Boeing's Insitu subsidiary pays $25M to settle False Claims charges

An unmanned aerial vehicle business of Boeing has paid the government $25 million to settle charges that it passed off used parts as new ones in contracts with the Navy and Special Operations Command.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DOD does away with diversity training modification for contractors

The Pentagon eliminated a class deviation that implemented the president's executive order purging diversity training across federal grants and contracts.

  • By Natalie Alms

GovCon political action committees join others in pausing contributions

Leidos, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies are among companies who are pausing contributions by their political action committees in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DISA taking over DOD cloud implementation

The Defense Department's cloud office is moving to the Defense Information Systems Agency later this month in a move that consolidates DOD's cloud strategy.

  • By Lauren C. Williams
Opinion

Numbers don't lie: Feds on LinkedIn are fertile territory

Mark Amtower's annual census of federal employees on the LinkedIn platform shows every agency represented and that the business platform is a critical and powerful tool for enriching your relationships with customers.

  • By Mark Amtower

IBM argues corrective action creates problems in $786M Army ERP solicitation

IBM is renewing its protest over a $786.7 million Army enterprise resource planning support contract and zeroing in on changes to the solicitation.

  • By Nick Wakeman

John Garing, former Air Force and DISA exec, dies at 78

John Garing has died at 78, but leaves behind a legacy as a mentor to the people around him and a leader always looking for new and better ways to improve government.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SpaceX, L3Harris chosen again for huge satellite contract

The Space Development Agency paused to rethink its awards to SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies, but has reaffirmed its choice of those companies to build the first set of satellites to track hypersonic weapons.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How 2020 has shaped 2021 opportunities

We can finally turn the page to 2021 but any look to the future requires some looking back at 2020. In this episode of Project 38, PM Consulting Group’s founder Walter Barnes gives Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers the ground-floor perspective on both what drove the federal market in 2020 and factors to shape it in 2021.

CACI pushes back after losing contract to support relocation program

CACI International has lodged a protest with the Government Accountability Office after rival bidder Telos won a $35.9 million contract to support a massive relocation program in South Korea.

  • By Nick Wakeman

House makes changes to FedRAMP

The House this week passed a bill aimed at standardizing the processes federal agencies use to onboard cloud computing technologies.

  • By Justin Katz

Industry groups, execs put focus on democracy in wake of Capitol building riot

In the aftermath of the Capitol building riot, industry associations and company executives have urged calm while also extolling the virtues of democracy.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Booz Allen loses ICE contract after not fully detailing exit strategy

Booz Allen Hamilton loses this Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract on not adequately explaining how it would transition out of the program in the event of a future recompete loss.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DARPA's tech 2021 priorities include space, sensors, human systems

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released its 2021 priorities for two of its main small business programs and on the list are space, sensors, human systems and IT.

  • By Nick Wakeman

What you need to know about the Polaris draft solicitation

The much-anticipated Polaris IT services vehicle for small businesses now has a draft solicitation out for industry to read through and make comments on.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Judge halts enforcement of diversity training crackdown on contractors

A nationwide injunction blocks sections of the order that apply to contractors and grant recipients, including a hotline created for employees to report training materials.

  • By Natalie Alms

Protest holds up pool awards for GSA human capital support vehicle

GSA is moving forward with awards across two pools of its $5.75 billion human capital and training vehicle, but all of the second pool is on hold while a protest in the federal courts is resolved.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Deadline extended for Federal 100 nominations!

FCW has extended the deadline for Federal 100 nominations until Friday, Jan. 15. Now is your opportunity to recognize your customers and even your employees, who have done something extraordinary in the past year.

  • By Troy K. Schneider

The 'ifs' to ponder for 2021

Congratulations on getting to the end of 2020 however you got there. Now that we've closed the book on 2020, how about walking through and pondering some of the "if" scenarios and questions that hover over the 2021 government market?

  • By Ross Wilkers

Task order protests continue steady rise

The number of protests that involve task orders have grown steadily over the last 10 years, even as the overall number of protests have declined.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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