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PROJECT 38: What's driving today's hot M&A market?

The market has rarely seen the level of merger and acquisition activity that we see today with a plethora of large and small buyers. To breakdown what’s driving the deals, Editor Nick Wakeman spoke with Bob Kipps of the investment bank KippsDeSanto.

Castellum's latest acquisition takes company further to new stock listing

Defense technology company Castellum is rapidly closing acquisitions including its latest deal focused on cyber and network engineering as the firm pushes to have its stock traded on an exchange.

How CACI thinks through the tech & talent legs of its strategy

Technology and talent are key components of CACI International's overall strategy but not as directly correlated compared to in years past amid renewed discussion about recruiting in the government market. In speaking with investors, CACI's chief executive explained why and how their thinking about that correlation has changed.

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More code than papers: inside Noblis' turn into that direction

Noblis is shifting to a new method and model of delivery amid the nonprofit organization’s continued push to be at the nexus of science and technology for federal agencies. Get the inside view on that multiple-year reinvention as described to our Ross Wilkers by CEO Amr ElSawy and Mile Corrigan, senior vice president of federal civilian solutions.

Another ECS Federal acquisition builds its health care offerings

ASGN and its government technology business ECS have made their third acquisition in less than a year, adding more health care capabilities and customers.

Leonardo DRS acquires gimbal tech maker

Leonardo DRS acquires a maker of gimbal technology to better enable the movement of sensors and cameras installed on platforms.

PAE sees growth through acquisitions as it navigates the drawdown in Afghanistan

PAE saw strong growth in the last quarter thanks to strategic acquisitions but now it must navigate the impact of the troop drawdowns in Afghanistan.

COVID, acquisitions fuel Maximus' revenue growth

Maximus has seen significant revenue growth in its latest quarter fueled by support of the government's COVID-19 response and what has come from recent acquisitions.

The talent race will never end, but here's how contractors are talking about it

How these four publicly-traded government technology and professional services companies talk about talent helps explain how the entire market is seeing the same trends.

L3Harris declares its post-merger divestiture push as nearly done

L3Harris Technologies sounds just about done with its post-merger divestitures, which should translate to greater focus on the integration and revenue synergy efforts.

Leidos preps for some renewed COVID restrictions amid strong results

Leidos' chief executive tells investors some COVID restrictions are coming here and abroad, but he doesn't expect a return to the same conditions of earlier this year.

How Huntington Ingalls spreads its people & resources across the company

Huntington Ingalls Industries is getting closer to completing its acquisition of Alion Science and Technology, which also should give the buyer's two main shipyards some resources and people to pull from as company executives explained during a media briefing.

IntelliBridge closes second acquisition of 2021

IntelliBridge has closed its second acquisition of 2021 as it builds more capabilities around DevSecOps, data science and analytics.

Telos acquisition adds capabilities to its biometric systems

Telos Corp. has made its first acquisition since going public last year by adding the assets of Diamond Fortress Technologies, whose catalog of intellectual property focuses on contactless biometric readings.

How Booz Allen's 'Future of Work' vision shapes hiring for today & tomorrow

Booz Allen Hamilton is rolling out the firm's post-pandemic future of work and goes into that knowing there is still much to learn -- even if much has been learned in the current environment.

Shield AI makes second acquisition for unmanned aerial portfolio

Its second acquisition in a week, Shield AI intends to buy Martin UAV and continue developing a portfolio centered on technologies that deliver unmanned systems capabilities.

What Northrop makes of Bezos' offer to subsidize NASA moon lander

Northrop Grumman is on the lunar lander pursuit team led by Blue Origin, whose founder Jeff Bezos has offered to essentially pick up the check for NASA in building that vehicle to go to the moon. But the way Northrop invests in space reveals a different philosophy.

General Dynamics' chip supply issue is far from its alone

Everything in the world runs on computer chips and there are simply not enough to go around, as General Dynamics is finding out with respect to its IT product business.

The one hiccup in Raytheon's hefty defense business

Returns of air traffic to pre-COVID levels has been a boost for Raytheon Technologies as its defense business is also a point of optimism with one exception.

LMI acquires Suntiva to further public health & defense push

LMI closes an acquisition to further entrench its presence in public health and also add more of a footprint with certain defense agencies.