NTT Data Acquires Dell Services for $3.05B; Tim Conway Comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 — A Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NYSE: NTT) subsidiary has completed its purchase of Dell's services business under a $3.05 billion transaction to support the expansion of the former's consulting and information technology services portfolio, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 3. The newly acquired business will be rebranded as NTT Data Services with NTT Data...
A-T Solutions, Barbaricum, Leidos, OGSystems Win Spots on USSOCOM ISR Hardware IDIQ
TYSONS CORNER, VA September 9, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Tuesday on PAE company A-T Solutions, Barbaricum, Leidos and OGSystems landing spots on a $750 million contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance-related equipment for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has an ordering period...
Weekly Roundup July 27 – July 31 2015
Weekly Roundup July 27 - July 31 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Contract awards dominated the headlines in the GovCon sector this week but the multibillion dollar program known throughout the industry as “Dim Sum” was the one all observers had their eyes on in anticipation of who would be selected. That wait came to an...
Weekly Roundup July 20 – July 24 2015
Weekly Roundup July 20 - July 24 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The world’s largest aerospace and defense contractor kicked off this week with a twin bill of announcements on a future separation of its IT businesses and a new large acquisition for GovCon observers to examine. Lockheed Martin said Monday it will...
Weekly Roundup July 13 – July 17 2015
Weekly Roundup July 13 - July 17 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson One U.S. military service branch unveiled a new step in its efforts to adopt cloud computing technologies for its personnel with the help of a consortium of notable GovCon and IT firms. Dell, General Dynamics and Microsoft will help the Air Force build an...
Weekly Roundup July 6 – July 10 2015
Weekly Roundup July 6 - July 10 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson After our recap last week of the year so far in GovCon M&A’s announced and closed deals, market leaders and observers have another transaction to watch and prepare for as 2015 rolls on. SRA International, the technology services contractor started by...
Weekly Roundup June 29 – July 2 2015
Weekly Roundup June 29 - July 2 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The halfway point of 2015 and Fourth of July weekend offers us a good opportunity to look back on the year’s most significant developments in the GovCon sector, specifically in the M&A space. These six months have offered us announcements and...
Weekly Roundup June 22 – June 26 2015
Weekly Roundup June 22 - June 26 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Two companies with large GovCon market footprints -- a military services contractor and one of the world's largest airplane makers -- made long-awaited announcements this week on who would be their next chief executives. First, Falls Church-based DynCorp...
Weekly Roundup June 15 – June 19 2015
Weekly Roundup June 15 - June 19 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Several of the GovCon industry’s most notable players have aligned with each other -- and against each other -- in pursuit of a multibillion Air Force program to build a new set of surveillance planes for the service branch. The Joint Surveillance Target...
Weekly Roundup June 8 – June 12 2015
Weekly Roundup June 8 - June 12 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The GovCon sector saw another event in its mergers-and-acquisitions landscape this week but this move serves as a contrast from the other deals observed in 2015 so far. STG, the Reston, Va.-based contractor founded by Simon Lee in 1986, said it agreed to be...
Weekly Roundup June 1 – June 5 2015
Weekly Roundup June 1 - June 5 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The country’s mailing agency has kicked off an initiative to connect its drivers and vehicles to the Internet through mobile devices with an eye toward the “Internet of Things.” Randy Miskanic, the Postal Service’s acting chief information officer, told...
Weekly Roundup May 26 – May 29 2015
Weekly Roundup May 26 - May 29 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The chief executive for one of GovCon’s most storied companies commented this week on calls from both the public and private sectors for the government -- and the military in particular -- to make greater use of technologies from the commercial sector. Wes...