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 […]
The 2026 Top 100 shows a market that bent, but did not break
Prime contract value dipped just 1.2% despite DOGE cuts and government layoffs, but the defense-civilian divided is widening. Each year, the annual Washington Technology Top 100 rankings offer a glimpse into the current state of the market. After a year of DOGE and massive government layoffs, the early expectation for the Top 100 was that we […]
How DHA plans to end Leidos’ run as the military’s health record integrator
The Defense Health Agency intends to contract directly with Oracle Health and four other vendors behind the MHS Genesis ecosystem. DHA is also taking on the integration work itself. The Defense Health Agency plans to award five sole source contracts with the providers of the underlying technologies that feed into the military’s electronic health record, representing […]
Operations, tech and growth leadership moves across the market
A former FBI chief information officer and retired National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director feature in this listing. Amyx Jaclyn Robino has joined this IT-focused subsidiary of Tetra Tech as chief operating officer to help lead the next phase of its strategy, which is being led by newly-promoted President Richard Schult. Robino most recently spent 15 years at […]
Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract
The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management. The Navy has awarded 59 companies positions on a five-year, $249.9 million contract for IT integration and support services to aid in logistics efforts. Awardees will compete for task orders to help modernize and sustain […]
Woven Solutions purchases systems engineering outfit
Falfurrias Management Partners has supported Woven Solutions through four acquisitions since entering the investment a year ago. Woven Solutions has acquired a provider of systems engineering and software development services as part of a continued push to build out technology offerings for national security agencies. Insignis opened for business in 2017 to work with agencies on […]
KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete
The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps. KBR has won a five-year, $1.1 billion contract to continue helping the National Weather Service operate and maintain systems used for acquiring observational data from surface-based observing networks, commonly […]