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DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS

The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.

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SBA proposes opening 8(a) program to white-owned businesses

The Small Business Administration wants to eliminate race-based eligibility presumptions and create a new social disadvantage test for applicants.

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How DHA plans to end Leidos’ run as the military's health record integrator

The Defense Health Agency intends to contract directly with Oracle Health and four other vendors behind the MHS Genesis ecosystem. DHA is also taking on the integration work itself.

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Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract

The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management.

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KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete

The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps.

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White House discussions are weighing giving CISA Mythos access

Officials have considered having the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leverage the advanced AI model that was designed to detect previously undiscovered cyber vulnerabilities to scan federal agencies’ networks.

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Oracle wins $396M federal HR systems overhaul contract

The Office of Personnel Management is using the contract to consolidate more than 100 systems into a single platform covering 2 million federal employees.

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GSA gets moving on second batch of Polaris SDVOSB awards

Pending size challenges, this group of 17 companies would join the batch of 27 companies that have been designated official winners.

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NIH pulls the plug on its government-wide contracts

End dates for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-CS contracts mark the official demise of a program that never recovered from the CIO-SP4 debacle.

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Trump memo pushes national security agencies to move faster on AI

The directive calls for deeper partnerships with AI companies while directing agencies to guard frontier models and the data centers that power them from foreign adversaries.

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Warner unveils bill to restore cyber information-sharing program funding

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee also sent letters to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and to every governor urging them to support state and local cyberdefense.

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House lawmakers want the Navy to deploy drone boats faster

A draft of the 2027 defense policy bill would push service leaders to develop a clear strategy.

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EHR modernization needs better cyber and privacy collaboration, GAO says

The Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office needs to improve its interagency coordination to address potential privacy and security vulnerabilities in the new system, according to the watchdog.

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CISA sketches out timeline for incident response, threat hunting contract

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is seeking an industry partner to help deploy, develop and maintain technologies used by its threat hunting office.

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VA embarks on its search for enterprise cloud broker

This contract would designate a company as the Veterans Affairs Department's primary assistant in acquiring cloud computing capabilities from the hyperscalers and software tool makers.

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State Department seeks small businesses for LEO satellite terminals

The future contract would support off-grid operations for U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide through the Remote Expeditionary Area Communications Hub program.

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KBR wins $8B Antarctica research recompete

KBR's government services unit beats out three other bids as it prepares to go it alone as an independent public company.

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VA seeks contractor to tackle 10 years of ad-hoc automation

The Veterans Affairs Department is looking to acquire a commercial platform and professional services to standardize and govern infrastructure automation across its hybrid IT environment.

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GSA publishes ‘Elimination, Optimization and Automation’ playbook for government agencies

The playbook’s framework has already helped the agency save hundreds of thousands of hours, and other agencies can now make use of it to launch their own automation initiatives.

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Army seeks contractor support for war planning, medical logistics

The Army Material Command is in the market research phase of a contract that could run for five years.