Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. Coupled with those changes is the work of both public and private sector organizations to hire qualified talent with skills and […] More

Bill Bennett serves as Director of AECOM‘s Defense Department and Intelligence Community information technology services programs. Bennett worked at Engility‘s TASC subsidiary as director of the defense business unit before he joined AECOM in April 2015. He has also led the U.S. Army and defense intelligence group at CGI Federal and was a principal systems engineer with Lockheed […] More

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on commercial weather data services that could help address the Defense Department’s requirements for space-based environmental monitoring weather information. The remote sensing systems directorate of the service branch’s space and missile systems center asked interested companies to submit white papers as responses to the RFI […] More

Michael Niggel and his partners started Advanced Concepts and Technologies International — or ACT I — in 1998 with an initial division dedicated to foreign military sales. The Arlington, Virginia-based government services contractor now has five divisions that provide acquisition and program management support services to U.S and international defense agencies for programs such as the F-35 Joint […] More

Abt Associates has named Glen Anderson as senior economist on adaptation and development assessments for climate-smart development practice within the company’s industrial economic growth division. “Glen Anderson deepens our bench of leading climate economists and scientists at Abt who are working at the local, national and global levels to help assess the risks of climate change […] More

The Professional Services Council and Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce have named the finalists for government contracting vendor and executive honors at the 13th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards Nov. 5. PSC said Thursday the awards recognize the leadership, commitment and innovation of businesses and leaders in the Washington metropolitan area’s government contracting community. “Each year we are privileged […] More

TASC, an Engility Holdings subsidiary, has received a potential $53.2 million contract to help the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center engineer radar systems. The Defense Department said Friday the contract has an initial value of $35.4 million and includes foreign military sales transactions with South Korea, Taiwan and Poland. TASC will also provide logistics, […] More

TASC, an Engility Holdings subsidiary, will exhibit its geospatial intelligence applications technology platform at the four-day U.S. GEOINT Foundation’s 2015 Symposium in Washingto, which starts Monday. Engility said Wednesday TASC designed the Innovative GEOINT App Provider Program for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help application developers create mapping applications with unclassified geospatial information. IGAPP is intended to act […] More

Engility‘s TASC subsidiary has won a six-year, $66.9 million contract to provide horizontal integration and systems engineering support services for the U.S. Air Force. TASC will carry out baseline maintenance, verification and testing work at Los Angeles Air Force Base under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The Space and Missile Systems Center received three […] More

Omar Balkissoon, co-founder and CEO of OGSystems, said Monday the company has used an investment from venture capital firm General Catalyst to develop new technology products for defense and intelligence customers. “We… are responding to the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s call for action to innovate and increase research and development activities addressing the […] More

A new PwC report on the mergers and acquisitions in aerospace-and-defense industry says deal activities increased in 2014 compared to 2013 and the number of transactions worth at least $1 billion doubled from the prior year. The firm’s Mission Control report, authored by PwC Global A&D Leader Guillaume Rochard and U.S. A&D Leader Chuck Marx, says the total deal value reached $22.3 billion in 2014, up from the $14.3 […] More