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DHS wraps up Oracle's Cumulus cloud contract
The Department of Homeland Security has two more hyperscaler awards to finalize before it can move ahead on a separate competition for this enterprise cloud program.
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Lockheed's $10.5B Special Operations award faces protest
General Dynamics' One Source arm is arguing the command's logistics and sustainment award decision was unreasonable.
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Navy planning small business R&D contract
The Naval Research Laboratory wants to hire a provider of research-and-development work that focuses on how solar activity impacts satellites and Earth's ionosphere.
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Senate clears spending measure, leaves other major bills unfinished
The chamber’s final hours before the August recess included votes on Russia sanctions and an attorney general nominee, but several high-profile measures were left unresolved.
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What history tells us about the potential government shutdown
Kicking the funding can down the road would prevent a government shutdown during the November midterms, but a flip of either the House or Senate would increase the odds of a prolonged December shutdown.
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Space Force launches $300M ground operations support recompete
A final solicitation is now live for the Hybrid Architecture and Development for Experimental Systems contract, which Space Force set up as a way to protect satellites from inefficient coding or commands.
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GSA's agenda for resellers focuses on service pricing transparency
The General Services Administration's strategy for more unified technology purchases starts with baseline pricing for products, then eyes resellers as providing nearly everything else agencies need.
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DHA wants out of the test infrastructure business it built
The Defense Health Agency says it is paying for capacity it does not use and now wants a commercial fix, not a bigger contract.
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Contractor alleges Army inappropriately used AI to make $450M contract award
An industry lawyer anticipates more bid protests will likely allege that agencies misused AI in the procurement process but that could be hard to prove if agencies don’t report their use of AI as “high-impact.”
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Library of Congress awards 5 seats on $162M IT support contract
Library officials created the contract to help it run network, database and web-based applications.
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CGI Federal books $251 million contract to modernize GSA's financial operations
The company will continue supporting the General Services Administration's Pegasys financial management system and multi-tenant shared application environment.
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File-naming blunders doomed MAPS protest, not ambiguities
JAAW Group’s protest also was dinged because it cited a non-existent case, which the Government Accountability Office cited as evidence of careless use of artificial intelligence.
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12 firms land spots on DHS's $1.5 billion counter-unmanned aircraft contract
The Homeland Security Department set up this contract to cover hardware, software and services for many types of operational use cases.
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DHA picks 12 for $300M product deployment contract
The Defense Health Agency hires a pool of companies to aid its deployment, training, change management and sustainment activities.
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CACI lands $500M contract to scale up SkyValor counter-drone system
The system is moving into full-rate production following a series of tests at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
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K2 Space fetches $500M for its move to mass production
The four-year-old large satellite maker is pushing to build as many as 100 of them per year, some of which are contracted to be a part of the Golden Dome missile defense system.
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Space Force picks 15 for $981M test, evaluation support contract
This contract focuses on Space Force’s efforts to provide operators an environment of different types of ranges ranges for their test and training work.
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DCS loses protest over Army's $237M soldier gear contract redo
The company wanted the Army’s corrective action to go further, but the Government Accountability Office disagrees. That clears the Army to look at revised proposals and make a new award decision.
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Sole-source awards are down, but their share of the pie is not
An analysis of GovTribe data finds non-competitive contract awards are down 20% through July, but they claimed a bigger slice of all federal contracts.
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