Companies

Cherokee Federal stands up new investment arm

Sovereign Capital's first investment is its acquisition of majority ownership in a small business seen as having potential for faster growth.

Companies

Interior picks 10 for $500M IT services vehicle

The department's Bureau of Indian Affairs sought to hire a pool of companies to help with customer engagement, data and other functions.

Companies

Peraton hires Schorer as CEO

Steve Schorer will succeed Stu Shea, who led the company for seven years including back-to-back acquisitions that tripled the size of the firm.

Contracts

FDA chooses 5 for $500M data analytics pact

These awards take place two years after the Food and Drug Administration unveiled a modernization plan focused on centering everything it does around data.

Companies

Public safety, consulting and tech leadership moves across the market

One of these appointments involves a former chief of staff for the Office of Federal Chief Information Officer, who moved to the private sector two years ago.

Companies

Omni Federal eyes more big swings with new private equity owner

Madison Dearborn Partners is also bringing its network to this partnership as Omni starts this new phase of the journey.

Companies

Electra, Firefly hire new CEOs

Electra is venture-backed four years since its founding, while Firefly has been private equity-owned for one year.

Companies

Conduent hires Sever to lead government segment

Anna Sever will lead Conduent's push to further incorporate emerging technologies into its overall solutions for healthcare, eligibility and enrollment programs.

Companies

Parry Labs captures $80M in its first investment round

Parry Labs started in 2016 and now has added backing to ramp up its technology investments, both in software and small-form hardware.

Contracts

DARPA designates 5 firms as 'Commercial Accelerators'

The Defense Department's lead research-and-development agency tasks this group of primes to work with qualified companies developing early stage technologies of promise.

Contracts

IRS chooses 6 for $300M consulting pact

This blanket purchase agreement points to the management and operational aspects of the IRS' larger modernization push.

Companies

Synergy hires ICF vet as chief executive

J.C. Chidiac most recently led ICF's line of business focused on digital modernization.

Companies

B&A moves to new private equity owner

DFW Capital Partners adds a second government technology and services company to its portfolio in the market.

Companies

Bluestone backs missile defense and space tech company

The private investment firm is undertaking this move via a license it received to back promising small businesses whose technologies align with the Defense Department's priorities.

Podcasts

WT 360: Defense One's Sam Skove on the drone industry's vital signs

Sam Skove, our Defense One colleague who covers the Army, jumps in to go over the branch's push for more small drones and where the industrial base that makes them is at right now.

Companies

Autonomous tech, finance and growth leadership moves across the market

Plus a key supplier of software products to federal technology integrators and resellers promotes a new leader of that very function.

Contracts

Army unveils second solicitation for $4B in R&D recompetes

This is for the unrestricted portion of the so-called D3I2 vehicle that focuses on research work in space, high-altitude and missile defense.

Companies

Amentum's blueprint as a public company

Members of Amentum's senior executive team visited Wall Street to tell the investor community all about their company's next steps and here's what they said.

Companies

Dcode's venture arm invests in cyber company

Nucleus Security opened for business in 2019, participated in Dcode Capital's advisory program two years later and is now a portfolio company of the latter.

Companies

DOD finalizes $848.8M Red Hat software supply pact

This blanket purchase agreement is part of the Defense Department's main initiative for making consolidated buys of commercial IT products and services.