Companies

Leidos' board adds former DISA director

Nancy Norton led the Defense Department's main IT agency for three years until her retirement in 2021.

Companies

Bain Capital closes $5.3B deal, takes over Guidehouse

The transaction value includes debt as the company gains a more global owner and senior executives stay in place.

Opinion

First CHIPS Act award signals start of U.S. semiconductor push

The Commerce Department chose a major defense hardware maker as recipient number one of CHIPS For America grant money, which certainly will go across multiple industries that are of importance to public sector.

Companies

Accenture's federal arm promotes new BD leader

Brian Hobbs joined Accenture Federal Services through its acquisition of Novetta in 2021.

Companies

SAIC unveils new business unit structure

Science Applications International Corp. will take on a different alignment in this iteration of the strategy, which its new CEO told investors is mostly about the organic growth engine.

Companies

Peraton hires former DXC CFO as new finance chief

The retiring John Kavanaugh has worked in the CFO role since Perspecta joined the fold of Peraton in 2021.

Companies

L3Harris to review its business after pact with major shareholder

The multinational hedge fund involved in this agreement will also be represented on the board of directors of L3Harris Technologies.

Contracts

FBI to rethink troubled IT services contract

After several rounds of protests and amendments, the FBI is reworking parts of the solicitation for a group of blanket purchase agreements.

Contracts

Army chooses 12 for $975M training services recompete

Communications, operations and logistics are other key lines of work for the new contract.

Companies

AI chip startup gets new backing from RTX's venture arm, other investors

EnCharge AI will use this newfound capital to grow out its team of employees and scale up product development.

Companies

SAIC's new CEO gives first glimpse at her short-term focus

In her first conversation with Wall Street, Toni Townes-Whitley points to the scale of Science Applications International Corp.'s portfolio and business development as where most of her initial attention is.

Companies

CGI forms joint venture with service-disabled small business

The new entity will offer systems integration, managed services and consulting work to defense and civilian agencies.

Contracts

Army releases draft for enterprise payroll system

The Army is collecting comments from industry on its plan for the recompete of a contract to help run the system that handles base pay, benefits, bonuses and re-enlistment functions.

Companies

L3Harris to sell commercial aviation business

L3Harris Technologies' 2023 acquisition activity centered on the purchases of Aerojet Rocketdyne and the former Viasat secure data product business.

Contracts

DHS previews timeline for SETA vehicle recompete

This will be the fourth iteration of a go-to contract for the Homeland Security Department to acquire industry support for its science and technology team.

Companies

New Jacobs, Amentum creation puts focus on large enterprise contracts

The as-yet-named entity from the merger of Amentum and two of Jacobs' government-facing business units will hit the market with plans to be a global systems integrator.

Contracts

Protests persist for FBI's long-delayed $5B IT contract

History looks to be repeating itself as the FBI keeps facing protests after each downselect phase and elimination of bidders.

Companies

Jacobs, Amentum unveil transaction to form a new public company

Jacobs agrees to merge two of its government-facing business units with Amentum to create this new government services provider.

Companies

Booz Allen protest dismissed after T4NG2 award

But the door remains open for the company to raise objections again regarding this $60 billion IT vehicle from the Veterans Affairs Department.

Companies

Maximus creates venture group to search for innovation

Company leaders tell investors the fund will make "small bets" on promising startups and pilot projects to test their technologies for usage in health and human services.