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Lockheed, Ondas move on tech-focused acquisitions

Maritime systems, including sonar, and autonomous vehicles are the key areas of interest for both buyers.

Growth, finance and tech leadership moves across the market

Plus, one global financial giant appoints a new leader for its commercial banking team focused on this industry, among other key hires and promotions.

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AWS launches Secret Cloud for industry’s classified workloads

The company made several announcements geared towards its government customers, including up to $1 billion in cloud credits for U.S. intelligence agencies.

Parsons subsidiary awarded $245M Navy ground station contract

Space Ground System Solutions will provide software development and other IT-related services at this Naval Research Laboratory location.

42 companies from the 2016 Top 100 are gone. What happened to them?

A decade of mergers, divestitures and shifting priorities has reshaped the federal market. The next 10 years may be just as turbulent.

Growth, legal and operations leadership moves across the market

A pair of key hires in government relations teams and four board of directors additions also feature.

KBR hires CEO, finance chief to lead government spinoff

KBR is positioning "SpinCo," the placeholder name for this future company, to enter the market on $5 billion in annual revenue with 20,000 employees.

CGI set to promote new federal leader

Alisa Bearfield will become president of CGI Federal on Oct. 1 as Stephanie Mango is moving to a global role with the parent company.

CACI hires former Lockheed space exec Young as COO

Space has featured prominently in CACI's strategy over recent years.

Battelle challenges KBR’s $8B Antarctica contract win

The protester claims the National Science Foundation did not account for the potential impacts of KBR’s planned spinoff of its government business.

Booz Allen to acquire Ultra defense tech unit for $720M

Booz Allen is pushing to ramp up its tech product integration efforts and increase the number of commercially-available offerings.

Nearly 7 out of 10 Top 100 firms have no Black execs in the C-suite

Our annual analysis finds minority representation slipping and the diversity, equity and inclusion rollback may be just beginning to show up in the data.

DISA starts to craft $850M Army-focused cyber recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to hear from companies with experience in large-scale cyber initiatives and Zero Trust architectures.

DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS

The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.

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.

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.

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.