Katrina McFarland, a director at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), cited training as key to better prepare the future acquisition workforce during an interview at the National Contract Management Association's World Congress 2019 event, Government Matters reported Sunday....
Guidehouse, a Veritas Capital portfolio company, has agreed to buy Navigant Consulting (NYSE: NCI) for approximately $1.1B in a move to create a global consultancy that will serve both the public and private sectors. Shareholders in Navigant will get a cash payment of $28 per share, a 16 percent premium over the Chicago-based company's Thursday...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and other companies are studying the potential use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in weather-related applications, Bloomberg reported Sunday....
President Donald Trump on Friday withdrew his plan to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to serve as the next director of national intelligence after lawmakers raised questions over his qualifications, the New York Times reported Friday....
On Monday, GovConWire reported that President Trump would nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to succeed Dan Coats as the director of National Intelligence. “I think that John Ratcliffe is going to do an incredible job, if he gets approved,” Trump told reporters at the White House via CNN. “I think we need somebody like th...
E3/Sentinel has bought Reston, Va.-based enterprise information management company Data Works as part of efforts to grow analytics, engineering and software development service offerings for the intelligence community market....
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has completed its $250M acquisition of Knight Point Systems. The purchase seeks to expand Perspecta's cloud, cyber, digital transformation and enterprise IT offerings intended to help modernize and transform government mission delivery, the company said Thursday. Baird served as the exclusive financial adviser to Knig...
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has finalized its acquisition of Tableau Software for approximately $15.7B in a push to expand capabilities to help customers advance their digital transformation efforts and generate insights from data....
Two Six Labs has won a potential five-year, $95.1M contract to work on a U.S. Air Force project that aims to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies....
A new PwC report says the U.S. aerospace and defense industry recorded $244B in 2018 sales and was the A&D exports leader last year with $132B in revenue....
