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DOGE Federal IT Vendor Impact Series: Leidos
In FY25 Leidos will tout its mission-critical solutions to enhance outcomes quickly, cost-effectively and at scale for federal agencies. Leidos will accelerate efforts to draw closer to its federal clients, emphasizing how they can more effectively utilize the company’s delivery scale and depth of mission expertise to comply with DOGE’s mandates, the overarching IT objectives of the Trump administration and the enduring need to modernize federal technology infrastructures.

DOGE Federal IT Vendor Impact Series: CGI Federal
CGI Federal is confident it can adapt to outcome-focused contracting in federal IT but is uncertain how quickly the transition can be completed. CGI Federal has been a perennial margin leader in TBR’s Federal IT Services Benchmark due to its traction with its ever-expanding suite of homespun intellectual property (IP)-based offerings like Sunflower and Momentum, and demand for these offerings will at least endure, but likely increase, under DOGE.

DOGE Federal IT Vendor Impact Series: General Dynamics Technologies
GDT is not going to give up on the federal health market or on consulting, but TBR anticipates the vendor will increasingly prioritize defense opportunities in the interim, such as a recently awarded contract worth up to $5.6 billion to manage the DOD’s Mission Partner Environment. The DOD has historically been GDT’s largest client and was responsible for more than 58% of its revenue in 1Q25. While the Trump administration is asking for a 23% reduction in nondefense discretionary funding in its FFY26 budget proposal, it wants to keep the DOD’s discretionary spending roughly on par with the $892.5 billion stopgap for FFY25. GDIT is well positioned to capitalize on the DOD becoming increasingly interested in emerging technologies, given its experience with fixed-price and outcome-based contracting.

DOGE Federal IT Vendor Impact Series: IBM Federal
CACI believes demand will remain strong through the remainder of its FY25 and into its FY26 for technologies and capabilities at the core of the company’s portfolio. Uninterrupted sales growth and consistent margin performance indicate CACI’s offerings remain well aligned to the Trump administration’s IT investment priorities, particularly as the new administration prepares to expand investment in cybersecurity, national security and national defense, and advanced space-based communications systems for defense, intelligence and civil applications. CACI executives also noted that the federal budget environment is slowly becoming more constructive and more transparent, a positive harbinger for CACI and its fellow federal IT contractors.

DOGE Federal IT Vendor Impact Series: CACI
CACI believes demand will remain strong through the remainder of its FY25 and into its FY26 for technologies and capabilities at the core of the company’s portfolio. Uninterrupted sales growth and consistent margin performance indicate CACI’s offerings remain well aligned to the Trump administration’s IT investment priorities, particularly as the new administration prepares to expand investment in cybersecurity, national security and national defense, and advanced space-based communications systems for defense, intelligence and civil applications. CACI executives also noted that the federal budget environment is slowly becoming more constructive and more transparent, a positive harbinger for CACI and its fellow federal IT contractors.

Trade Wars and the Professional Services Fallout: Talent, Growth and Operational Models in Flux
Trade wars and tariff uncertainties conjure up visions of cargo ships, ports, factories and stacks of goods stranded by economic chaos, not consultants and IT services professionals. Fear, uncertainty and doubt are usually good for the consulting business, while the higher costs of running a business fuel demand for more outsourcing. This time, things might be different. This trade war, even if partially suspended for now, may significantly disrupt professional services, especially if tariffs continue creeping into new areas and the trust deficit continues to grow. Steel now, services later.

Infosys, Cognizant, TCS and Wipro ITS Double Down on Competitive Pricing Strategy While Trying to Enhance Client Engagement
This quarter, TBR Fourcast looks at four India-centric vendors — Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro IT Services (ITS) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) — and analyzes how investments in portfolios, training and innovation are positioning them for growth.

