WT 360: Amentum’s post-merger growth strategy targets space, energy and defense

This $8 billion cash-and-stock transaction brings together a launch business and 66-satellite constellation.

A decade of mergers, divestitures and shifting priorities has reshaped the federal market. The next 10 years may be just as turbulent.

The Homeland Security Department set up this blanket purchase agreement to aid its migrations of business applications toward reusable services, such as cloud computing.

But concerns persist about the power and governance of software agents.

Constellis CEO Dan Gelston explains how the risk management services provider is looking to infuse analytics and artificial intelligence-driven technologies into an arena long defined by “Guards, gates, guns and dogs.”

The Small Business Administration releases its newest annual grading of how agencies worked to meet their small business contracting goals.

A pair of key hires in government relations teams and four board of directors additions also feature.

The compliance gauntlet isn't just slowing emerging tech vendors — it's eliminating them before agencies ever see what they're missing, writes Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems.

Agencies are expected to undertake two actions in service of enhanced security: execute a phased migration of cryptographic systems to prepare for quantum computing risk; and submit a PQC migration plan to OMB.

From a $63 billion autonomous systems push to $58.5 billion in AI investment, the fiscal 2027 request signals where the Pentagon is placing its biggest bets, writes ImmixGroup analyst Joshua Isler.