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Navy preps science-and-tech strategy built for speed and focus
Two service leaders in technology development spoke at the Defense One Tech Summit.
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DISA starts to craft $850M Army-focused cyber recompete
The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to hear from companies with experience in large-scale cyber initiatives and Zero Trust architectures.
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Empower AI books $255M DISA enterprise IT recompete
The Defense Information Systems Agency is emphasizing targeted automation for the next cycle of this progra.
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Shaped charges from coffee grounds? Pentagon science chief describes future of war
Joseph Jewell sees AI, biotech, new ways of production, as key to military capability.
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DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS
The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.
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SBA proposes opening 8(a) program to white-owned businesses
The Small Business Administration wants to eliminate race-based eligibility presumptions and create a new social disadvantage test for applicants.
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How DHA plans to end Leidos’ run as the military's health record integrator
The Defense Health Agency intends to contract directly with Oracle Health and four other vendors behind the MHS Genesis ecosystem. DHA is also taking on the integration work itself.
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Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract
The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management.
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KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete
The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps.
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White House discussions are weighing giving CISA Mythos access
Officials have considered having the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leverage the advanced AI model that was designed to detect previously undiscovered cyber vulnerabilities to scan federal agencies’ networks.
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Oracle wins $396M federal HR systems overhaul contract
The Office of Personnel Management is using the contract to consolidate more than 100 systems into a single platform covering 2 million federal employees.
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GSA gets moving on second batch of Polaris SDVOSB awards
Pending size challenges, this group of 17 companies would join the batch of 27 companies that have been designated official winners.
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NIH pulls the plug on its government-wide contracts
End dates for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-CS contracts mark the official demise of a program that never recovered from the CIO-SP4 debacle.
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Trump memo pushes national security agencies to move faster on AI
The directive calls for deeper partnerships with AI companies while directing agencies to guard frontier models and the data centers that power them from foreign adversaries.
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Warner unveils bill to restore cyber information-sharing program funding
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee also sent letters to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and to every governor urging them to support state and local cyberdefense.
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House lawmakers want the Navy to deploy drone boats faster
A draft of the 2027 defense policy bill would push service leaders to develop a clear strategy.
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EHR modernization needs better cyber and privacy collaboration, GAO says
The Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office needs to improve its interagency coordination to address potential privacy and security vulnerabilities in the new system, according to the watchdog.
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CISA sketches out timeline for incident response, threat hunting contract
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is seeking an industry partner to help deploy, develop and maintain technologies used by its threat hunting office.
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VA embarks on its search for enterprise cloud broker
This contract would designate a company as the Veterans Affairs Department's primary assistant in acquiring cloud computing capabilities from the hyperscalers and software tool makers.
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