SBA suspends 1,000 8(a) contractors for missing data submission deadline
These companies now have until Feb. 19 to submit financial records, but their reinstatement remains uncertain. With little fanfare, the Small Business Administration has suspended at least 1,000 contractors from the 8(a) program because they failed to submit data that SBA requested a month earlier. SBA said in December that sent letters to all 4,300 8(a) companies […]
Tetra Tech acquires IT modernization, analytics outfit
Tetra Tech is adding roughly 600 employees through its acquisition of Halvik Corp. Tetra Tech has acquired a provider of IT systems modernization and data analytics services in yet another move by the global engineering company to build out its federal technology practice. Halvik Corp. opened for business in 2007 to specialize in agile delivery and […]
BigBear purchases AI platform and tool suite from CargoSeer
CargoSeer designed its AI Shipment Inspection Platform to combine automated image analysis, computer vision and machine learning techniques with trade and cargo data. BigBear.ai has acquired a suite of technologies from a fellow artificial intelligence company with an eye toward expanding further into cargo inspection and trade risk management functions. CargoSeer opened for business in 2023 […]
The marketing lessons learned for government contractors in year 1 of Trump 2.0
After a year of evidence, the winning message is clear: outcomes over features, efficiency as strategy, and AI as a practical tool, writes Sean O’Leary of Susan Davis International One year into the Trump administration, government contractors now have something far more valuable than speculation: evidence. As we look back, 2025 made clear that this White […]
Funding rescissions, re-staffing initiatives and other major takeaways from the final FY26 funding package
Lawmakers again declined to provide Trump with most of the funding cuts he requested. A government shutdown at the end of January is looking unlikely, even as Congress has just more than a week to take critical votes to fund agencies for the remainder of fiscal 2026. Appropriators this week put forward a fourth spending package, […]
GSA wants answers from resellers about markups and equipment maker relationships
A new sources sought notice includes a set of questions about pricing and services, plus explanations on the fees charged by value-added resellers. The Trump administration is increasing its scrutiny of markup prices that value-added resellers charge on IT hardware sales to the federal government. A new request for information released Thursday morning asks VARs to share information about […]
DHS unveils initial sketch of enterprise cloud contract
To be called Cumulus, this new contract will cover all aspects of commercial cloud computing and is part of the Homeland Security Department’s push for more visibility into spending and usage. The Homeland Security Department has given industry a first glimpse at its plan to award a centralized, department-wide contract for acquiring commercial cloud computing services. […]
A handful of space and defense tech M&A moves to highlight
One of these transactions involves three defense technology and professional services providers, which are joining forces with private equity backing. Auria The space software specialist has made a pair of purchases aimed at further extending into space-based communications and intelligence. RKF provides satellite communications engineering and spectrum management tools to Space Force and other federal and […]
Defense contractor gets 4-year prison sentence for bribing Navy official with sports tickets
Philip Flores of Intellipeak Solutions received 8(a) contracts through a kickback scheme. A former defense contractor has pled guilty to a series of bribery charges linked to a series of Navy contracts his company was awarded. Philip Flores, owner and CEO of Intellipeak Solutions, will spend four years in prison and pay $80,500 in restitution. Flores bribed […]
Got an idea for reforming defense acquisition? The Pentagon’s all ears.
“We need radically different ideas,” says assistant defense secretary. HONOLULU—As the Defense Department works to overhaul its antiquated and clunky acquisition system, it wants to hear from you. “Bring us your most disruptive, most unconstrained ideas,” Mike Cadenazzi, assistant defense secretary for industrial base policy, said during a keynote speech at the Honolulu Defense Forum last […]