 to develop automation-centric technologies for defense and intelligence operators.

Companies

Sabel Systems hires Purvis as chief executive

The former QinetiQ US CEO will lead Sabel through this new phase of its strategy as a Sagewind Capital-backed company.

Companies

Health, operations and talent leadership moves across the market

Three former GovCon CEOs also take up seats at boards of directors, including a founder who sold her company to one of the market's blue bloods.

Companies

ICF lays out the risks, opportunities from Trump's push for cuts

The company has quantified the risks from actions like stop-work orders and contract terminations, but is also looking at the tech business as where some opportunity exists.

Contracts

Library of Congress tries again at $450M agile development vehicle awards

The agency sticks with the original number of eight awardees, but the mix is different following a re-evaluation of bids.

Contracts

DHS awards 4 seats on $153M geospatial acquisition support pact

Homeland Security Department agencies and components use this blanket purchase agreement to acquire services such as data analysis and project management.

Contracts

ACI wins $276M Army mobile tech support contract

Work under the contract supports Nett Warrior, a mobile device designed to enable situational awareness and interoperability out in the field.

Contracts

Navy chooses 41 for $249M acquisition lifecycle contract

Awardees will be responsible for carrying out analytical, technical and managerial efforts that aid in sensitive activities.

Breaking News Companies

Trump administration asks agencies to cull consultants

A memo dated Wednesday asks agencies to review their contracts with 10 of the “highest paid” companies.

Companies

Nightwing appoints Coleman as chief executive

Bob Coleman takes the helm at Nightwing less than a year after its private equity owner acquired the business from RTX.

Contracts

General Dynamics IT wins $1B CMS cloud recompete

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services uses this task order as a mechanism for acquiring commercial cloud offerings.