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....
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....
A new report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says General Dynamics recorded $9.6B in sales during the second quarter of 2019, up 4 percent from the prior year period....
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will build competing prototypes of a 50 kilowatt-class laser weapon system for Stryker vehicles under a potential $203M other transaction authority agreement secured by Kord Technologies from the U.S. Army....
Jim Garrettson, founder and chief executive officer of Executive Mosaic, presented Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), with his second consecutive Wash100 Award during Potomac Officers Club’s 6th Annual Intel Summit on Wednesday. ...
Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient Mark Esper will review the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract before the Department of Defense awards it, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday....
Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has said that she will prioritize integration and cost synergy efforts related to SAIC's acquisition of Engility, Inside Defense reported Wednesday....
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...
