IBM to spin off managed infrastructure business
IBM plans to split into two companies by the end of 2021. Big Blue will remain focused on hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence solutions, while the spinoff will take the managed infrastructure work.
Xenith adds IT services portfolio through acquisition
Xenith makes an acquisition to gain more IT service offerings for federal agencies and combine that with what the company already does in business process consulting.
ECS' latest acquisition seeks greater geospatial presence
The parent company of ECS closes an acquisition to give that business more of a foothold in geospatial intelligence programs.
DLH's newest acquisition increases presence with defense agencies
Sixteen months after one acquisition, health IT company DLH's latest deal adds more research and systems development work for Defense Department agencies.
Tetra Tech continues acquisition thrust in federal tech
Tetra Tech makes another acquisition in its continued push to add more technology and analytics work as a complement and perhaps even core to the engineering and construction business.
How the Amentum-DynCorp deal came to be in a COVID world
A dialogue had been long established, but the final leg of talks for Amentum to acquire DynCorp International almost exclusively happened through remote due diligence. The CEO of Amentum sees that shift as mirroring what is happening across the government market.
DC Capital backs special operations tech firm
Private equity firm DC Capital Partners takes a partial stake in a provider of hardware and software products to the special operations community.
Podcasts
PROJECT 38: Why Leidos isn't standing still
Leidos is the largest company in the market coming in at No 1. on the 2020 Top 100, but isn't sitting back as business development chief Roy Stevens explains in this podcast with Washington Technology editor-in-chief Nick Wakeman.
Amentum hits gas pedal with DynCorp acquisition
Not even a year after its creation, Amentum did not wait long to be a buyer and has announced a deal to acquire DynCorp in a deal that brings new customers and broader capabilities as Amentum's CEO explains.
Veritas reportedly partnered with activist investor to pursue Cubic
Veritas Capital is a well known in the government market and is reportedly working with an activist investor to buy Cubic Corp. But while Elliott Management may be an unknown to the sector, they hardly are to Veritas and the overall universe of publicly-traded companies.
Curtiss-Wright eyes greater military comms tech presence
Industrial component maker Curtiss-Wright is continuing its push into more government business, this time through a $400 million deal to buy military communications technology firm PacStar.
QuantiTech makes its first deal with private equity help
QuantiTech closes its first acquisition since the government services company received backing from a private equity firm earlier in the year.
Activist investor pushing to buy Cubic
Cubic Corp. has become another government contractor to draw the attention of an activist investor, which is making clear its intentions to acquire the defense and transportation company.
Lockheed's venture org backs airspace monitoring firm
Lockheed Martin's venture capital organization invests in a company focused on monitoring low-altitude airspace traffic as drone delivery and other new use cases are emerging.
T-Rex adds intell community presence through acquisition
T-Rex Solutions' acquisition of a nearly two-decade old company adds footprints in the intelligence community.
Noblis makes deal for cloud, analytics firm
Noblis has acquired Inductive Minds, a Sterling, Va., company that provides cloud and analytics services to federal agencies. Terms were not disclosed.
With new owners and a new CEO, NuWave eyes work in agencies' decision cycles
With a new owner and a new chief executive in place, NuWave Solutions is looking to expand its role in the decision cycles federal agencies go through when they look at data and determine what to do next.
Former Polaris Alpha CEO takes the helm at a new firm focused on space
Polaris Alpha's former CEO is now the chief executive of a new space technology player in Redwire that can trace its history back almost six decades through a legacy company. He tells us how Redwire plans to stand out in a crowded market landscape.
5G outfit ComSovereign to purchase radio maker
ComSovereign Holding Corp., the 5G technology consortium founded last year, has agreed to acquire a maker of radios and other equipment for use in places where connections are hard to come by.
Satellite antenna maker's acquisition bets on government growth
Satellite antenna manufacturer Kymeta closes an acquisition to both add a services piece to its business and position for government market growth.
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