2025 Fast 50: Nomination period now open
The upcoming annual rankings will recognize the fastest-growing small businesses in the GovCon market. The nomination process is now open for the 2025 Washington Technology Fast 50 rankings. This is an opportunity for small businesses in the government market to highlight their accomplishments and the growth trajectory they are on. Click here to see and complete […]
Firefly sets the size, specs of its public offering
Like with Voyager Technologies and its IPO, Firefly is looking to ride a wave of investor interest in space amid expectations of spending increases. Firefly Aerospace has set the terms of its pending initial public offering and the valuation it is seeking to fetch from investors through the sale of stock, according to amended regulatory documents […]
SAIC’s CEO: ‘What was defense is now national security’
That description also extends to how Toni Townes-Whitley talks about the industry, but with a different word to describe its participants. Verbiage is supposed to evolve with the times, but the phrase “defense industrial base” has hung around to describe the private sector’s support of its military customer ever since the Cold War began. But in […]
What corporate slogans tell us about the Top 100
In this analysis by marketing and communications expert Joyce Bosc, she looks at the taglines of the Top 100 and tracks on companies and the market is changing. Every year, Washington Technology publishes its ranking of the Top 100 government contractors, based on an analysis of federal spending on IT, systems integration, telecommunications, professional services and […]
WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on Uber’s federal pact and procurement centralization
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for all GovExec publications including WT, jumps in to help connect the rideshare giant’s agreement with the General Services Administration and the agency’s agenda for reforming government contracting. Uber is the newest example of a consumer technology company entering into a government-wide arrangement with the General Services Administration, which negotiated the pact […]