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DHS cancels S&T grants under a new mission focus for the directorate
The Department of Homeland Security’s national security research subdivision, the Science and Technology Directorate, will stop current grants and refocus its mission priorities.
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NASA previews hydrosphere research support recompete
The space agency is searching for a small business that can help create and apply technologies for addressing issues related to Earth's natural resources.
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Slingshot Aerospace secures Air Force contract to ‘fingerprint’ objects in space
The company is tasked with using artificial intelligence to analyze 4.5 million nightly observations from a global sensor network that tracks 14,500 satellites and other objects in space.
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DOGE guts HHS small business office in reorg effort
Only the OSDBU executive director remains to advocate for small businesses at the Department of Health and Human Services, which obligated $39 billion in contracts last year.
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GSA eyes 399 more small business awards for OASIS+
The General Services Administration identifies who it wants to join the 8(a), service-disabled/veteran-owned and woman-owned small business portions for the professional services vehicle.
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GSA makes two more batches of OASIS+ awards
The government-wide professional services vehicle now has 698 unrestricted primes and 1,563 general small business track winners with more to come.
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Energy selects 16 sites for AI data center construction, new energy development
The Department of Energy identified 16 locations on its own land to build the new infrastructure.
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Army wraps up awards for $379M training support contract
The Live Training Ranges and Combat Training Centers contract covers continues tech refreshments and other modernization work to aid in the readiness of soldiers.
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Spending and workforce cuts will harm VA’s modernization work, Democrats say
Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said cuts across VA are forcing the department “to decide between keeping staff on the floor, and investing in expensive equipment that may sit idle without enough personnel to operate it.”
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VA names 9 medical facilities that will receive new EHR in 2026
The department said it plans to deploy the modernized electronic health record at a total of 13 sites next year following a pause on most rollouts of the software that was instituted in April 2023.
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DARPA launches competition for $700M 'episodic mission IT' vehicle
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has no cap in the number of awards for this contract that covers application analysis and cybersecurity work, among other areas.
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Your contract termination has been reversed. Now what?
Agencies can call, and are calling, contractors back to work after telling them their services are no longer required.
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GSA chooses 9 for $919M supply chain monitoring software pact
The General Services Administration designed this blanket purchase agreement for other agencies to acquire tools that can help them vet suppliers and monitor for other risks to supply chains.
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GSA, DOD preview on-ramp for $1.8B readiness support contract
Roughly a dozen primes are currently involved in this contract called PRISM and the Defense Department wants to know if more small businesses can join them.
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Billions are on the line as DOGE, GSA increase scrutiny
A new analysis by TechnoMile looks at how exposed the General Services Administration's top 10 consulting firms could be, based on unexercised contract ceiling across three major spending categories.
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Army nixes planned $10B agile software development contract
There will be no solicitation for the New Modern Software Development contract vehicle, and therefore no award.
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Lawmakers try again with software licensing bill
This marks the third Congress in which the bipartisan bill has been introduced.
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Leidos fights for another chance at $89B national biomedical lab contract
The company has supported the only federally-funded research and development center focused on medical research for 17 years, but a challenger has wrestled the contract away.
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Army pauses bundled recompete of professional services, IT vehicles
The so-called MAPS contract is yet another big-ticket Army tech acquisition to enter a holding pattern two months into the second Trump administration.
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