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DHA releases sample tasks for $700M software development vehicle

The Defense Health Agency is seeking to give industry a clearer picture of what it is asking for through the contract called DevMAC.

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FBI to rethink BPA program following protests

A "clarification" from the agency on the solicitation means the eliminated bidders are back into the competition.

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NGA faces challenges to $250M cyber award

A pair of disappointed bidders want a second shot at this National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency contract reserved for small businesses.

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Labor rates sunk Leidos' bid for $2.4B NSA contract

A decision on Booz Allen Hamilton's protest is still pending, but the Government Accountability Office's ruling on Leidos' protest gives a first peek inside the National Security Agency's evaluation.

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Space Force focusing on innovative procurement methods for commercial software

The Space Force is leaning on rapid prototyping and new software pathways to keep up with the commercial sector and its growing suite of software and services for space, according to a top official. 

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Court hits GSA over handling of Polaris small biz contract

A federal judge has told the General Services Administration to change how it evaluates past experience examples and pricing. The implications could stretch beyond just this one governmentwide IT contract.

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NGA awards $900M mission support contract

We know all the names of the 13 awardees, but given the classified nature of the work there is little publicly available.

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Veterans Affairs picks 4 for $1B telehealth support contract

The work supports efforts to monitor patients' chronic health conditions while they are at home.

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DCS wins $2.1B Army ground vehicle engineering contract

Work takes place at one of the Army's main research-and-development hubs for collaboration between defense and automotive industry entities.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau looks to boost cyber posture

The competition is underway for a set blanket purchase agreements to meet CFPB's cybersecurity needs and add protections to the financial data it holds.

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6 big-ticket contracts to watch in 2023

These multiple-award opportunities range in potential estimated value from $5 billion to $100 billion.

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OMB, CISA set to release common form for software self-attestation

Federal CISO Chris DeRusha said the new standardized approach to collecting self-attestation forms from third-party software providers could be released as early as this week.

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DARPA looking for flaws in business systems

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to better understand what leads to breakdowns in these systems.

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AFRL wants white papers for $500M quantum information science solicitation

The Air Force’s scientific research component issued a broad agency announcement calling for the research, design and development of quantum technology.

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Interior previews $10B cloud contract recompete

The draft solicitation is now live with a quick response turnaround time for some aspects, and much longer runway for other aspects industry wants to weigh in on.

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DHA seeks comments on $700M application development vehicle

The Defense Health Agency is looking to transform how it delivers care and build off of its electronic health record integration program.

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VA pauses future EHR deployments under ‘larger program reset’

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it plans to delay future rollouts of the new EHR system until it is confident that the software “is highly functioning at current sites and ready to deliver for veterans and VA clinicians at future sites.”

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Talent and chip production go hand-in-hand

A group of leaders from government, industry and academia explain how the U.S. needs to solve the workforce challenge in order to meet its semiconductor needs and innovate.

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NASA chooses joint venture for $719M engineering recompete

Work under this contract supports a constellation of environmental satellites used to help develop weather prediction models.

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NASA chooses small biz joint venture for $814M IT contract

This is the most recent of several awards by NASA to push toward an agency-wide model of acquiring IT support.