General Dynamics eyes greater share of the cloud pie

General Dynamics is already the lead for one significant cloud migration effort in government and wants to be at the nexus of other moves.

Cubic stockholders vote 'yes' on sale to Veritas & activist investor

A majority of Cubic's stockholders vote to approve the company's sale to Veritas Capital and an activist hedge fund partner.

Raytheon offers upbeat forecast

One year ago, Raytheon Technologies unveiled itself to the market just as the coronavirus pandemic was in its early stages, and the company's outlook today is very different than it was then.

Inside the Octo-Sevatec integration

Octo is roughly three months past the acquisition of Sevatec that created a larger middle-tier technology modernization provider and the timing happens to coincide with more funding attention on that very subject.

SAIC's latest tuck-in acquisition eyes AI skills

SAIC has acquired a small Seattle firm that solves a difficult problem in artificial intelligence -- how to organize structured and unstructured data from multiple sources based on user attributes and permissions.

Spire Global lines up new investor ahead of public listing

As Spire Global prepares to go public, the space-based data company gets some added financial backing to further accelerate product development ahead of the listing.

Unison's latest acquisition eyes added software functions

Contract and program management software provider Unison makes an acquisition to add another angle to its overall offering for industry and government.

How CACI sees slower, but eventual return to whatever normal looks like

CACI International is not alone in having to deal with the realities of working for agencies in a world of COVID-19 and that is why it is tempering some expectations with the reality of an uneven return to 'normal.'

What drove Maximus toward its largest-ever acquisition

Maximus is paying a company-record $1.4 billion to acquire Veterans Evaluation Services and continue transforming the business process outsourcing line of work.

Tyler Technologies closes NIC acquisition

Tyler Technologies completes the company's largest-ever acquisition that sees NIC enter its fold.

Lockheed's blueprint for change in the system and itself

Lockheed Martin's knowledge of how defense acquisition works is self-evident but its chief executive believes many of those processes need to be modified for customers to get the technologies they want when they want them. So too should Lockheed change, he told Wall Street.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How small businesses can be M&A players too

John Allen of Bluestone Investment Partners tells WT Editor Nick Wakeman how small businesses can find a way to become players in today's hyperactive merger-and-acquisition landscape.

ComSovereign's newest deal eyes signal processing tech

ComSovereign's latest acquisition to further build its wireless technology holdings amid the 5G revolution leads the company to a business focused on signal processing.

Raytheon details CFO transition

Raytheon Technologies appoints a new chief financial officer around the one-year anniversary of the megamerger to create the company as the market now knows it.

Family PE firm acquires another GovCon company

McNally Capital has acquired Orbis Operations in another deal that to build the private equity investor's federal market portfolio.

Cubic bidding war highlights the value of certainty over price

The sale of Cubic Corp. turned into a bidding war but the story of how Veritas Capital and its hedge fund partner finally won out highlights how certainty over the closing can outweigh a higher price.

Ensco makes deal for aerospace, national security expansion

Ensco makes an acquisition to bolster its aerospace and national security market footprint, plus add a new proprietary cloud-based tool in use among many customers.

Elbit Systems' U.S. arm completes $380M Sparton buy

Elbit Systems' U.S. business completes the $380 million acquisition of Sparton Corp., which will operate in a different structure within its new home.

General Atomics acquires data, software services company

General Atomics acquires a data analytics and software engineering services company that counts the United Nations as among its customers.

Tyto Athene closes acquisition, unveils expanded leadership team

Tyto Athene completes its acquisition of the now-former AT&T defense IT professional services business and added new leadership team members as a result of that deal.