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2024 NDAA eyes rapid ATOs for emerging tech

Artificial intelligence is also a hot topic within the annual defense policy bill.

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FBI to rethink troubled IT services contract

After several rounds of protests and amendments, the FBI is reworking parts of the solicitation for a group of blanket purchase agreements.

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Army chooses 12 for $975M training services recompete

Communications, operations and logistics are other key lines of work for the new contract.

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TechFlow secures $2.1B TSA logistics recompete

The company first won this work supporting Transportation Security Agency systems at airports and other locations in 2018.

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Veterans Affairs sheds more light on $14B transformation recompete

The department's main health care agency announces its decision on which companies will be eligible and reveals more on how teams can be structured.

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NIST chooses trio for $125M cyber services contract

The blanket purchase agreements run for five years and will support the agency's standards development mission.

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Court dashes hopes for second chance at $1.5B Commerce IT vehicle

The ruling ends the efforts of five companies to secures spots on the Commerce Acquisition for Transformational Technology Services contract, which is poised to open for task order business.

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Why NIST is prioritizing creating a dictionary of AI development

An official from the National Institute of Standards and Technology explained the need for a consensus on language as a means of developing common standards for AI.

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CRL wins $247M Navy aircraft office support recompete

The company has held this particular program for five years that focuses on aircraft.

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Congress takes up software supply chain security

The FITARA scorecard could become a vehicle for measuring agency progress against the administration's software security goals.

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AI’s military use is limited by maturity concerns, CENTCOM official says

A U.S. Central Command official noted that “performance is still quite up and down” with AI, even as officials continue to experiment with the emerging technologies.

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Veterans Affairs launches $2.4B recompete of user experience vehicle

A final solicitation is now live for this multiple-award effort known as SPRUCE, which seeks more modern and commercial-like software development services.

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HHS seeks zero trust support

The highly federated agency is looking for contactor assistance to hit enterprisewide security goals.

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ManTech wins $261M AF engineering, IT solutions contract

The work will focus on air dominance, weapons systems engineering and network solutions.

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NTT Data loses shot at CDC data center support award

DMI weathered a series of protests before finally prevailing to take over the $27 million contract.

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NASA unveils draft for $226M safety support recompete

The Safety and Mission Assurance Services III contract supports one of NASA's main scientific spacecraft and instrument development teams.

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Army releases draft for enterprise payroll system

The Army is collecting comments from industry on its plan for the recompete of a contract to help run the system that handles base pay, benefits, bonuses and re-enlistment functions.

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IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete

The tax collection agency is undertaking this recompete amid its broader push to overhaul the entire tech environment, which includes systems first stood up in the 1960s.

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DHS previews timeline for SETA vehicle recompete

This will be the fourth iteration of a go-to contract for the Homeland Security Department to acquire industry support for its science and technology team.

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DISA finalizes $1B testing support award

The Defense Information Systems Agency goes with a newcomer for this much-protested contract that evidently now has the green light to get going.