INSIDER EXCLUSIVE: Top execs share their winning strategies for 2021
WT Insider members get exclusive access to our Power Breakfast events. Our latest event focused on winning strategies for 2021 and leading executives shared their priorities and challenges for the year ahead.
DHS flips award, CACI fights back
After a year of protests and sticking with CACI International, the Homeland Security Department goes the other direction in awarding an engineering and IT contract to ManTech. Now CACI is the one to protest.
Can the Army justify a 10-year sole-source contract? Maybe.
Accenture is pushing back on the Army's plan to award without competition what could be a $500 million contract for continued development of a pay and personnel system.
Navy to stand up DevSecOps task force
The Navy will field a task force in March that will deliver recommendations that will lay the ground work for the Navy's enterprise-wide roadmap for implementing DevSecOps.
Army CIO details plan to rein in $2B in bloated IT spending
Army CIO Ray Iyer is shaping a new Army Enterprise Digital Strategy the he will use to change the organization's culture and rein in $2 billion of bloated IT spending.
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PROJECT 38: Inside Telos' path to its IPO and what's next
For this episode of Project 38, Telos CEO John Wood takes Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers inside the five-decade-old firm’s initial public offering and why that path makes sense for them.
Biden's equity review will likely touch small business contracts
President Biden has ordered a review of barriers seen as stopping underserved communities from participating in government programs including contracts.
Biden creates governmentwide 'equity agenda'
The OMB director and the head of the Domestic Policy Council will play key roles in implementing the objectives of a new executive order, which eliminates a Trump-era purge of diversity training materials and includes the creation of a new data working group .
White House names GSA senior leaders
The Biden-Harris administration tapped former officials to senior slots at the General Services Administration, but the nomination of an administrator is still to come.
Northrop wins $3.6B Air Force battlefield comms contract
Northrop Grumman has won a $3.6 billion Air Force contract to build out the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system to improve the warfighter's situational awareness.
Verizon protests lost Coast Guard task order
Verizon's protest of a task order that went to AT&T is just the latest protest involving the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle and indicates competition is alive and well for work through that next-gen telecommunications vehicle.
New Senate Armed Services chair takes his seat
With Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) as the new chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrats will set the tone on defense policy and budgets.
The Biden administration and GovCon's leadership opportunity
As the Biden administration takes shape, the new president has called for unity and government contracting firms and the executives that lead them have an opportunity to set a positive example for both industry and country.
GSA drops most drones from multiple award schedules
To crack down on security risks from unmanned aerial systems, the General Services Administration said its multiple awards schedules will only offer small drones approved by the Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue sUAS Program.
ASRC retains $212M NASA research contract
ASRC Federal keeps a $212 million NASA contract to support research efforts across multiple directorates.
Biden floats $9B boost to tech modernization fund
The incoming Biden-Harris administration announced a $1.9 trillion "rescue" package to help Americans whose incomes have taken a hit from the pandemic, which includes a major uptick in technology spending to secure government systems and spur modernization.
Deadline fast approaching for $3.4B DHS cloud contract
The Homeland Security Department has unveiled the final solicitation for its $3.4 billion cloud migration contract and deadline number one is just days away.
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