VA floats idea for IDIQ contract for health care support

The Veterans Health Administration is considering whether to hold an industry day for a new contract to improve the health care system. Would you attend?

IRS asking for $2.7B to modernize IT

The IRS chief wants to fix the agency's long-standing IT problems through a multi-billion dollar, six-year program.

Is JEDI destined to be just another contract?

With delays continuing and the rest of the market rapidly adopting commercial cloud, JEDI may not be the watershed contract we all thought it could be when it started.

How LMI's transformation stays true to its roots

LMI is in the midst of a transformation to closer align with how its customers want to apply technology to their mission. But CEO David Zolet sees that shift as keeping to the nonprofit's core mission.

Oracle takes a hit but JEDI fight not over yet

The Defense Department says conflict of interest allegations had no adverse impact on the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract but the fight is far from over.

DOD developing contract to help manage JEDI cloud

A new sources sought notice indicates that the Defense Department's Cloud Computing Program Office is looking for industry support to help manage the massive JEDI cloud computing contract.

Get ready for a two-year deluge of large IT contract awards

The much-touted "JEDI" cloud contract certainly looms over the market but is far from the only the large enterprise IT opportunity analysts are watching closely.

Defense budget sets stage for innovation, more competition

The Pentagon's ask for more dollars highlights its emphasis on modernization and innovation. That means defense primes should expect to be kept on their toes by integrators and services companies who have scaled up through M&A to pursue those opportunities.

KBR sees space as growth market, even with many details TBD

The government is still organizing the management of its space programs and assets, but for companies such as KBR the time to strike is now as growth opportunities emerge.

Inside PAE's unmanned aircraft strategy

PAE might be best-known for logistics and facility management work worldwide, but it's also been building an unmanned aircraft strategy to complement its core.

Navy moves forward with DCGS-N intell gathering program

The Navy is moving forward with the next version of its intelligence gathering Distributed Common Ground System and is inviting industry to meet with its technical team.

Air Force wants software to model gas, oil refineries

The Air Force is looking for a commercial software solution to help better model gas and oil refinery processes to help the Joint Warfare Analysis Center meet its mission.

Census funding gets Senate scrutiny

Senators are raising concerns about the plans for funding the tech heavy 2020 Census.

Market survey offers insights on intell community's massive cloud strategy

The CIA and the rest of the intelligence community are moving on a big commercial cloud contract and a new survey offers insights on what they are looking for.

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How a center of excellence can fuel cloud success

As agencies move to the cloud, success can depend on having a center of excellence to capture and gather lessons learned.

JEDI investigations cause more delays

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims was to hear arguments this Thursday involving Oracle's lawsuit challenging the massive JEDI cloud computing contract. But ongoing investigations have caused the hearing to be canceled.

Navy, Marine Corps opt in to FirstNet

The Navy and Marine Corps sign up to use the FirstNet nationwide public safety communications network AT&T is building for first responders in the U.S.

Intelligence Community planning huge cloud contract

The intelligence community is planning a massive cloud initiative that could be worth tens of billions of dollars and involve multiple contracts with commercial cloud providers.

Lockheed-Raytheon team to pursue air traffic control consolidation program

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will jointly pursue a contract to consolidate and modernize the nationwide network of surveillance and air traffic control radar systems.

Is the Coast Guard pushing a sole-source contract too far?

SES Government Solutions is protesting the Coast Guard's decision to not compete a contract for commercial satellite services and instead sole-source the work to a competitor.