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Companies successfully challenge $237M Army award to Amentum

The Army backs away from its award for protective equipment following a pair of protests, so the branch can re-evaluate proposals and make a new award decision.

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Accenture prevails in battle for $3.5B Energy contract

Accenture's federal subsidiary clears an investigation over an alleged conflict-of-interest and will continue providing enterprise IT and business support services.

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DLA seeks more participants in $3.2B 'C5ISR' supply contract

The Defense Logistics Agency begins an open season to get some initial markers of interest from companies not on the contract.

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Aerodyne-Amentum venture wins $1.8B NASA contract

The new contract is called COSMOS and includes support for systems used in NASA's primary mission control center.

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FAA starts the bidding for new air traffic control system contract

The eventual winner will have three-and-a-half years to implement the new system.

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ServiceNow, GSA strike OneGov deal to drive government AI adoption

Government customers can access discounts of up to 70% off select ServiceNow products through the deal.

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NOAA awards 'Weather' block of $8B services vehicle

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wraps up awards for its ProTech 2.0 small business contract.

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GSA unveils 2 batches of 'apparently successful' Polaris bidders

Pending the results of any size challenges, the General Services Administration can still make adjustments to its choices for this government-wide IT vehicle.

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Microsoft offers major discounts to government customers in latest ‘OneGov’ deal

The discounts could be worth as much as $3.1 billion in year one, according to the General Services Administration.

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Space Force goes commercial for space domain awareness

Nearly 150 companies are vying for a spot in the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, a top official says.

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Small business joint venture wins Coast Guard cyber contract

The five-year, $160 million contract covers information assurance services from headquarters to ships at sea.

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Advocacy groups ask OMB to axe Grok AI procurement

Citing vulnerabilities and biased outputs in the program, multiple advocacy organizations and nonprofits signed a letter to the Office of Management and Budget asking it to bar Elon Musk’s Grok from federal workflows.

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Accenture challenges $1.6B CACI award

The contract will build a cloud-based platform to manage logistics operations for 36,000 Defense Department users.

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Veterans Affairs chooses 9 for $14B health care transformation recompete

VA described its ideal lineup of teams for this contract as having "combined their reach and collective capabilities to tackle some of VHA’s largest professional service requirements."

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Quantum computers have an isolation problem and DARPA wants to solve it

An emerging contract vehicle will focus on developing the hardware and software needed to get different types of quantum computers to communicate and work together.

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Air Force previews $920M aerospace equipment competition

The multiple-award contract is set up to fast-track the development and fielding of new technologies.

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Census Bureau lifts more curtains on $1B digital transformation pact

The agency is pushing for greater use of secure cloud applications and more advanced data science techniques ahead of the 2030 Census.

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GSA launches pilot to streamline FedRAMP for AI products

The FedRAMP 20x initiative will automate some approvals for what the General Services Administration is calling "conversational AI" if certain security conditions are met.

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Ask Sage protests a third OneGov AI agreement

The company is widening the scope of its argument that the products in question do not meet security requirements and the agreements violate other requirements.

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DTRA awards $3.5B recompete of counter-WMD support contract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency uses this program to acquire research, training and other professional services to help partner countries fight the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.