People drive success of M&A

Yes, there are cost and revenue synergies but a successful M&A deal often comes down to people and culture.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cubic the latest prime to part with defense services biz

Cubic Corp. is selling its defense services business as part of a portfolio reshaping to gain greater focus on core technology offerings.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Raytheon to build unmanned 'Barracuda' sea mine hunter

Raytheon takes a potential $362.7 million contract to develop an autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle for the Navy to use in the detection and mitigation of sea mines.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Dynetics takes next phase of DARPA's 'Gremlins' drone program

Dynetics has bested General Atomics to win phase three of DARPA's "Gremlins" program to build a drone that can take off and return to a C-130 in flight.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army adds more time to ITES-2S to mitigate delays to version 3

The $20 billion ITES-2S vehicle has been extended by another two years as the Army works through the delays caused by a series of pre-award protests.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Mercury the latest contractor to face activist investor

Mercury Systems is facing scrutiny from an activist investor that also put Kratos under the microscope earlier this year. What happens when companies face this pressure?

  • By Ross Wilkers

Hawkeye 360 adds Robert Work, John Mulholland to advisory board

Data analytics outfit HawkEye 360 adds former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and retired Army Lt. Gen. John Mulholland to the board of advisers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Delta Resources books $105M Navy warfare systems order

Delta Resources takes in a $105 million task order to help the Navy design, deploy and integrate warfare =systems onto vessels and other platforms.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Polaris Alpha continues buying run in Fourth Dimension deal

Polaris Alpha extends its profile as an active acquirer through its latest purchase of cyber and hardware services outfit Fourth Dimension Engineering.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DOJ moves on small business awards for $1.4B IT services contract

The Justice Department moves closer to final awards on the small business piece of a $1.4 billion follow-on IT support services contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force awards 5 small firms $950M agile cyber R&D contract

The Air Force picks five small businesses for a $950 million contract to carry out agile research-and-development work in cybersecurity.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How the SOSi-STG deal came to be

SEC filings provide a look at how SOS International came to make its $83 million deal for STG.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army awards $248M unmanned aircraft contract to 7 firms

The Army awards seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $248.5 million contract to supply unmanned aircraft systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

STG finds its white knight

SOS International acquires troubled STG Inc. for $83 million to add new cyber and other IT services with national security and diplomatic agencies.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Boeing pushes ahead with seabed to space strategy

With its various unmanned pieces in place, Boeing pushes forward with the strategy of connecting communications and data sharing across multiple platforms from the seabed to space.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Leidos wins $13M Air Force laser research program

Leidos wins a $13.9 million contract to research semiconductor laser technology for the Air Force.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Nonprofit org CTC adds Brothers, Shyu, Nichols to board

Nonprofit Concurrent Technologies Corp. adds a trio of government service veterans to its board of directors in Reggie Brothers, Heidi Shyu and Camille Nichols.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Siemens' federal arm adds Mike Jin as CIO

Siemens Corp.'s federal market subsidiary hires nearly two-decade government IT veteran Mike Jin as its chief information officer.

  • By Ross Wilkers

PlanetRisk books $12M Army visual info support system contract

PlanetRisk books a $12.5 million contract to help the Army run a global system for sharing information on incidents and threats near military facilities.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army extends LOGCAP IV contracts

The Army extends its massive LOGCAP IV logistics contract in order to allow for more time as it moves to the follow-on LOGCAP V contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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