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Three tribally owned firms land $400M Air Force Pacific advisory deal

Cherokee Nation Government Solutions, SSE BB&E JV and KIRA Services will compete for task orders spanning Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Alaska and Wake Island through 2031.

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When the government blackballs your sub, CICA is no help

A dismissed protest shows how little recourse subs have when an agency knocks them out of a teaming agreement.

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Industry offers government a playbook for handling OneGov expirations

Some deals offering federal agencies significantly discounted access to software are set to expire at the end of the month.

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DISA sends mixed signals on combatant command network migration

After a protest, two RFIs, and a one-day comment window, the path forward is still unclear.

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Shutdown threat possibly lifted as House passes stopgap spending bill

The measure gives Congress more time to reach a deal on a comprehensive spending package for fiscal 2027.

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SBA’s size standard rewrite draws angry, frustrated comments

Critics say the rule would turn the small business program into a marketplace dominated by the biggest players.

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CMS taps Mathematica, Deloitte to improve effectiveness of its healthcare models

An agency spokesperson said the four-year Learning Insights for Action project “will enable CMS to efficiently target resources across models with varying periods of performance and support cross-model learning.”

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Army picks Dragonfly payload system for spectrum sensing

Research Innovations will provide and maintain the ruggedized sensors under a nearly $100 million, five-year contract.

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Air Force eyes overhaul of PLM program as Siemens contract nears 2029 end

An RFI seeking a modernized approach to how it updates and deploys the software it uses to manage data across its weapons systems.

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Marines want to move Camp Lejeune armory off paper and into the web

A new solicitation for a SDVOSB contract also leans on the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul deviation instead of the standard FAR.

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GAO tosses QinetiQ's protest of TCOM's $625M Polish aerostat deal

The decision clears the way for TCOM to deliver four surveillance aerostat systems to Poland under the foreign military sales program.

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GSA claims $13 billion in suspected fraud

But only two cases totaling $117 million in alleged fraud have been settled by the Justice Department for $29 million, and one of those cases predates the Trump administration.

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New contract aims to keep Space Force’s multi-billion-dollar projects on budget

Integrate was just for the service’s complicated launch programs. Now, it’s expanding.

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Army seeks small biz for live-fire range support deal

Winning bidder must field subject matter experts with master gunner-level expertise to support range assessments, target refurbishment and the Army’s training investment strategy.

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VA deploys new EHR at 3 Indiana-based medical facilities

The latest round of go-lives brings the total number of site rollouts this year to 11.

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CMS to rethink awards under $3.5B RMADA contract

Protests by Accenture and Rand Corp. pushed the agency to reevaluate proposals and possibly add them to the multiple award vehicle

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VA boosts EHR modernization contract with Oracle by $17B

The modified agreement raises the contract’s total value to just under $27 billion.

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CMMC's paradox: Scores are up, but confidence is down

As the cyber standard's third-party assessments are on pause, new research shows contractors’ self-reported scores are climbing even as their confidence in those ratings is sliding fast.

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SBA proposes sweeping rewrite of small business size standards

The Small Business Administration says this new methodology would base the standards on market size, not just receipts and number of employees.