Accenture, small firm forge SEWP partnership

Accenture Federal Services has formed a partnership with a HUBZone small business to sell its security solutions through the NASA SEWP vehicle.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DISA touts SETI for small business contracts

DISA is pushing the $7.5 billion Systems Engineering, Technology and Innovation vehicle as a tool to drive more opportunities to small businesses.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Navy looks to small business for surface ship testing

Tekla Research has been picked for a $27 million contract to test combat and other systems onboard Navy surface vessels.

  • By Nick Wakeman

IBM wins sole-source contract to support ACE disaster recovery

IBM will continue to provide disaster recovery services to the Automated Commercial Environment after being awarded a sole-source contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

EPA plans consolidation of several mission support contracts

EPA has begun work to create a nine-year contract that consolidates several existing contracts to support the agency's environmental mission.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Opinion

Military offers lessons as it adapts to COVID operations

The Covid-19 pandemic is exposing organizations across all industries to external forces that they could not have predicted and the global defense industry is no exception. For many the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, with some organizations claiming to have completed years’ worth of transformations in a matter of weeks. Matt Medley, senior product manager, IFS, explains.

  • By Matt Medley
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How COVID drives cultural change

The COVID-19 crisis has forced agencies and companies to field a dispersed workforce that relies on technology to stay productive and connected. In this episode of Project 38, Gary Hix of Hitachi Vantara Federal discusses with WT Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers how many of those changes could be permanent.

Labor under fire for shirking small business bidders

The Labor Department has drawn the ire of small businesses after it tried to run parallel solicitations for the same work, then picked the single large business bidder over multiple small business proposals.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Tech groups slam Trump's diversity training executive order

The pushback comes as the Labor Department tries to explain what the memo does and does not allow with regard to diversity training.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Perspecta tapped to help DHA take patient data to the cloud

Perspecta has been tapped for a one-year contract to configure its digital health platform for helping the Defense Health Agency modernize and migrate patient data to a cloud computing environment.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Paradyme opens lab to build innovation culture

Paradyme Management has created a research arm to create a culture built around innovation.

  • By Nick Wakeman

IBM to spin off managed infrastructure business

IBM plans to split into two companies by the end of 2021. Big Blue will remain focused on hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence solutions, while the spinoff will take the managed infrastructure work.

  • By Nick Wakeman

OFPP focusing on removing procurement barriers

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy wants agencies to use the procurement flexibility they have to remove barriers that slow down procurements, says OFPP leader.

  • By Mark Rockwell

DOD project pushes RPA to the next level

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is working with a pair of vendors to develop machine learning models that can go beyond the capabilities of robotic process automation and make decisions about financial transactions.

  • By GCN Staff

Contract changes needed to improve cybersecurity, Space Force leader says

Lt. Gen. John Thompson, a leader of U.S. Space Force, says cybersecurity is increasingly integral to space missions and infrastructure contracts need to change to keep up.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

PROJECT 38: Inside NCI's AI-driven growth strategy

NCI Information Systems CEO Paul Dillahay talks with Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman about headwinds the company has faced and how a set of artificial intelligence solutions are now driving growth.

Army developing contract for enterprise program management system

The Army begins the development of a contract for an enterprise-wide project and program management system.

  • By Nick Wakeman

NASA reports another stellar SEWP year

NASA reported a strong year of growth for its SEWP vehicle with sales jumping nearly 40 percent from fiscal year 2019 to 2020.

  • By Nick Wakeman

INSIDER EXCLUSIVE: Insights on NASA procurement plans

Washington Technology Insiders get exclusive access to our recent WT Power Breakfast exploring procurement trends at NASA.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Court fight upends $4B DHS software buy

A push to buy a modernized DHS financial management system is being held up by another court battle, one that threatens to again upend a project that already suffers from a long history of failure.

  • By Derek B. Johnson
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