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Navy preps recompete for American Systems software engineering contract
The service branch wants to use a cost-plus structure and sees fixed-price as potentially being too expensive.
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Pentagon awards Oracle up to $7B in software consolidation deal
The agreement merges Oracle's product and licensing services into one contract, which the Defense Department estimates will result in at least $441 million in savings.
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VA awards Salesforce $1.6B contract for veteran care and services
The contract adds to existing Salesforce deployments for suicide prevention, health care communications and more.
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Selective Service System seeks software to aid the draft
If the military draft were to ever come back, this software would be used to quickly evaluate staffing and resource requirements.
Opinion
The Army changed how it buys but most contractors haven’t changed how they sell
Compressed acquisition timelines are rewarding contractors who invest in customer intelligence months before an opportunity appears. Not the ones who mobilize after it lands, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
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Argonne National Laboratory seeks help, resources for AI supercomputing center
The lab is casting its net far and wide for ideas on how to build, operate and finance the future National Genesis Mission Supercomputing Center of Innovation.
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Palantir invokes its favorite law again — this time against DIA's ASTRA solicitation
The company argues a task order for custom development violates the same commercial acquisition mandate that helped it break into the Army's DCGS battlefield intelligence program.
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Air Force picks 3 for $1.9B in aerospace program support work
The scope of work covers research, development, and test-and-evaluation activities.
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Transportation looks to AI to accelerate its modernization initiatives
Steven Bradbury, the agency’s deputy secretary, said AI has helped Transportation slash its software production timeline from 18 months down to 18 weeks.
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DCSA folds three contracts into a single set-aside
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is folding a $500 million task order held by Science Applications International Corp. into the new competition.
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IARPA launches new acquisition marketplace
The intelligence community's lead research arm is looking to help agencies more rapidly procure innovative products from industry.
Opinion
Why winning is keeping GovCon execs up at night
The edge gots to firms that excel at navigating the new regulatory landscape. Here’s eight keys to building your advantage, writes Chris Crowder of Unanet.
Companies
GSA is eyeing OneGov savings beyond software and tech, official says
GSA Deputy Administrator Mike Lynch noted that many of the roughly two dozen firms participating in the OneGov initiative “offer multiple products to federal government,” meaning that the strategy can ultimately lead to a broader range of cost savings.
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Lockheed wins $10.5B Special Operations logistics recompete
Special Operations Command uses this contract to help maintain its program support and enterprise management functions.
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CMMC suspension caught industry off guard, but the reasons did not
The Pentagon's move to pause the cybersecurity program was a surprise, but the cost and burden concerns behind it have been known for years.
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Protest count hits 10 for Army’s $50B MAPS vehicle
Companies continue to bring up their issues with the solicitation, imperiling the Army’s planned September awards.
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GSA’s draft AI procurement rule has improved but needs further reforms, contractors say
Contractors have until Aug. 3 to give GSA feedback on a proposed overhaul to large language model procurements.
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US Geological Survey seeks enhanced AI function to watch for earthquakes
The U.S. Geological Survey has started its search for what is out there amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning tools.
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Veterans Affairs starts search for cloud-based litigation review platform
The Veterans Affairs Department currently works with systems that do not share a common collection of facts, resulting in duplications of records and other issues.
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