This week's cover story explores five key players in the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile merger.

Sprint's proposed merger with T-Mobile would be quite a transition, but it also would be one of many, many the company has experienced since its founding in 1899 in Atchison, Kan. Here's a sampling of some of the highlights.

After months of delays, the Department of Veterans Affairs signed its $10 billion contract with Cerner Corp. Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie announced that the contract had been signed Wednesday afternoon, making Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) the holder of "one of the largest IT contracts in the federal government." Wilkie said the contract would have a ceiling of $10 billion over 10 years. Congress allocated $782 million for the effort in fiscal year 2018. "And with a contract of that size, you can…

T-Mobile sets pay raises for its remaining executives, but what will the rest of Sprint and T-Mobile leadership get in the event of a merger?

Min Kao, co-founder and chairman of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), sold $6.7 million in company stock through two scheduled transactions on Tuesday and Wednesday. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kao sold 58,043 shares on Tuesday and 53,414 shares on Wednesday. The sales were part of a pre-arranged trading plan Kao announced in early March to sell an undisclosed portion of his holdings. To date, Kao has sold more than 456,000 shares, for a total estimated value of $27.4…

A final rule approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would give Kansas and Missouri broader authority to define health insurance plans. The rule, passed Monday, would give insurers and states more flexibility in selecting what essential health benefits plans must include. It also adds exemptions to the individual mandate and gives states the ability to review network standards for qualified health plans, which previously was a task for the federal government. “Too many…