GALT Aerospace acquires electronic product maker
This is GALT’s first acquisition with the support of Godspeed Capital and adds a manufacturing facility that is intended to be the centerpiece for tech innovation and transition efforts. GALT Aerospace has acquired a maker of defense electronics products to push further into the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aspects in military technology development. North Star Scientific […]
In a show-me market, Leidos continues to show up
The Top 100’s perennial No. 1 company says demonstrated capability – not PowerPoint decks – is the key to winning business today. It took just 30 days for Leidos to go from first conversations with the Defense Department to signing a customer agreement to develop a new cruise missile variant. The company’s internal agility was needed […]
DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS
The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services. The Homeland Security Department has finalized the first out of four awards under Cumulus, a centralized contract for acquiring commercial cloud computing services across the entire organization. Amazon Web Services’ portion of the contract […]
SBA proposes opening 8(a) program to white-owned businesses
The Small Business Administration wants to eliminate race-based eligibility presumptions and create a new social disadvantage test for applicants. A proposed rule by the Small Business Administration would fundamentally rework the 8(a) program by eliminating race-based eligibility presumptions for minority business owners and opening the door for white-owned firms to enter the program. The proposed rule […]
WT 360: Key points (and questions too) from Trump’s fixed-price contracting and AI orders
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, overviews how industry is looking at what President Trump’s executive orders on fixed-price contracts and artificial intelligence mean for them, among other burning GovCon topics. The second Trump administration has outpaced the first one in terms of executive orders signed by the president, but this current tenure […]