Companies
Maximus creates venture group to search for innovation
Company leaders tell investors the fund will make "small bets" on promising startups and pilot projects to test their technologies for usage in health and human services.
Contracts
Ukraine war teaches the value of early collaboration
This conflict's biggest lesson might be found in the need to build more of a "connective tissue" between the commercial satellite industry and the military before the next war.
Companies
Multiple priorities drive investments across the defense market
Increases to both global threats and the national debt create a complex business environment.
Companies
How Vibrint will push toward $500M revenue mark
CEO Tom Lash says the rebranded company's keys to growth include focusing on national security agencies and investments in technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
Contracts
Protests could delay Polaris awards
The small business IT contract faces challenges to how bidders can revise their proposals to update their past performance and experience examples.
Contracts
Federal Transit Administration seeks bids on $670M grant oversight contract
The multiple-award contract will support FTA’s main infrastructure grant program that distributes money to state and local governments.
Contracts
A reader's guide to the upcoming draft CMMC rule
Market observers have advice on what to read and how to comment when the Defense Department releases its proposed cybersecurity rule for the industrial base.
Contracts
AI executive order draws some praise, but where are the resources?
The order’s guardrails on artificial intelligence development and adoption also spotlight the importance, quality and location of data.
Contracts
More troubles for GSA's Polaris small business contract
A new protest raises a common complaint others have raised: mentor-protégé joint ventures have an unfair edge in the competition for the IT solutions vehicle.
Contracts
Federal CIO to industry: Build opportunity roadmaps off of executive orders
Clare Martorana believes companies should look to White House initiatives like the digital services memorandum as a guide for future business.
Contracts
DHS agrees to evaluate Arch Systems' allegedly 'corrupted' proposal
But the agency is not providing details on why it was unable to view the company's bid.
Opinion
The 2023 Fast 50 showcases small business tech skills
Our annual ranking of the government market's fastest-growing small businesses highlights all they do for agencies in key technology priorities like cyber, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and application development.
Opinion
CIO-SP4 drove spike in bid protests
Unhappiness with the National Institutes of Health's main IT contract vehicle contributed to a 22% increase in protests during the government's 2023 fiscal year.
Contracts
SEWP VI heads toward final solicitation
NASA sees its three-decade-old contract vehicle for buying IT products and services as having more flexibility.
Contracts
Awards for $60B Veterans Affairs IT vehicle look imminent
VA sounds confident enough to give a timeline for when it will make selections for the T4NG2 contract, even as one protest remains active in the courts.
Companies
CGI Federal brings the metaverse to Marine logistics
The company sees this pilot project as having broad implications across areas like defense, law enforcement and disaster recovery.
Companies
Google centers public sector strategy on alliances with integrators
This global tech giant's relationships with Accenture's federal subsidiary and Deloitte help show how partnering strategies are evolving in the government market.
Contracts
Losing bidder protests $333M VA cybersecurity award
The company alleges that the Veterans Affairs Department unreasonably evaluated its bid and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff decision.
Contracts
OPM puts data at the center of human capital modernization
Contractors should focus on data standards as they develop solutions, a senior Office of Personnel Management official says.
Contracts