The General Services Administration has awarded 24 small businesses spots on the first pool of a potential $3.45B contract to provide human capital and training support services for federal agencies....
Director of National Intelligence and a 2019 Wash100 winner Dan Coats will leave his post on Aug. 15, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday....
The Senate confirmed Mark Esper on Thursday to be the next U.S. Defense Secretary to end the Pentagon™s longest period without a Senate approved leader in office. The 2019 Wash100 Award winner was confirmed by a 90 to 8 vote in the Senate to officially succeed Jim Mattis in the role. Another big story of...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud-based technology platform designed to help government officials manage data on constituents....
Solis Applied Science has received a potential five-year, $77.4M contract from the U.S. Army to provide remote sensing and image science support to the National Ground Intelligence Center. Army Contracting Command solicited three bids and received one response for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday....
A new PwC report says the value of mergers and acquisitions in the global aerospace and defense industry was $58.3B in the second quarter of 2019 and the total deal value for year-to-date 2019 was $64.4B, increasing by 2.7x when compared with YTD 2018....
The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) and Stellex Capital Management have agreed to buy Portland, Ore.-based defense and maritime services firm Vigor Industrial and combine it with Stellex-owned MHI Holdings for an undisclosed sum to form a combined ship repair and fabrications services company....
Robert Cardillo, founder and president of The Cardillo Group, has joined the board of directors at mission software developer Analytical Graphics Inc. The 35-year intelligence community veteran also serves as an advisory board member at Peraton, Beacon Global Strategies, Cesium and HawkEye 360, AGI said Wednesday....
A Fluor-led (NYSE: FLR) consortium will continue to help manage the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in South Carolina under a $1.8B contract extension. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions manages the cleanup of facilities, wastes and materials used in nuclear weapons production during the Cold War....
Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to pay approximately $4.99B, including debt, for U.K.-based aerospace and defense contractor Cobham, Financial Times reported Wednesday. The price of the deal represents a premium of nearly 35 percent over the Wednesday closing stock price of Cobham....
