ICF holds to its 2025 outlook as shutdown drags on
In talking with Wall Street, CEO John Wasson describes technology modernization efforts as continuing and programmatic work as more impacted at its largest federal client. ICF is holding to the financial outlook it presented at the start of this year and to expectations of a return to growth in 2026, even amid the bumpy ride 2025 […]
Transportation Command seeks zero-trust contract management system
TRANSCOM seeks a mature, cloud-enabled solution to replace legacy tools and support the military’s all-domain command strategy known as CJADC2. Transportation Command is getting closer to a contract award for a commercial, cloud-based IT management system that uses a zero-trust architecture to replace its fragmented legacy tools. The contract is part of the command’s efforts to […]
WT 360: Shutdown fallout, SAIC and market churn lead this episode’s agenda
Carten Cordell and Edward Graham, respectively managing editors at WT’s partner publications Government Executive and NextgovFCW, join Nick and Ross to go over all things shutdown in this episode’s first part. Then for part two, Nick and Ross unpack SAIC’s CEO transition against the backdrop of today’s market landscape. The government shutdown is now in week […]
The CMMC bottleneck: When compliance demand outpaces capacity
With only 366 certficiations completed and mandatory rollout beginning in less than two weeks, defense firms need smarter tools to meet cybersecurity requirements without breaking the bank, writes Steven Hess, CEO, Deep Fathom. Compliance has increasingly become an operating drag as organizations struggle to keep pace with the expanding surface area of risk and demands on […]
Upcoming White House cyber strategy to seek more involvement with private sector
The Trump 2.0 cyber strategy is in development, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said, though he did not elaborate on when it would be released. President Donald Trump’s national cybersecurity strategy is expected to draw in more partnerships with the private sector while setting principles that seek to avoid an overly-prescriptive or regulation-heavy approach to cyber […]
Contractors fear retaliation if they try to recover shutdown costs
Legal rights do exist for companies to recoup their losses, but attorneys say fears of Trump administration reprisal loom over industry. Government contractors face mounting costs and operational chaos as the federal shutdown stretches every closer to the longest in U.S. But there’s another problem besides late payments and expired contracts: Companies are frightened and fearful to […]
Arlington Capital fetches $6B for its seventh fund
The private equity firm’s most recent high-profile action in the market was its sale of BlueHalo to AeroVironment. Arlington Capital Partners, one of the government market’s most active private equity firms, has collected $6 billion in capital for its newest fund for investing in companies across the federal and highly-regulated sectors. The firm said Thursday it […]
ICF details C-level leadership shuffle amid CFO’s pending retirement
Barry Broadus will retire from ICF on March 1 and James Morgan is slated to become chief operating and financial officer, while Anne Choate is being promoted to president. ICF has undertaken a series of leadership changes in its C-level executive team that will go into effect during the first quarter of next year, including the […]
Meet the White House pick to conquer the ‘Valley of Death’
James Caggy, a former advisor for the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, wants companies’ tech to match operational needs. The White House’s pick to field new technologies across the military faster says most U.S. companies want to sell to the Pentagon, but they don’t understand what the military needs. “One of the things I’ve observed over the […]
Shutdown furloughs will permanently cost the economy at least $7 billion, CBO says
Unlike most of the shutdown’s economic impacts, the lost productivity from feds not working cannot be reversed. Forcing a large swath of the federal workforce not to work for going on a full month is having significant and lasting impacts on the economy, according to a non-partisan legislative branch review, causing a loss of at least […]