Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) pending $250 million purchase of Laurel, Maryland-based cloud computing and digital services contractor Aquilent represents a selective entry into the GovCon acquisition landscape for a firm as it has made five purchases. McLean, Virginia-based Booz Allen largely sat out of last year’s ...
ŽSarasota, Fla.-based industrial and technology conglomerate Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) has agreed to purchase software and information product provider Deltek for $2.8 billion from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Roper said Tuesday it expects to complete the transaction before the year’s end and will fund the deal through its existi...
The State Department has approved Finland™s request to buy F/A-18 aircraft equipment and related services from the U.S. government under a potential $156 million foreign military sales agreement. Finland asked to procure 90 Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems, test and training equipment, spare...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 2, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will provide systems engineering services to the U.S. Army‘s intelligence and information warfare directorate under a three-year, $79 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it will help develop technologies that will work to ad...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has officially launched its new government services business segment upon the completion of the Newport News, Virginia-based military shipbuilder’s $380 million purchase of Camber Corp. announced in November. Huntington Ingalls said Friday the segment will operat...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 17 companies positions on a potential five-year, $750 million contract to provide a wide range of support services for the military branch’s operations in U.S. states and Puerto Rico. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract carries a one-year base value of $50 million and work could extend through De...
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded 13 companies positions on a potential three-year, $1.54 billion contract to provide agile design and development services for DHS. DHS awarded the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland contract vehicle as an agency-wide, small business set-aside program, the agency said in a FedBizOpps notice po...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 28, 2016 ” A business unit of BAE Systems will help develop a tool that will work to analyze small circuit features on a silicon integrated circuit chip under a $9.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Defense Department said Tuesday BAE’s inf...
November 21 – November 23, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Interest rates are all but certain to go up in December and one large defense contractor has seemingly gotten ahead of the game to make one more big buy before the Federal Reserve moves....
Laura Grant, head of digital innovation for public sector at SAP (NYSE: SAP), has said federal agencies should adopt in-memory computing platforms combined with data analytics tools in order to generate insights from large data sets and facilitate the decision-making process. Grant wrote that agencies should implement agile platforms that leverage t...
