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Guidehouse protests $99M Coast Guard financial management contract award

The company challenges the evaluation process and questions whether the winner has the required experience for modernization support work.

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Marine Corps seeks light-based communications for contested battlefields

Free space optics technology could provide high-speed data transmissions with a lower risk of detection in denied environments.

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Shutdown’s end just the beginning as contractors face months-long recovery

The Professional Services Council estimates full recovery will not arrive until mid-March as agencies grapple with invoice backlogs, stalled payments and restarting contracts.

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Pentagon restarts work to craft $1B research support recompete

Three companies currently work with the Defense Department's main research and engineering office on aligning business operations and technology initiatives.

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Government to reopen after House votes to end longest-ever shutdown

Many furloughed workers, who will receive backpay, were already told Wednesday to report to work the following day for the first time in nearly six weeks.

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DHS seeks bids for $3B mobility support recompete

A final solicitation is now live for the Cellular Wireless Managed Services 3.0 contract, which covers roughly 150,000 connections across the Homeland Security Department.

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CMMC enforcement begins after eight years of warnings

"There is no excuse for industry to not be ready," observers say as enforcement begins.

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Unveiling acquisition overhaul, Hegseth tells industry to get with the program

One expert said the reforms would sweep away Cold War processes — and draw backlash from established primes.

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Why contractors should look past DHS’ reconciliation buys

The operational tails of border technology, cutter ships and workforce expansion offers more enduring opportunities.

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Contractors quantify shutdown damage as stoppages spread across missions

The Professional Services Council’s new shutdown tracker details program stoppages from Head Start to missile defense, naming contracts and counting affected workers.

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Experts see promise, risk in Pentagon’s draft acquisition reforms

A draft memo is circulating ahead of SecDef Hegseth’s Friday speech.

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Shutdown compounds a year of pain for federal contractors, employees

Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Virginia) says the closure amplifies the billions in contract cancellations and workforce cuts.

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MetTel modernizes GSA networks under $230M EIS order

Work included zero-trust architecture to improve security and low-earth orbit satellites to increase connectivity in and from remote locations.

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House Republican questions government stake in tech companies

Georgia Congressman Rich McCormick disputed the Trump administration’s approach to investing in the private sector while aligning with its broader low-regulatory regime.

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What companies get wrong about selling to DHS

Beth Cappello, a former Homeland Security Department deputy chief information officer, told our Power Breakfast audience who they should really be talking to and how to craft proposals that stand out.

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Veterans Affairs seeks input on its cloud buying future

The department wants to get a better handle on how it manages 757 applications and systems across two cloud environments.

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Transportation Command seeks zero-trust contract management system

TRANSCOM seeks a mature, cloud-enabled solution to replace legacy tools and support the military's all-domain command strategy known as CJADC2.

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Contractors fear retaliation if they try to recover shutdown costs

Legal rights do exist for companies to recoup their losses, but attorneys say fears of Trump administration reprisal loom over industry.

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Meet the White House pick to conquer the ‘Valley of Death’

James Caggy, a former advisor for the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, wants companies’ tech to match operational needs.

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Shutdown furloughs will permanently cost the economy at least $7 billion, CBO says

Unlike most of the shutdown's economic impacts, the lost productivity from feds not working cannot be reversed.