One of the Beltway’s biggest defense contractors is about to get a lot bigger

Beltway defense giant General Dynamics is flexing its considerable financial muscle as the industry prepares for a windfall of new defense spending.

Arlington-based defense contractor CACI International said last week that it had withdrawn an earlier $7.2 billion bid for CSRA, a government information technology services conglomerate, ending a brief bidding war and clearing the way for General Dynamics to become a market-leading behemoth in government IT.