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Leidos wins $149M Air Force IT sustainment contract

Project Night Owl focuses on how the Air Force works in a secure cloud environment based on Microsoft's Azure offering.

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Judge denies protests over $10B Army IT hardware contract

Seven companies challenged their removal from the ITES-4H competition for allegedly not meeting compliance requirements.

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Air Force seeks contractor to help secure global shortwave comms network

The service branch is in the early development stages of a five-year contract for cyber services to support its High Frequency Global Communications System.

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Where can GovCon find clarity in the Trump transition turbulence?

Contractors, their government customers, and pretty much everyone across the public sector ecosystem is trying their best. But here are some steps and action items that companies can follow.

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ANALYSIS: Signs of small business shifts to watch out for

It's unlikely that the Trump administration will completely abandon small business contracting, but a change in who those dollars go to appears likely with DEI efforts being rolled back. In this analysis, we establish a baseline for where the spending is today.

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GSA procurement pause sparks confusion

A new memo halts all General Services Administration-funded contract awards, a move that raises questions about scope and legality as industry leaders look for clarity.

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Special Operations Command previews $2B network equipment recompete

The command uses the T-REX contract to acquire products for system integration, communications, signals processing and other key networking capabilities.

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First wave of DEI-related contract cancellations hit the market

An even larger number of contracts are seeing modifications that drop requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Assured Information Security wins $300M Air Force recompete

The company will continue its support of SecureView, a government-wide standard for enabling remote network access at multiple levels.

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GSA announces new FAS, TTS leadership

The new leaders are interested in working with Elon Musk’s DOGE.

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Contractors face greater scrutiny from anti-DEI executive orders

President Trump’s actions come with enforcement provisions that encourage employees to report on their companies.

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HHS pause on external comms delaying upcoming health summits

Two planned events have been indefinitely postponed as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on HHS-related mass communications and public appearances.

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Demo concerns emerge in fight for $1B Army business system contract

New filings from the protester Groundswell allege both an improper evaluation process and technical misrepresentation on the Army's part.

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Treasury chooses 10 for $20B cyber support pact

Appropriately dubbed PROTECTS, this blanket purchase agreement aims to set up an enterprise approach for cybersecurity across the Treasury Department.

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Trump axes Biden’s AI executive order

President Donald Trump vowed to repeal the order during campaigning and in his presidential platform.

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Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech

Trump is wielding — and renaming — the US Digital Service in service of the DOGE.

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Accenture Federal wins $3.5B Energy IT recompete

The so-called CBOSS blanket purchase agreement is the Energy Department's main mechanism for acquiring IT support services.

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GSA will ‘recommit’ to ‘founding purpose,’ says acting administrator

Stephen Ehikian, previously of Salesforce, has been tapped to serve as GSA’s acting administrator. 

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DARPA looking for tools to test AI

The agency wants ways to assess the variety of threats to artificial intelligence-enabled systems deployed across DOD.

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Air Force challenges GAO after $300M satellite contract protest

The service branch wants a reconsideration after the Government Accountability Office sided with ATP Gov over certification requirements for portable satellite terminals.