Companies

Tick tock: How Carlyle won the ManTech auction

A change of opinion by ManTech's founder regarding a sale led to a three-round process where legal matters were of equal importance to the financials.

Companies

Peraton makes acting civilian president's role permanent

The two-decade market veteran previously led the defense business before a realignment.

Companies

L3Harris invests in laser communications firm

The companies already work together to make airborne laser communications products.

Top 100

TOP 100: For Amentum, scale and capability go hand-in-hand

Company no. 12 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings has been busy with integration activities that were just about over when a familiar face joined as chief executive.

Contracts

The changing antitrust climate for contractors

Large transactions in the defense and government market do not typically get the attention of advocates for strong antitrust enforcement—but a few recent actions may signal a change.

Companies

Round 8: Air Force signs more companies up to JADC2 networking effort

The big picture idea is to create an open architecture for rapidly integrating new information and communications technologies.

Companies

Vectrus-Vertex merger closes

What is now "V2X" eyes growth in programs such as logistics, training and aerospace.

Contracts

GSA puts Polaris contract back in motion

A much-debated aspect of this government IT solutions procurement appears to have been changed.

Contracts

Jacobs captures $3.9B NASA recompete

The company first won this Johnson Space Center support contract to support human spaceflight in 2013.

Companies

Justice seeks to stop Booz Allen's Everwatch acquisition

The department's antitrust lawsuit says the transaction unfairly eliminates competition for providing signals intelligence modeling and simulation services to the National Security Agency.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How L3Harris wears its 'Trusted Disruptor' hat

Company no. 10 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings views that its embrace of that identity as requiring both internal and external components, L3Harris Technologies executive Sean Stackley says in this episode to our Ross Wilkers.

Companies

Red River hires new tech chief

The 25-year market veteran most recently worked in a similar role at VMware's public sector business.

Companies

Schneider Electric unveils new federal org

Electrification requirements, cybersecurity, data and industry partnerships are among several agenda items for the team.

Companies

Enlightenment Capital closes new $540M fund

Fund IV's final amount is double that of the last one the government market investment firm raised.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Lumen's '4th Industrial Revolution' push in the public sector

The "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is about both technological advancement and rapid societal change. It is also in Lumen Technologies' corporate mission and drives its federal strategy as explained to our Ross Wilkers by Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of public sector at company no. 31 on our 2022 Top 100.

Contracts

BAE wins $12B ballistic missile support recompete

The company has been the lead systems integrator for the nuclear triad's land portion since 2013.

Companies

Mercury Systems reaches pacts with activist shareholders

Two well-known government market executives will join the board as a result.

Contracts

Acquisition shops inside government need workers too

Government contractors talk up the talent fight all the time as their watch-item, but what of the teams that award the work?

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How the convergence of digital and physical drive Parsons' growth

Parsons Corp. was born an engineering company in 1944 and still is. But software is also a core component in both federal and infrastructure markets as our Ross Wilkers heard from Peter Torrellas, president of the company's connected communities business.

Top 100

TOP 100: Inside L3Harris' plan to disrupt the defense market

Company No. 10 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is implementing a strategy it says askews a 'business as usual' approach in favor of doing things differently.