CMMC’s pause isn’t a cancellation
CMMC’s pause isn’t a cancellation
Contracts
Navy planning small business R&D contract
The Naval Research Laboratory wants to hire a provider of research-and-development work that focuses on how solar activity impacts satellites and Earth's ionosphere.
Companies
Financial, operations and growth leadership moves across the market
One of the market's most active private investment firms adds a new operating partner and a semiconductor maker brings in its newest public sector head, among other key hires and promotions.
Contracts
Senate clears spending measure, leaves other major bills unfinished
The chamber’s final hours before the August recess included votes on Russia sanctions and an attorney general nominee, but several high-profile measures were left unresolved.
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Boeing's sale of Insitu and more transactions to note
Acentra Health and Precise Systems move on acquisitions with their private equity backers as FedTec becomes part of a larger, more global enterprise.
Contracts
What history tells us about the potential government shutdown
Kicking the funding can down the road would prevent a government shutdown during the November midterms, but a flip of either the House or Senate would increase the odds of a prolonged December shutdown.
Opinion
GAO to DOGE: The ‘Wall of Receipts’ does not add up
The Government Accountability Office's review backs up what reporters and other observers were finding all along: overstated savings, undisclosed data problems and a wall that still cannot be trusted.
Contracts
Space Force launches $300M ground operations support recompete
A final solicitation is now live for the Hybrid Architecture and Development for Experimental Systems contract, which Space Force set up as a way to protect satellites from inefficient coding or commands.
Opinion
Agentic development will expose GovCon's old business model
Matt Jones, CEO at Sigma Defense, explains how a pickleball app epiphany showed him why contractors billing for hours — not outcomes — will not survive what is coming.
Companies
As AI models break free, White House works with firms on secret safety measures
Lawmakers are blasting administration's "ad-hoc" artificial intelligence strategy as tech giants pitch ideas to keep federal contracts flowing.
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Hadrian fetches $1.37B to add more automation-intensive factories
The six-year-old company has four sites for making precision parts and other components, with plans for more facilities in-the-works.
Contracts
GSA's agenda for resellers focuses on service pricing transparency
The General Services Administration's strategy for more unified technology purchases starts with baseline pricing for products, then eyes resellers as providing nearly everything else agencies need.
Opinion
CMMC Phase 2 is suspended but the requirements are not
Contractors supporting the department’s most sensitive missions still must be prepared to prove their cybersecurity posture, writes Jason Sproesser of Summit 7.
Companies
Palantir calls on GSA to withdraw draft AI acquisition rule
The stance is more aggressive than that of many groups representing contractors, who told GSA to revise, rather than withdraw, the proposed large language model acquisition rule.
Contracts
DHA wants out of the test infrastructure business it built
The Defense Health Agency says it is paying for capacity it does not use and now wants a commercial fix, not a bigger contract.
Contracts
Contractor alleges Army inappropriately used AI to make $450M contract award
An industry lawyer anticipates more bid protests will likely allege that agencies misused AI in the procurement process but that could be hard to prove if agencies don’t report their use of AI as “high-impact.”
Contracts
Library of Congress awards 5 seats on $162M IT support contract
Library officials created the contract to help it run network, database and web-based applications.
Companies
Tyto Athene rebrands as Quantum Sky
New CEO Andrew Boyd says the name change reflects a faster-moving, higher-stakes mission environment for its customers.
Contracts
CGI Federal books $251 million contract to modernize GSA's financial operations
The company will continue supporting the General Services Administration's Pegasys financial management system and multi-tenant shared application environment.
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