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CISA tees up cyber hygiene recompete
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is setting up what it calls a “unified, scalable, and modernized mission support vehicle."
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Army starts market research for training product support contract
The Army is eyeing this contract as part of efforts to continue the evolution of its Live Training Transformation product line.
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CMMC's Phase 2 suspension locked in with binding regulation
A new class deviation moves the pause on third-party assessments for this security standard from policy to an enforceable rule.
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NASA starts to craft engineering, tech services recompete
The space agency is aptly calling this new contract ORBIT and using industry feedback to structure the competition.
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SSA launches IT services contract recompete
Self-service and artificial intelligence technologies are a priority area for the Social Security Administration in this iteration of the contract that counts CGI Federal, Leidos and Peraton as primes.
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Pentagon unveils first of two solicitations for its next big cloud contract
The hyperscalers can now start working on proposals for their portion of the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability recompete, while a second contract is in-the-works to cover everything else.
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DHS gives Anduril a second shot at counter-drone contract track
The Homeland Security Department agrees to re-evaluate Anduril’s bid for the $1.5 billion vehicle's product portion.
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Former CISA employee pleads guilty to defrauding government with secret contractor jobs
Prosecutors say Richeline Fung secretly held contractor jobs tied to six agencies and claimed up to 33-hour workdays while working full time for the federal cyber agency.
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Three tribally owned firms land $400M Air Force Pacific advisory deal
Cherokee Nation Government Solutions, SSE BB&E JV and KIRA Services will compete for task orders spanning Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Alaska and Wake Island through 2031.
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When the government blackballs your sub, CICA is no help
A dismissed protest shows how little recourse subs have when an agency knocks them out of a teaming agreement.
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Industry offers government a playbook for handling OneGov expirations
Some deals offering federal agencies significantly discounted access to software are set to expire at the end of the month.
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DISA sends mixed signals on combatant command network migration
After a protest, two RFIs, and a one-day comment window, the path forward is still unclear.
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SBA’s size standard rewrite draws angry, frustrated comments
Critics say the rule would turn the small business program into a marketplace dominated by the biggest players.
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Army picks Dragonfly payload system for spectrum sensing
Research Innovations will provide and maintain the ruggedized sensors under a nearly $100 million, five-year contract.
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Air Force eyes overhaul of PLM program as Siemens contract nears 2029 end
An RFI seeking a modernized approach to how it updates and deploys the software it uses to manage data across its weapons systems.
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Judge rules Anthropic supply chain risk designation was ‘illegal and baseless’
A Northern California judge found that the AI company’s products did not represent a meaningful threat to national security, making the Pentagon’s designation “unlawful retaliation.”
Opinion
When ‘small’ gets bigger, who gets left behind?
SBA’s proposed size-standard overhaul might help growing firm but it raises hard questions about competition, the mid-tier, and how to define small, writes Kristina Messner, CEO of Messner Media Group.
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Contractor may have used AI to falsify payment dispute financial documents, appeals board finds
A legal expert told Nextgov/FCW the possibility underscores how the federal government is “fully unprepared for how bad” AI-driven procurement fraud is going to get.
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Marines want to move Camp Lejeune armory off paper and into the web
A new solicitation for a SDVOSB contract also leans on the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul deviation instead of the standard FAR.
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