Contracts

OASIS+ clears its final pre-award protest hurdle

A combination of denied protests and corrective actions means that every small business category of the massive professional services contract could be open for business by the end of this calendar year.

Contracts

Bipartisan quantum funding bill advances from committee

The Department of Energy Quantum Leadership Act of 2024 will head to the Senate floor as part of a push to continue federal investment into quantum computing research and development.

Companies

DOD reveals first draft of $15B artificial intelligence contract

The Defense Department wants more companies in the fold for Advana, a multi-domain analytics and AI platform that DOD wants to further scale out.

Companies

BlueHalo acquires underwater robotic tech provider

The technologies that VideoRay specializes in are also what it will bring to AeroVironment, when the latter closes its acquisition of BlueHalo.

Podcasts

WT 360: All about V2X’s new chapter of optimization

Jeremy Wensinger, V2X’s chief executive since June, goes over how the company is looking past the heavy-lifting of integration after the 2022 merger that created it and focusing on taking the broader portfolio to market.

Companies

Unanet adds AI tool through GovPro acquisition

Unanet brings in an artificial intelligence capability to its portfolio of offerings that help companies respond to solicitations.

Companies

Space, finance and talent leadership leadership moves across the market

Two of the government market's most notable publicly-traded companies also announce the newest members of their boards of directors.

Opinion

Good luck, Department of Government Efficiency

COMMENTARY | It sounds like a federal agency, but its job is to get rid of them.

Contracts

More OASIS+ protests fall short

The Government Accountability Office has denied three more challenges to the government-wide contract's small business awards, leaving just two more to be resolved.

Contracts

Assertive Professionals wins $127M MDA professional services contract

The Missile Defense Agency made this award as part of its family of contracts known as TEAMS.

Companies

CoreStack enters federal market through acquisition

Karthhik Consulting's team of 125 employees provide cloud security and compliance offerings to federal agencies, a new set of customers for CoreStack whose primary clients have been in financial services and health care.

Contracts

DIU orders software to drive massive drone swarms

The software glue holding the Replicator effort together is beginning to harden.

Contracts

Dell, Iron Bow agree on Army pricing allegation settlements

A whistleblower kicked off a Justice Department investigation into allegations that Dell and Iron Bow worked together to overcharge the Army for IT products.

Companies

Booz Allen's venture arm invests in deepfake prevention company

Booz Allen Ventures is one of several investors in Reality Defender, which uses artificial intelligence tools to spot deepfakes and other synthetic media.

Opinion

The Silent Killer 2: The four words that saved a recompete

In part two, BD expert Nic Coppings explains how even engineers and line managers can play a vital role in winning recompetes.

Companies

CACI details the tech and talent legs of its strategy

Investor day presentations like this newest one from CACI are an opportunity to go deeper into a company's strategy. Here are some main takeaways from two key portions of the event.

Contracts

New TSA cyber rules leave lawmakers, industry hopeful for happy medium regulations

The agency argues its Nov. 8 proposed rulemaking will dually address the transportation industry’s regulation concerns while ensuring they’re suitably protected from hackers. Others want to wait and see.

Companies

ManTech hires pair of intelligence business execs

Gavin Greene will focus on business development and Joseph Schneider will run program operations.

Companies

AeroVironment builds out defense tech portfolio with BlueHalo acquisition

The combination creates a larger player in uncrewed systems, technologies to counter them and space offerings.

Companies

How LMI incubated its own generative AI tool before going to market

LIGER emerged out of the company's technology studio and while data scientists built it, the grander goal was for everyone to use it.