5 Key Questions on Big Four Evolution and Strategy
The Big Four professional services firms — Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — have all been undergoing organizational changes in the last couple years. TBR regularly hears five questions about how these firms manage themselves, grow and change. Taking a longitudinal view allows TBR to see that recent restructurings, layoffs and offerings all reflect how these firms are trying to address the following: who gets the best talent, who decides what’s next, who sells, how everyone in a firm knows what everyone else does, and what role will managed services play.
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The Middle East’s Economic Transformation: A Real Decoupling or Persistent Uncertainty?
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystThe long-sought-after growth of strong non-oil economies, the eventual weaning of these pivotal Middle East countries from subservience to the price of oil is happening now and happening quickly. And should a trade war break out between the U.S. and the European Union (EU) or the U.S. and China, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — and the rest of the Middle East economies — will suffer. A production surge by the world’s largest oil producer — the U.S. — would further dampen oil prices, constraining Middle East governments’ budgets. Not everything is perfect, but certainly the big picture looks promising: Non-oil economies in oil-led countries have shown persistent, seemingly lasting growth.
New IT Services Vertical Revenue Data Shows TCS’ Public Sector Surge and Market Shifts
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystLearn about TBR’s new IT Services Vertical Revenue Data Excel file. This proprietary data stream, in conjunction with our qualitative analysis of these firms, including their partners and how they operate, offers unprecedented intelligence on which companies are growing or maintaining their revenue or experiencing declines within industry verticals and allows for partner adjustments and competitive maneuvering.
Fujitsu Expands Kozuchi AI Platform and Strengthens Partnerships to Drive Digital Transformation
/by Kelly Lesiczka, Senior AnalystFujitsu’s investments in Fujitsu Kozuchi have equipped the company well to appeal to clients’ needs around the technology, providing opportunities to supply analytics with associated text, vision and trust in support of business operations. While AI technology evolves rapidly to include new capabilities, Fujitsu’s approach to developing the platform and leveraging partners and internal capabilities gives it an advantage in offering a wider set of services.
New Solutions Drive New Revenue Streams for Atos’ Manufacturing Clients
/by Elitsa Bakalova, Senior AnalystAtos has established expertise around delivering predictive maintenance solutions and is applying its skills across industries. The company is working with multiple clients in the theme park and attractions industry, utilizing data and AI as well as edge server technologies to reduce the downtime of rides and improve customer satisfaction.
Federal IT Spending Poised for Another Strong Year in Fiscal 2025
/by John Caucis, Senior AnalystThe new federal fiscal year began with a continuing resolution (CR) that extended government funding until Dec. 20, when a subsequent CR was enacted to fund federal operations until March 14, 2025. Further CR extensions in federal fiscal year 2025 (FFY2025) would cause budget delays that could impede the ability of federal IT contractors to convert backlog into revenue, but most vendors expect revenue growth to remain on a solidly upward growth trajectory in FFY25.
Robots Protecting Themselves From Robots: The Future of AI Security and Vendor Differentiation
/by Bozhidar Hristov, Principal AnalystDemand for analytics services has reached an inflection point, with new opportunities around the development and implementation of secure, industry-aligned agentic AI solutions refueling growth.
B2B Strategic Advantage: Ecosystem Intelligence
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystVendor consolidation and enterprise optimization of existing digital stacks have compelled IT services companies and consultancies as well as their ecosystem partners to think strategically about who to partner with and how to secure and expand their position within the ecosystem. As a result, aligning business priorities with alliance partners will allow IT services companies and consultancies to develop a more empathetic approach to technology-fatigued buyers. Additionally, understanding pricing and commercial structures backed by common knowledge management programs will elevate the value of joint services and appeal to enterprise buyers’ appreciation of a separation of labor, supported by greater transparency and accountability.
KPMG Shifts Focus to Legal Services and AI-driven Strategy Consulting
/by Bozhidar Hristov, Principal AnalystEarlier in January news reports surfaced that a subsidiary of KPMG, KPMG Law US, had applied to operate in Arizona under a state program allowing nonlawyers to operate law firms and provide legal services in the state. KPMG is leaning toward legal services and AI-infused strategy consulting offerings to bolster sales as the firm navigates choppy market conditions within core deal advisory.
Infosys’ Future: Scaling GenAI and SLM Innovation to Drive Growth and Stakeholder Trust
/by Bozhidar Hristov, Principal AnalystDeveloping a client-ready AI-first portfolio is not a strategy unique to Infosys, but keeping pace with the rapidly evolving generative AI (GenAI) market highlights the company’s appetite for innovation and helps it strengthen stakeholder trust. Over the past 24 months, a large portion of vendor-client discussions focused on experimenting with developing and running large language models (LLMs), often fed with either public or nonessential data. Growing adoption of the technology has introduced the need for developing SLMs that are either function or industry specific.
What Spectrum Will 6G Use?
/by Chris Antlitz, Principal AnalystThe telecom industry continues to struggle with realizing new revenue and deriving ROI from 5G, even after five years of market development. TBR continues to see no solution to this persistent challenge, and with no catalyst on the horizon to change the situation, CSPs’ appetite for and scope of investment in 6G will likely be limited.