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The Genesis Mission has a security problem

DOE's federated AI compute initiative is advancing faster than the security architecture designed to protect it, writes Ian Lee, director of advanced computing solutions at ShorePoint.

  • By Ian Lee

DOD excels at prototyping. Getting to production is another story.

Acquisition reform may be the bridge, but the paths from prototype to funded program remains unclear.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Army unveils first sketch of commercial tech contract for test, evaluation

Army officials are currently looking at separate product and services pools for this multiple-award vehicle.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy preps science-and-tech strategy built for speed and focus

Two service leaders in technology development spoke at the Defense One Tech Summit.

  • By Bradley Peniston

DISA starts to craft $850M Army-focused cyber recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to hear from companies with experience in large-scale cyber initiatives and Zero Trust architectures.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Empower AI books $255M DISA enterprise IT recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency is emphasizing targeted automation for the next cycle of this progra.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Shaped charges from coffee grounds? Pentagon science chief describes future of war

Joseph Jewell sees AI, biotech, new ways of production, as key to military capability.

  • By Bradley Peniston

DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS

The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SBA proposes opening 8(a) program to white-owned businesses

The Small Business Administration wants to eliminate race-based eligibility presumptions and create a new social disadvantage test for applicants.

  • By Nick Wakeman

How DHA plans to end Leidos’ run as the military's health record integrator

The Defense Health Agency intends to contract directly with Oracle Health and four other vendors behind the MHS Genesis ecosystem. DHA is also taking on the integration work itself.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract

The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management.

  • By Ross Wilkers

KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete

The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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White House discussions are weighing giving CISA Mythos access

Officials have considered having the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leverage the advanced AI model that was designed to detect previously undiscovered cyber vulnerabilities to scan federal agencies’ networks.

  • By Alexandra Kelley
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Oracle wins $396M federal HR systems overhaul contract

The Office of Personnel Management is using the contract to consolidate more than 100 systems into a single platform covering 2 million federal employees.

  • By Nick Wakeman

GSA gets moving on second batch of Polaris SDVOSB awards

Pending size challenges, this group of 17 companies would join the batch of 27 companies that have been designated official winners.

  • By Ross Wilkers

NIH pulls the plug on its government-wide contracts

End dates for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-CS contracts mark the official demise of a program that never recovered from the CIO-SP4 debacle.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Trump memo pushes national security agencies to move faster on AI

The directive calls for deeper partnerships with AI companies while directing agencies to guard frontier models and the data centers that power them from foreign adversaries.

  • By David DiMolfetta

Warner unveils bill to restore cyber information-sharing program funding

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee also sent letters to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and to every governor urging them to support state and local cyberdefense.

  • By David DiMolfetta

House lawmakers want the Navy to deploy drone boats faster

A draft of the 2027 defense policy bill would push service leaders to develop a clear strategy.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

EHR modernization needs better cyber and privacy collaboration, GAO says

The Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office needs to improve its interagency coordination to address potential privacy and security vulnerabilities in the new system, according to the watchdog.

  • By Edward Graham

CISA sketches out timeline for incident response, threat hunting contract

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is seeking an industry partner to help deploy, develop and maintain technologies used by its threat hunting office.

  • By Ross Wilkers