Nimble contractors stand to gain in tight times
07/24/08 -- 09:25 AM With the changes in Congress and the presidency, and a tougher budget environment ahead, companies will have to be even more flexible and agile to maintain growth during the coming years.
Globalization arrives at a crossroads
07/14/08; Vol. 23, No. 12 A number of recent significant cross-border transactions, regulatory actions, and domestic and international political developments have put globalization of government and defense into the cross hairs of the 2008 presidential election.
Input: Quest for efficiency drives state, local spending
06/26/08 -- 10:26 AM A tight fiscal environment in state and local governments means contractors looking for work in those sectors need to focus on projects that will produce savings customers can redirect, according to a new study.
Savvy IT firms buck trend, gain share
06/16/08; Vol. 23, No. 10 The stocks of federal information technology and professional
services companies are performing in line with
the S&P 500 this year. Both are down about 6 percent,
while aerospace and defense companies’ stocks are having
another solid year and are up 7 percent.
FAA wants help with cultural transformation
06/03/08 -- 03:54 PM The FAA is conducting a market survey to determine the availability of contractors to assist with the cultural transformation of its Air Traffic Organization.
Input: Federal IT spending growth near historic low
06/03/08 -- 10:16 AM A number of factors are converging to create a federal IT spending environment described by the market research firm Input as tempered momentum.
Organic growth is making a comeback
05/26/08; Vol. 23, No. 09 The small-business recertification rule implemented
last year by the Small Business Administration is having
a profound effect on companies that depend heavily on
small-business set-aside contracts for growth and midtier
acquirers of such companies, forcing both to focus more on
organic growth.
Contracting as an economic engine
05/12/08; Vol. 23, No. 08 Just as in every campaign that has preceded it, the issue of
jobs has been at center stage throughout the 2008 presidential
campaign. Candidates talk about creating jobs, building
sustainable domestic industries and so forth. Ironically, one
topic that never comes up in those discussions is one of the
nation’s most significant sources of high-quality, well-compensated
employment: government contracting.
Prices hold firm for government M&A deals
05/12/08; Vol. 23, No. 08 Since 2004, the price-to-performance multiples of publicly
traded government technology services companies have
trended downward, while the valuations of mergers and
acquisitions have held their ground. Is this rational,
sustainable and likely to continue through this year and the next?
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