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CNO: ‘I need my stuff on time’
Adm. Daryl Caudle issued a direct call for transparent contracting with the maritime industrial base.
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Army extends training support contract for third time
OST Inc. will now perform work through 2027 as the Army revises its acquisition strategy to meet the Trump administration's commercial contracting goals.
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Crowded field of robot-boat makers vies for Navy's attention
Industry execs say service leaders are showing real interest—even if they’re not yet buying in bulk.
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Oracle books $88M Air Force Cloud One contract
This award follows a $581 million contract with Amazon Web Services as the Air Force continues to build out its multi-cloud infrastructure.
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Air Force launches program for resilient intelligence platforms
The RAPID program will use traditional and other transaction authority contracts to develop cloud-based tools that can combine multiple intelligence sources with automation and cyber defense tools.
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SAIC pushes back on $1.4B award that went to Accenture
The Army Corps of Engineers is using the five-year task order to modernize IT and cyber systems.
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Marines want uncrewed systems to sout, carry supplies and maybe attack across all domains
A new sources sought notice outlines the Marine Corps' search for vehicles and vessels to use in land, air, sea and underwater operations.
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Veterans Affairs decides to redo software license contract
The department will review its acquisition strategy for an enterprise asset management system following Four Inc.'s protest.
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NASA opens bidding for $1.8B engineering support contract
Technical expertise will trump price in this competition to provide an on-demand technical workforce across dozens of disciplines.
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GSA makes initial cut of choices for Polaris' woman-owned track
No one has been eliminated from the government-wide IT vehicle, which has a new group of 55 "apparently successful" bidders.
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CIA announces new acquisition framework to speed tech adoption
DARPA alum Efstathia Fragogiannis joined the agency as its new procurement chief in November and will be spearheading the effort, according to a CIA official.
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Veteran-owned business protests Army’s $5.5B sole-source Salesforce contract
TurboVets is challenging the Army's rationale for the award and claims can deliver a comparable platform and services.
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CISA orders agencies to patch and replace end-of-life devices, citing active exploitation
The directive gives agencies three months to identify unsupported edge devices, a year to begin removing them and 18 months to eliminate them entirely.
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DARPA seeks to scale photonic computing with new program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks circuit-level innovations to reduce reliance on electronics that erase photonics' speed advantages.
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Air Force charts new path to recompete nuclear missile support work
Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.
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Recordings prove DIA wrong in $814M intelligence contract protest
The Defense Intelligence Agency could not support its evaluation findings that dinged SOS International and Amentum.
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New Pentagon science-and-innovation board arrives as administration cuts research funding
Even as department leaders work to fast-track new tech, the administration is slashing funding that supports and secures innovation.
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White House cyber shop is crafting AI security policy framework, top official says
ONCD chief Sean Cairncross also said a bedrock National Cyber Strategy, initially expected last month, is coming “sooner rather than later” without specifying a date.
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Accenture’s complaints over $1.6B Transportation Command contract fall short
The Government Accountability Office denies Accenture Federal's claims of a conflict of interest at CACI International, whose technical proposal and a willingness to take a lower profit won out.
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