Leidos makes product play in $1.65B Dynetics deal

Leidos has increasingly talked about wanting to make an acquisition that included a product play and it appears to have made one in its $1.65 billion deal for Dynetics.

Coalfire to change ownership hands

Cyber advisory firm Coalfire will go from being held by a pair of private investment groups to a single owner, also a private equity firm.

Centuari closes two deals as it grows its platform

Centuari is moving quickly to make good on its acquisition strategy as it closes two deals to build its capabilities around space, intelligence and cybersecurity.

SAIC focuses on revenue growth as Engility integration nears finish line

Science Applications International Corp. has largely completed the integration of Engility almost one year on. Now the focus is on organic revenue growth.

E3/Sentinel closes another digital-focused acquisition

E/3 Sentinel continues its strategy to move up the middle market's food chain with another acquisition focused on digital and analytics-related services for government agencies.

Sellers' expectations high in hot M&A market and public companies don't like it

The government market's merger-and-acquisition landscape continues to run hot and so are what sellers hope to fetch. Public companies are pointing to those high expectations as a reason for not going forward with deals.

Tech Data opens up on DLT deal

Tech Data will leave the public markets in the first half of next year but will have to report its financial results until then, including the price it paid for DLT Solutions.

Drone Aviation joins group pushing new 5G capabilities

Drone Aviation, formerly led by the late Jay Nussbaum, is merging into a consortium of companies building capabilities around the emerging 5G market.

Cyber traffic defense firm gets In-Q-Tel backing

A malicious traffic defense outfit completes its first venture capital funding round that also included In-Q-Tel, the U.S. intelligence community's investment arm that now has an international hub.

Warren Buffett's bid for Tech Data partly explains the GovCon market he almost (sort of) entered

Warren Buffett largely went against his own investment approach in a bid to acquire Tech Data, now the new owners of DLT Solutions. That attempt also mirrors what is going on in the GovCon market that DLT plays in.

Inside the courtship of PAE to take it public

New regulatory filings involving the transaction that will make PAE a public company give us a glimpse at how a major deal goes from initial talks to final agreement.

Cubic to acquire rest of software firm Pixia

Three months after the initial investment, Cubic Corp. decides it will acquire the remainder of commercial software company Pixia.

Arlington Capital finds buyer for geospatial data tech firm

Arlington Capital Partners finds a buyer for one of its portfolio companies whose main federal clients for geospatial data products include the U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA.

Podcasts

Reporter's Notebook: JEDI award fallout, how integrators are reacting and more

In the latest episode of the Project 38 podcast, Editor Nick Wakeman and Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers discuss the fallout of the JEDI cloud contract award, mergers and acquisitions and other top of mind issues in the federal market.

Tech Data to be acquired in wake of DLT deal

Tech Data signs a deal to be acquired itself on the heels of announcing a return to the federal market with the planned acquisition of DLT Solutions,

Serco builds on Alion Navy acquisition

Serco Inc. has won a second contract to support Navy design work following its August acquisition of the former Alion Science & Technology naval design business.

Intell community IT firm gets new investor backing

Intrepid Solutions and Services, a IT services provider for intelligence agencies, gets new financial backing from one veteran mid-tier investment group and another focused exclusively on small businesses.

LinQuest makes first deal under new owners

LinQuest Corp. was itself acquired last year by two private equity firms and has now used that backing to make an acquisition of its own.

LMI buys analytics software provider

LMI acquires a predictive analytics software company based out of a growing tech hub the nonprofit consultancy aims to have a bigger presence in.

Podcasts

PODCAST: What's behind Dovel's leadership transition

Executives from Dovel Technologies share why they are going through a leadership transition and what it says about their growth strategy.