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Maximus to acquire Agile Defense for $660M

Maximus has traditionally focused on civilian work but has sought to ramp up its defense portfolio over the past two years.

Defense tech M&A runs hot as government services firms work past the DOGE effect

Investment bank DC Advisory sees buyers paying top dollar for differentiated defense capabilities, but the numbers in its newest report show second-quarter deal volume falling sharply.

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FDIC surveys landscape for IT consolidation approaches

Artificial intelligence and conventional automation techniques are a keen area of interest for the government body chartered to protect U.S. citizens' savings accounts.

Tech bills of the week: Cutting federal funding for Flock; Making data centers shoulder their power costs; and more

Lawmakers are continuing to take bipartisan aim at the use of artificial intelligence-powered surveillance systems and at data center development and operations.

Defense, growth and operations leadership moves across the market

Peraton, SAIC and Ursa Major are among companies adding executives in business development, capture and operations roles.

US moves to staff leaders for industry-partnered offensive cyber program

The Trump administration is laying groundwork to enlist companies against foreign cybercriminals, but payment arrangements and protections for participating firms remain unresolved.

SAIC hires former Northrop CFO as finance chief

Prabu Natarajan will first hand over the chief financial officer position on Dec. 7, then focus on leading both Science Applications International Corp.'s civilian group and a company-wide transformation project.

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Top Pentagon zero trust official to retire from government this week

Randy Resnick has spent nearly 40 years in federal service and is now headed to the private sector as a CTO at IGEL.

Training tech, IT and space capital market transactions to note

Fidelity Technology Services gets private equity backing, GCubed Enterprises buys a company and Kapta Space closes a financing round.

Evercore hires veteran duo to lead defense, aerospace practice

John Song and Jean Stack join the investment bank as senior managing directors after leaving Baird, a competing bank.

GovExec announces leadership change

Tim Hartman will transition into a senior advisory role with the company.

Cyber, tech and operations leadership moves across the market

One major market player featured in this listing adds a trio of vice presidents to its ranks.

White House unveils billions in investments for Genesis Mission

Eleven leading tech firms pledged to provide $2.4 billion in compute credits to help drive scientific research and technological innovation through the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging capabilities.

HawkEye 360 hires Lockheed vet to lead US government biz

John Monahan joins the commercial satellite operator a handful of months after its initial public offering.

Autonomy, space and logistics startups detail their newest capital raises

The venture investment arms of Booz Allen Hamilton and RTX Corp. are among those involved in the action here.

Chickasaw Nation's contracting arm buys network engineering provider

CNI Federal Services business adds a technology services portfolio that includes an alternative method for speeding up connections and delivering data.

White House targets tech giants with H-1B visa suspension

Vice President J.D. Vance calls Microsoft the "biggest abuser" as the administration freezes new and pending H-1B and PERM applications for eight companies.