New cyber firm makes its first deal

Just under a year since its launch, Converged Security Solutions makes a deal of its own to acquire a cyber defense outfit.

ManTech eyes greater geospatial, automation capabilities in latest acquisition

ManTech International already is a significant provider of cyber and IT services to NGA. The company sees its latest acquisition of a business co-founded one of their former executives as adding the geospatial and analytics piece.

MorganFranklin acquired by talent services firm

MorganFranklin agrees to be acquired by a global talent services firm that sought a global consulting footprint in all markets including the public sector.

Leidos makes health care acquisition

Leidos makes its second tuck-in acquisition since the megadeal with Lockheed Martin's IT services unit and this time within the health group.

Convergent Solutions acquired by NYC-based firm

Convergent Solutions gets acquired by a New York City-based risk information services firm seeking more of a federal footprint.

General Dynamics finds buyer for satellite antenna unit

General Dynamics continues its portfolio reshaping effort by finding a buyer for the company's satellite antenna division.

Guidehouse sees mirror image of itself in $1.1B Navigant acquisition

Guidehouse just celebrated its first birthday and on the heels of that has found its first acquisition: Navigant Consulting for $1.1 billion.

Robbins-Gioia agrees to be acquired by PE firm

Robbins-Gioia agrees to be acquired by a private equity firm that focuses on mid-sized government contractors nearly two years after RG itself was the subject of a complex deal.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How Parsons plans to leverage its IPO

Chuck Harrington, Parsons' chairman and CEO, discusses the company's initial public offering and what the move means for them going forward.

E3/Sentinel makes data analytics play

E3/Sentinel has made another move to go further up the mid-tier with its acquisition of Data Works Inc. to add analytics, big data and software skills.

Perspecta makes first acquisition, to pay $250M for Knight Point

Perspecta makes its first acquisition as a publicly-traded company through a $250 million deal for managed IT services provider Knight Point Systems.

Integration, portfolio review high on L3 Harris' to-do list

The now one-month-old L3 Harris Technologies has integration at the top of its to-do list, along with deciding which businesses may have a better home somewhere else.

Podcasts

Nazzic Keene on the future of SAIC

On the cusp of taking the reins as CEO of SAIC, Nazzic Keene spoke with us about her new role and vision for the future of Science Applications International Corp.

Mercury to pay $100M for area display maker

Mercury Systems makes another acquisition as part of its story to become more of an end-to-end defense subsystem supplier.

Altamira swaps out ownership team

Altamira Technologies has been acquired by a private equity team led by ClearSky in an ownership change that leaves its leadership team in place.

Inside Octo's deal to go deeper into open source

Octo Consulting acquires an open source development firm to align with changes they see in how defense agencies buy software as all markets appear to be shifting in that direction. Just look at IBM-Red Hat.

Former Agilex, Accenture execs launch new venture: Steampunk

A group of former Agilex executives who went to Accenture when they bought the company have acquired and are now rebranding SE Solutions as Steampunk: which will focus on the "collision" of humans and technology.

SPA makes deal to grow research offerings

Systems Planning and Analysis acquires Veracity to add more research and decision support services for agencies.

With IPO behind them, Parsons revs up acquisition engine again

Parsons Corp. makes their first acquisition since the company returned to the public markets and this deal puts them in the defense hardware space.

Tick tock: How Raytheon-UTC megadeal came to be

Raytheon initiated the conversations that eventually led to its megamerger with United Technologies' aerospace and defense businesses. Newly-released filings detail the initial response and eventual coming together.