Our 2024 M&A roundup is now available
Our 2024 M&A roundup is now available
Merger and acquisition volume hit a three-year high in 2024 with 158 closed transactions.
Companies
Retired Leidos exec shares how the company instilled agility into its corporate culture
Gerry Fasano looks back at a 41-year career and why his favorite job was leading the integration of the Lockheed Martin IS&GS services business into Leidos, which essentially created a new company.
Companies
Defense tech, digital modernization drive GovCon M&A in 2024
Private equity firms led the charge with 85 out of 159 closed transactions as companies reposition themselves for emerging market opportunities.
Contracts
DARPA launches competition for $700M 'episodic mission IT' vehicle
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has no cap in the number of awards for this contract that covers application analysis and cybersecurity work, among other areas.
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Contracts
Your contract termination has been reversed. Now what?
Agencies can call, and are calling, contractors back to work after telling them their services are no longer required.
Contracts
GSA chooses 9 for $919M supply chain monitoring software pact
The General Services Administration designed this blanket purchase agreement for other agencies to acquire tools that can help them vet suppliers and monitor for other risks to supply chains.
Contracts
GSA, DOD preview on-ramp for $1.8B readiness support contract
Roughly a dozen primes are currently involved in this contract called PRISM and the Defense Department wants to know if more small businesses can join them.
Podcasts
WT 360: Supply chain health and wealth remains paramount
Leo Alvarez, a principal in Baker Tilly’s government contractor solutions practice, lays out how companies can make supply chain risk management a core aspect of their business and not just about legal compliance.
With RIFs imminent, the Small Business Administration reoffers its Deferred Resignation Program
SBA employees have until April 7 to decide again whether to take the “Fork in the Road.”
Contracts
Billions are on the line as DOGE, GSA increase scrutiny
A new analysis by TechnoMile looks at how exposed the General Services Administration's top 10 consulting firms could be, based on unexercised contract ceiling across three major spending categories.
Sponsor Content
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A new approach to workforce development can help to optimize government tech talent.
Companies
Nightwing acquires managed security services provider
This represents Nightwing's first purchase since its carveout from RTX and with new CEO Bob Coleman at the helm.
Contracts
Army nixes planned $10B agile software development contract
There will be no solicitation for the New Modern Software Development contract vehicle, and therefore no award.
Contracts
Lawmakers try again with software licensing bill
This marks the third Congress in which the bipartisan bill has been introduced.
Contracts
Leidos fights for another chance at $89B national biomedical lab contract
The company has supported the only federally-funded research and development center focused on medical research for 17 years, but a challenger has wrestled the contract away.
Companies
In-Q-Tel's newest investments eye data storage and deepfake defense
The intelligence community's venture capital arm identifies a pair of companies whose creations apparently are showing promise for agencies.
Contracts
Army pauses bundled recompete of professional services, IT vehicles
The so-called MAPS contract is yet another big-ticket Army tech acquisition to enter a holding pattern two months into the second Trump administration.
Contracts
Partnership for Public Service launches AI Center for Government
The good-government nonprofit said the center will focus on developing AI leaders, building talent and allowing agencies at all levels of government to share information and best practices.
Podcasts
WT 360: Thales North America steps into the spotlight as strategic opportunities emerge
Alan Pellegrini, CEO of Thales Group's North American subsidiary, discusses how he sees global priorities shifting and how the business is shaping its portfolio across space, defense and cybersecurity.
Contracts
DOD launches microelectronics research, development recompete
In keeping with past versions, the Defense Microelectronics Activity has structured the new contract to be broad in scope as it looks to bring in more modern computer chips for military systems.
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