Reporter's Notebook: Big news comes in bunches

<p>The month of February started with a bang with several important news stories breaking within days of each other, including big news from Leidos, SAIC and the CIA.<br /> Leidos closed a $1 billion acquisition and then announced another deal just as big. The next day the Navy picked them for the $7.7 billion NGEN award, a takeaway from the incumbent , Perspecta.<br /> Not to be outdone, SAIC announced their own deal, a $1.2 billion acquisition of Unisys Federal. And that deal will fundamentally change how SAIC goes to market.<br /> That's enough news for one week but we also had the release of the final CMMC standards, AECOM completed its spin-off of Amentum, PAE went public, Huntington Ingalls signed a $350 million deal to buy marine robotic developer Hydroid, and, finally, the CIA released the draft solicitation for its multi-billion cloud contract, Commercial Cloud Enterprise.<br /> And just to add a little more color, Amazon Web Services filed a request to depose President Trump and others as part of its protest battle over the JEDI cloud contract.<br /> Catching their breath, Editor Nick Wakeman and Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers give their take on what all this news means and what they see ahead in the market.</p>