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DHS' $3B mobile device contract faces protest
Turning Point Global Solutions is disputing Widepoint's incumbent capture of the Cellular Wireless Management Services III award.
Companies
Lockheed, Ondas move on tech-focused acquisitions
Maritime systems, including sonar, and autonomous vehicles are the key areas of interest for both buyers.
Companies
Iridium closes deal to expand air traffic network
The acquisition of Aireon comes as Iridium prepares for its $8 billion takeover by Rocket Lab.
Contracts
OPM’s HR systems award clears protest window
None of Oracle’s competitors have filed objections to the $396 million Federal HR 2.0 contract.
Companies
DLH promotes finance chief JohnBull to CEO
The board of directors also elevates a new chief financial officer as CEO Zack Parker retires from the position.
Companies
Growth, finance and tech leadership moves across the market
Plus, one global financial giant appoints a new leader for its commercial banking team focused on this industry, among other key hires and promotions.
Companies
AWS launches Secret Cloud for industry’s classified workloads
The company made several announcements geared towards its government customers, including up to $1 billion in cloud credits for U.S. intelligence agencies.
Opinion
The third best practice GovCon keeps ignoring
Your Shipley process and CRM are only as good as the customer intelligence feeding them. Most firms have never measured that capability, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
Opinion
New executive order pushes agencies toward quantum-ready AI security
EO 14409 sets a high bar for protecting AI models and training data — and agencies can't do it alone; they need help from their vendors, writes Gina Scinta, CTO of Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies.
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TSA launches $13B security screening tech solicitation
The Transportation Security Agency set up this multiple-award contract to support its efforts to transition away from being both operator and regulator at airports.
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Parsons subsidiary awarded $245M Navy ground station contract
Space Ground System Solutions will provide software development and other IT-related services at this Naval Research Laboratory location.
Contracts
HHS to pit AI vendors against each other in parallel pilots
The Health and Human Services Department wants real operational data across multiple platforms before finalizing its enterprise acquisition approach.
Opinion
Federal acquisition rewrite leaves cybersecurity confusion unresolved
As the government overhauls its procurement rulebook, contractors are still grappling with a persistent problem that shapes how they price, plan, and perform work. This includes information that must be protected and those responsible for identifying it, writes Lindy Kyzer of ClearanceJobs.com.
Companies
Lawmaker warns of administration’s ‘fetishization’ of Silicon Valley startups
Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., discussed his plans to scrutinize Trump-era contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight and push for AI policy.
Companies
An initial look at the combined Rocket Lab-Iridium government business
This $8 billion cash-and-stock transaction brings together a launch business and 66-satellite constellation.
Top 100
42 companies from the 2016 Top 100 are gone. What happened to them?
A decade of mergers, divestitures and shifting priorities has reshaped the federal market. The next 10 years may be just as turbulent.
Contracts
DHS moves on awards for $640M technical services pact
The Homeland Security Department set up this blanket purchase agreement to aid its migrations of business applications toward reusable services, such as cloud computing.
Contracts
Agentic-AI tools aims to give US commanders new target options ‘within seconds’
But concerns persist about the power and governance of software agents.
Companies
WT 360: All about Constellis’ approach for extending security perimeters
Constellis CEO Dan Gelston explains how the risk management services provider is looking to infuse analytics and artificial intelligence-driven technologies into an arena long defined by “Guards, gates, guns and dogs.”
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