Just one month after acquiring Wyle for nearly $600 million, KBR has agreed to buy Honeywell Technology Solutions for about $300 million, positioning KBR as a larger player in the government professional services industry.
Defense IT and Services
July 29, 2016
The Army reported dramatic shifts in its annual "superior supplier" list, dropping 20 business units from its annual ranking of defense contractors compared to 2015 -- more than half the entire roster -- while promoting 17 suppliers to higher positions, including seven new business segments in the most prestigious Tier 1 group.
July 29, 2016
Five Navy suppliers improved their position -- and three made a new appearance -- in the service's annual "superior" rankings, a Defense Department program the service pioneered to identify exceptional cost, schedule, performance, quality and business relations by defense contractors.
July 28, 2016
L-3 Communications is increasing its focus on acquisitions, company executives said Thursday.
July 28, 2016
The Raytheon executive leading the company's international business told Inside Defense a strategic change adopted in recent years has helped the company grow its number of customers abroad.
July 27, 2016
Northrop Grumman is considering the best way to reshape its technology services business, seeking to move it away from providing commodity services, according to the contractor's chief executive.
July 27, 2016
Some of the largest defense contractors said Wednesday that profits grew in their most recent quarter.
July 21, 2016
Following private-equity firm the Carlyle Group's purchase of Novetta, a longtime defense contracting executive has taken on the task of fully integrating and growing the company's federal work.
July 19, 2016
With more than 70 employees in its wargame and exercise unit, Booz Allen Hamilton is expanding the type of simulations it handles as well as the purpose of these exercises.
July 18, 2016
As the Pentagon calls for contractors to implement insider threat programs, industry experts say companies should look beyond the minimum standards and consider the benefits such a program could provide in protecting intellectual property.
July 15, 2016
A number of government officials weighed in last week on the considerations of and risks posed by the use of lowest-priced, technically acceptable contracts.
July 14, 2016
Government spending hit bottom last year, and improving budgets will make growth among contractors achievable, one chief executive told Inside Defense this month.
July 7, 2016
The Congressional Budget Office is working to analyze why the Defense Department's operations and maintenance budget continues to grow, despite a concurrent decrease in the size of the U.S. military force structure.
June 27, 2016
Cybersecurity company Tresys Technology, which was purchased by a private-equity firm in 2013, is aggressively pursuing growth, but not through acquisitions, the company's chief executive tells Inside Defense.
June 27, 2016
Cybersecurity company Tresys Technology, which was purchased by a private-equity firm in 2013, is aggressively pursuing growth, but not through acquisitions, the company's chief executive tells Inside Defense.
June 22, 2016
Faced with reconciling its defense policy bill with that of the House, the Senate Armed Services Committee is summoning government and industry officials to provide expertise on the issues.
June 22, 2016
Faced with reconciling its defense policy bill with that of the House, the Senate Armed Services Committee is summoning government and industry officials to provide expertise on the issues.
June 14, 2016
The chief executives of four services contractors said Tuesday the market isn't getting easier, but their private-equity ownership has proved helpful.
June 6, 2016
Focused on innovation, Booz Allen Hamilton has pursued a closer relationship with technology companies and a more agile approach, the company's chief executive told Inside Defense this month.
May 26, 2016
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved a provision it says would incentivize non-traditional contractors to perform independent research for the Pentagon.