What does it take to deliver at least 20 percent revenue growth year after year?
Last month, we released a new study of high-growth firms, including 445 government contractors. We found three key findings from that study that your business can use to improve your growth prospects.
Source: 3 secrets highly successful firms use everyday — Washington Technology
I’ve been to a lot of Fed 100 galas over the years and they are always a good time. Produced by our sister publication FCW, the event is a great vehicle for recognizing what’s good in the market as it honors 100 people who have delivered extraordinary value to their agency and customers.
Source: Today’s Fed 100 reflects changed market — Washington Technology
You’d think there would be a little more suspense but once a federal court ruled against a protester it was a forgone conclusion that AT&T would win the contract to build a nationwide public safety network.
Source: It’s official: AT&T wins $100B FirstNet award — Washington Technology
President Donald Trump signed legislation Monday to eliminate a worker safety rule issued during the Obama administration that required contractors to disclose safety violations before they work for federal agencies.
Source: Trump signature strikes down Obama contractor order — Washington Technology
It often isn’t until we have the complete roundup of mergers and acquisitions for a given year that we realize how many important deals occurred in the government market.
Source: 70 deals shaping today’s market — Washington Technology
As we looked through all of the closed merger and acquisition transactions from 2016, 10 deals quickly bubbled to the top as the best deals of the year.
Source: Who are the market’s top deal makers? — Washington Technology
The new administration seems intent on downsizing government and government programs, and they have four years to accomplish the task. The proposed budget cuts across civilian agencies will impact contractors in a huge way.
Source: Be prepared: GWACS, IDIQs will grow in this age of uncertainty — Washington Technology
In our first WT Contractor Confidence Index since the election of President Donald Trump, the index has soared to 113.3.
That’s 15 points higher than the last index we released in August, prior to the election.
EDITOR’s NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.
A new federal watchdog analysis of governmentwide contracting data shows a decline in defense agency contracts to buy products and services over the last five years, but commitments to buy IT and telecom services remained top priorities for defense and civilian agencies.
Source: GAO study: Defense felt brunt of sequestration — Washington Technology
There are a lot of different ways to rank government contractors – prime dollars, number of employees, market valuation, etc.
But for Visible Thread there is only one way to rank them – let your software crawl their websites and analyze them for readability, passive language, long sentences and word complexity density.
Source: What you should learn from a ranking of the best contractor websites — Washington Technology