With ATSC in the fold, Salient adds new business units

The expanded company adds two business units and a center of excellence.

Acentia adds health IT chops with 2020 acquisition

Deal brings customers at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

ATSC, Salient merger completion expected today

By the time the tender offer expired Thursday night, approximately 97 percent of ATSC outstanding shares had been turned in.

Can small business support governmentwide tablet procurement?

GSA issues an RFI to determine whether small businesses could supply tablet orders across government.

Sevatec aids State Department's information dissemination

Contracted services include program management, software application development, operations and maintenance.

How one small business embraced the cloud and won

Global Computer Enterprises reached for cloud computing more than six years ago and was one of the first to offer the service to government agencies.

Will federal IT budgets ever see growth periods again?

Panel of experts predicts rough 18 months ahead interspersed with a few calm moments.

Vistronix adds app development director to expand federal sales

Former GDIT executive also charged with finding new business markets and agencies.

Citizant taps operations manager to lead new civilian group

New VP Frank Nigro was instrumental in Citizant’s win of the Treasury Department’s TIPSS-4 ITS and TIPSS-4 small business contracts.

Women, mentor-proteges, NAICS codes get attention

House committee approved five contracting reforms to aid small businesses in areas such as interpreting the complex rules of federal acquisition.

Aveshka acquires Civitas' homeland security business

Acquisition gives Aveshka more offerings to counter physical and cyberspace threats.

14 to vie for $500M in Navy purchases

Navy will purchase commercial-off-the-shelf, network and communications equipment.

Panel: Small businesses to feel crunch as spending declines

A panel of lawmakers recommends increasing the 23 percent contracting goal because of the foreseen decline in government spending.

Data-crunching companies merge to strengthen offerings

Newly created Novetta’s key strengths include information exploitation, cybersecurity, cloud computing and solution engineering.

Md. small business gains $17.7M Navy contract modification

New award calls for continued engineering, fabrication, testing and installation services, among others.

LMI wins contract for tech, program management support for DOD

Company will support maintenance policy and programs.

QBE wins $50M BPA for Army enterprise IT, engineering services

Company will provide strategic enterprise architecture review, enterprise architecture planning services and IT solution implementation, among other services.

Advocacy Office launches research website

The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy launched a website to help companies with their business research.

CRGT wraps up purchase of Ciber Federal

The $40 million acquisition gives CRGT a wider range of IT services, including enterprise architecture, application development and security.

Women-owned biz bill slashes dollar limit on contracts

The Fairness in Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Act of 2012 was introduced this week by seven senators.