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DARPA seeks to scale photonic computing with new program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks circuit-level innovations to reduce reliance on electronics that erase photonics' speed advantages.
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Air Force charts new path to recompete nuclear missile support work
Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.
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Recordings prove DIA wrong in $814M intelligence contract protest
The Defense Intelligence Agency could not support its evaluation findings that dinged SOS International and Amentum.
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New Pentagon science-and-innovation board arrives as administration cuts research funding
Even as department leaders work to fast-track new tech, the administration is slashing funding that supports and secures innovation.
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White House cyber shop is crafting AI security policy framework, top official says
ONCD chief Sean Cairncross also said a bedrock National Cyber Strategy, initially expected last month, is coming “sooner rather than later” without specifying a date.
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Accenture’s complaints over $1.6B Transportation Command contract fall short
The Government Accountability Office denies Accenture Federal's claims of a conflict of interest at CACI International, whose technical proposal and a willingness to take a lower profit won out.
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Pentagon chooses 7 for military data collection, analysis contract
Work under this contract directly supports the department's Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation.
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Court orders OMB to publish more info about how federal funding is distributed
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had asserted that officials violated an earlier mandate regarding the disclosure of spending data.
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NITAAC finally pulls the plug on CIO-SP4
The troubled $50 billion IT contract vehicle has faced hundreds of protests that the National Institutes of Health's acquisition arm could never fully resolve.
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As Trump administration cries ‘fraud,’ experts worry it does more harm than good
“It’s dismaying,” one longtime anti-fraud expert told Nextgov/FCW of how the administration is using fraud as rationale but firing the watchdogs that are tasked with finding it.
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AWS lands $581M sole source deal under Air Force Cloud One program
The three-year contract is the latest in a series of awards the service has made for its enterprise IT infrastructure modernization effort.
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‘We will have their backs:’ GSA pushes culture shift for FAR changes
Larry Allen of the General Services Administration says training and backing up contracting officers are critical for getting the acquisition workforce to embrace new flexibilities in acquisition regulations.
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GSA quietly rolls out CMMC-like cybersecurity framework for contractors
The General Services Administration's new requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information apply immediately to new contracts, at the contracting officer's discretion.
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State Department takes third look at Alpha Omega’s $10B Evolve protest
The department takes another corrective action after the contractor challenges its exclusion from the enterprise IT contract.
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Trump’s national defense strategy is unlike anything that’s come before it
It touts an end to interventionism and regime change, despite adventurism in Venezuela and Greenland.
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8(a) program faces unprecedented pressure from Trump administration attacks
Defenders of the small business contracting initiative say it enables rapid procurement, can meet administration priorities and the administration is overstating fraud concerns.
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Air Force Research Lab opens proposal window for $10B vehicle
This will be the lab's central mechanism for acquiring research-and-development support on behalf of the entire Air Force.
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Space Force previews $200M ground operations support recompete
The service branch unveils a draft solicitation for its effort to hire a contractor that can aid in the prototyping and operations of satellite ground systems and satellite operations centers.
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Funding rescissions, re-staffing initiatives and other major takeaways from the final FY26 funding package
Lawmakers again declined to provide Trump with most of the funding cuts he requested.
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