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GAO sustains protest against WidePoint's $3B DHS mobility win
Turning Point Global Solutions wins its challenge to the evaluation, but the Government Accountability Office rejects conflict-of-interest claims against the incumbent.
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CGI Federal, DLA team up to test quantum and agentic AI for logistics
The Quantum Pathfinder effort with the University of Tennessee will target warehouse and supply chain challenges with a focus on improving resilience.
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SBA formally reopens size standards comment period after portal lag
Both proposed rules now accept comments through Nov. 20, as the Small Business Administration's Advocacy office projects a fraction of the 115,000 new small businesses the agency originally estimated.
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Agriculture to go down LPTA path for software tool buy
The Agriculture Department gives small businesses less than a week to turn around quotes.
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GSA claims it found $1.2B in suspected COVID-related contracting fraud
The agency previously said it found $13 billion in suspected procurement-related fraud and is investigating other sources of potential fraud.
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Navy adds $876M to L3Harris Growler jammer award as production nears
The added scope covers production tooling, more test pods and cybersecurity work for the U.S. Navy and Australia's air force.
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Booz Allen expands research work with $85M AFRL design contract
The 10-year award focuses on integrated design of aircraft, propulsion and power systems.
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Veterans Affairs previews timeline for enterprise AI services competition
A final solicitation for the potential three-year contract is just around the corner and will task the winner with rolling out artificial intelligence capabilities to 540,000 users.
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GAO gives Battelle narrow reopening to win $8B Antarctica contract
The Government Accountability Office rejected most of the challenges in Battelle's protest, but found the National Science Foundation improperly credited KBR with an affiliate's past performance record.
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DHS exploring new biosurveillance capabilities as biological threats evolve, officials say
DHS Science and Technology Directorate officials said emerging technologies are forcing the agency to rethink how it detects biological agents.
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SBA reopens size standard comment period, slashes estimates of its impacts
The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy now says only 4,000 to 6,000 companies would become small businesses, not the 115,000 originally estimated.
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NOAA unveils first blueprint for mobile device management contract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants a cloud-hosted offering to manage its inventory of devices that run off the Apple, Microsoft and Google operating systems.
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NATO’s thumbs-up for AWS shows Europe still needs America
The company has become the first cloud provider to win approval to handle sensitive data for all alliance members.
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Space Force starts to craft satellite communications integration contract
The service branch gives industry an initial glimpse at its plan to hire a technical integrator for mission planning, resource management and other functions.
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FAR Overhaul gives contracting officers more flexibility on contract type
The proposed rule rewrites shift to a permissive framework and incorporate Trump’s fixed-price contracting executive order.
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Oasis protests Army C-UAS contract win by Parsons Corp
The protester is claiming evaluation flaws and an unresolved conflict-of-interest tied to Parsons making the systems it could potentially be testing.
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FAR Overhaul targets commercial buying and negotiations in newest rewrite
Parts 12 and 15 have revisions ready for industry to read, while two other parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation are deleted entirely in a push to increase competition.
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DHS sets fast-track schedule for network, cloud and cyber consolidation vehicle
The Homeland Security Department is working against a compressed timeline to make awards for this contract to centralize IT operations at headquarters and across components.
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Anthropic extends $1 per user OneGov deal by a month
The OneGov extension means discounted access to Google Gemini is the only deal under the program currently set to expire at the end of this month.
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