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Skip to Content Log In Email Address Password Forgot your password? Not a member? Sign up now! Federal technology integrators spent much of fiscal year 2025 trying to see what a new world order of contracting would look like, then fiscal 2026 was all about settling into that environment.

The Trump administration on Thursday announced billions in investments from the federal government to help advance U.S. scientific research and development, with almost a dozen leading tech companies also committing to provide cloud and software credits to help the White House follow through on its Genesis Mission initiative.

Government contractors will have a range of large opportunities to pursue in 2027, but the market will not be without its challenges. Deltek released a pair of reports this week tracking the market's top 20 full-and-open opportunities and top 10 set aside contracts for small businesses. The full and open side includes LOGCAP VI, which Deltek estimates has an $82 billion ceiling, to the Army’s Marketing and Advertising Program worth up to $4 billion.

Accenture Federal Services Nathaniel Parker has joined the professional services provider’s subsidiary for the U.S. government market as chief information security officer, a role he brings two decades of industry experience to. Parker most recently spent 10 years at Boston Consulting Group’s federal business, including the past seven as CISO. He is also a former senior security engineer for MIT Lincoln Laboratory. AFS announced Parker’s new role in a LinkedIn post.

The U.S. intelligence community is working to improve how it buys and adopts technology. Progress varies across agencies, but the direction is clear: the IC needs faster and more flexible ways to bring commercial software, cloud computing, geospatial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other emerging capabilities into mission workflows. Commercial technology often moves faster than government budgeting, acquisition, security, and integration processes.

Chickasaw Nation Industries’ federal contracting subsidiary has acquired a communications and network engineering services provider in a move to further build out the defense portfolio. SNR Systems opened for business in 2006 and also specializes in Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol label switching technologies, also known as IP/MLPS. These systems are designed to speed up network connections by using short path labels to deliver data instead of the traditional method of IP address searching.

Aventra This maker of autonomous precision payload systems has collected $17.5 million in new capital to aid efforts in accelerating current production efforts and expanding the tech roadmap. Aventra was founded in 2025 by Army veterans Michael Weigand, Brian Retherford and Jessup Meng to develop the systems for rapid fielding and employment from stratospheric altitudes.

HawkEye 360 has hired a new executive leader for its U.S. government business in John Monahan, a 35-year defense sector veteran and former Lockheed Martin executive. HawkEye 360’s U.S. federal portfolio centers around signals intelligence offerings to include space-based radio frequency data, signal processing and analytics.

The Trump administration has barred multiple technology companies from hiring workers from outside the U.S. under H-1B visa program. At the top of the administration's list is Microsoft, which Vice President J.D. Vance called the "biggest abuser" of the program. Microsoft laid off 6,000 workers in 2015 while adding 6,300 people via the H-1B visa program and another 3,000 workers with Green Cards, Vance said at a White House briefing Thursday.

General Dynamics' longtime CEO Phebe Novakovic is turning the reins over to company president Danny Deep, effective Jan. 1. Novakovic will then transition to executive chairman of the board of directors after having led GD since 2013. Deep is a 25-year veteran of the company. “Danny is a highly skilled executive with rich operating experience. It has been a pleasure working closely with him and I am certain he will be an outstanding CEO,” Novakovic said in the company’s Wednesday announcement.