You may know Jacobs through their large-scale facility operations, test and evaluation (T&E) capabilities; their many federal and commercial engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects; or maybe through their environmental remediation work. However, the Jacobs that you know appears to be changing. In the past 18 months, Jacobs has made acquisitions and divestitures to re-shape…
Accenture is a familiar competitor in U.S. Government contracting – the company’s work touches a breadth of programs and customers – but how much do we really know about Accenture? Making a name for itself in the management and IT consulting environment, Accenture is a formidable competitor that plays by its strengths. As we run…
Peraton is one of several new competitors that has emerged from the recent wave of M & A activity as a Veritas Capital property in April 2017. The company’s previous identity was the IT services business from Harris Corporation. After some months as the company with no name, they were re-born as Peraton. What is…
First things first…we LOVE working with capture teams. Such endeavors are always challenging and rewarding. While we do it as external consultants (typically in a Black Hat review), any facilitator, internal or external, must always face the same challenge to realize a meaningful output from a group-based exercise or session. We’re regularly engaged by GovCons…
ManTech seems to be flying under many GovCon’s radar but that won’t last much longer. It isn’t a secret that in January 2018, ManTech transitioned the CEO role for the first time in the company’s 50-year history. George J. Pedersen, one of ManTech’s two founders, turned over the reigns to Kevin Phillips, formerly ManTech’s COO….
Booz Allen Hamilton has been lighting up GovCon news pages this year with significant wins on Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) and Enterprise Machine Learning Analytics and Persistent Services (eMAPS). For those wondering how their portfolio has grown over the past few months, read ahead. Booz Allen Hamilton has over 24,000 employees and a fiscal…
We regularly conduct Black Hat reviews, working with many different teams serving different federal customers in a wide variety of service areas. We’re sharing these pitfalls with you to help you be aware of these traps in your own competitor analysis. When in doubt, we encourage all to remember the below quote from the best-selling…
Why do capture teams across the GovCon industry conduct Black Hat Reviews? The Black Hat Review process helps you better understand you vs. your competition. How a Black Hat Review is executed ranges from the highly informal approach (a.k.a. sharing rumors) to rigorous and structured workshops. While the highly structured approach may not always be…
Many of us may be asking what is Perspecta? The newly formed company has made a big splash after announcing an IPO and senior leadership team Perspecta is the union of the former DXC U.S. Public Sector (HP Enterprise Services), Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions. As the cycle of ever larger federal contractors continues, we…
8(a) contractors on the Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) IDIQ have a promising opportunity with the Department of State (DOS) coming up in the not-too-distant future (DOS? On a Health IT vehicle? You heard correctly). The Development, Engineering, and Integration Services (DEIS) contract, currently being performed by ActioNet, supports DOS’ Bureau…
