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The 2026 Top 100 shows a market that bent, but did not break

Prime contract value dipped just 1.2% despite DOGE cuts and government layoffs, but the defense-civilian divided is widening.

  • By Nick Wakeman

How DHA plans to end Leidos’ run as the military's health record integrator

The Defense Health Agency intends to contract directly with Oracle Health and four other vendors behind the MHS Genesis ecosystem. DHA is also taking on the integration work itself.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Operations, tech and growth leadership moves across the market

A former FBI chief information officer and retired National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director feature in this listing.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract

The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management.

  • By Ross Wilkers

KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete

The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Introducing the 2026 Washington Technology Top 100

Our annual rankings recognize the largest prime contractors in the federal market.

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CACI's Gray to retire

DeEtte Gray first joined CACI in 2017 as president of U.S. operations and currently leads a group of 20,000 employees.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DHA plans shift in approach for electronic health record follow-on

The Defense Health Agency has outlined its paths for both a cloud migration effort and working with more than one company for the EHR ecosystem.

  • By Ross Wilkers

A handful of CEO-level transitions and more leadership moves across the market

Key promotions and hires focused on investment activity, technology development, operations and finance also feature in this listing.

  • By Ross Wilkers

KBR wins $8B Antarctica research recompete

KBR's government services unit beats out three other bids as it prepares to go it alone as an independent public company.

  • By Ross Wilkers

CMS chooses finalists for Medicare claims processing competition

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will eventually choose one integrator after seeing how their prototypes function in a set of challenges.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SpaceX awarded $4.1B tracking satellite contract

SpaceX has a 2028 deadline for delivering the constellation as an early operational capability.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy chooses 16 for $350M 'Seabed to Space' systems contract

Awardees will perform technical work across the entire lifecycles of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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SpaceX awarded $2.3B contract for satellite network backbone

The company is tasked with delivering a prototype by the end of 2027.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Booz Allen puts more emphasis on products in its new fiscal year

In talking with Wall Street, CEO Horacio Rozanski describes how this leg of the firm's strategy aims to align with the administration's desire for more fixed-price and outcome-based contracts.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Deloitte awarded $249M Army contract as lone bidder

The firm will support the service branch’s 15-year, $18 billion effort to modernize depots, arsenals and ammunition plants.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SpaceX’s governance structure is built for one person: Elon Musk

ANALYSIS: The S-1 filing reveals a company where accountability flows up, not down.

  • By Nick Wakeman

OPINION: Data centers in space may sound wild, but SpaceX and others believe otherwise

SpaceX's filing to become a public company highlights the barriers and potential of this concept, which brings the often-used "dual use" terminology into a different lens.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SpaceX's S-1 lays out its government work and market ambitions

How much of the revenue for Elon Musk's company comes from the U.S. government? We have an answer to that question, among other details SpaceX now has to disclose.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAIC loses protest fight over $1.4B Army contract it once held

GAO denies challenge to CASTLE-NET award, leaving Accenture Federal Services in place to modernize the Corps of Engineers' IT, cybersecurity and information management services.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Amentum promotes industry veteran to build enterprise-wide AI operating model

Amentum's new chief artificial intelligence architect describes how the company is pushing to scale grassroots innovation into mission-ready capabilities.

  • By Nick Wakeman