Contracts

How the Army is battle-testing cloud computing

How the service plans to use cloud computing — from boardrooms to the battlefield

Contracts

GSA's new thinking for evaluating Polaris bids

After collecting industry feedback, the General Services Administration will give a new proposal due date and open the bid submission portal.

Opinion

Best-in-class, or worst-in-class?

Given the recurring problems with large multiple-award contract vehicles, the government needs to reevaluate how it bundles the purchasing of IT products and services.

Contracts

US, allied cybersecurity agencies, advise reviewing contracts with tech vendors

A joint advisory from CISA, domestic partners and counterpart agencies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warns of a heightened threat to managed service providers and their customers.

Contracts

Forcepoint wins DISA user monitoring contract

Analysts and operators will use the solution to detect events and individuals that present risk to networks.

Companies

GDIT adds EPA win to supercomputer portfolio

General Dynamics IT will support efforts around atmospheric modeling, fluid dynamics and bioinformatics for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Contracts

Federal agencies likely to get new cybersecurity guidance ‘in coming weeks’

New top-level guidance—and requirements—are coming for managing software security risk at federal agencies

Contracts

NASA chief calls out the 'plague' of cost-plus contracts

The space agency is hoping to increasingly use competitions among top vendors and fixed-price contracts as a new way of conducting business--and cutting steep costs for major projects.

Contracts

IRS seeks to shift from manual mail processes

The tax collection agency wants to adopt more digital methods for sorting 100 million pieces of mail each year.

Contracts

Microsoft, DoD sign research and development pact

The company may have the chance to negotiate exclusive intellectual property rights—with an exception for the government—to innovations emerging from the collaboration.

Contracts

Another protest holds up $50B NIH contract

At least one bidder pursuing the CIO-SP4 contract for health and biomedical IT solutions is still confused about how past experience will be considered.

Contracts

16 capture spots on $1B Army network contract

Winners will vie for task orders to support the Army's portion of the Defense Department's global electronic information setup.

Contracts

NASA unveils $700M engineering solicitation

Proposals are due at the end of May for the single-award contract.

Contracts

Parsons get second chance at $320M Air Force cloud competition

What Parsons said in a protest has led the Air Force to take another look at proposals for an application migration award.

Contracts

NSA re-awards secret $10 billion contract to Amazon

Amazon Web Services beat out Microsoft for the contract after a bid protest battle.

Contracts

GSA reworking $15B Polaris solicitation

That promise from the General Services Administration led to a dismissed protest, but how extensive the changes are remains to be seen.

Contracts

NGA chooses 5 for $500M services contract

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is being cryptic about the actual work under a $500 million multiple-award contract.

Contracts

Five win seats on $1B Navy audit support contract

The Navy uses this program to improve the way it prepares for having its finances looked over.

Contracts

GSA plans to publish zero trust playbooks

The General Services Administration is focusing on how to take the concept of zero trust into the implementation phase in a series of new playbooks set for release in the coming months, according to a senior IT official.