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DOD excels at prototyping. Getting to production is another story.

Acquisition reform may be the bridge, but the paths from prototype to funded program remains unclear.

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Army unveils first sketch of commercial tech contract for test, evaluation

Army officials are currently looking at separate product and services pools for this multiple-award vehicle.

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Navy preps science-and-tech strategy built for speed and focus

Two service leaders in technology development spoke at the Defense One Tech Summit.

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DISA starts to craft $850M Army-focused cyber recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to hear from companies with experience in large-scale cyber initiatives and Zero Trust architectures.

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Empower AI books $255M DISA enterprise IT recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency is emphasizing targeted automation for the next cycle of this progra.

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DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS

The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.

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SBA proposes opening 8(a) program to white-owned businesses

The Small Business Administration wants to eliminate race-based eligibility presumptions and create a new social disadvantage test for applicants.

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How DHA plans to end Leidos’ run as the military's health record integrator

The Defense Health Agency intends to contract directly with Oracle Health and four other vendors behind the MHS Genesis ecosystem. DHA is also taking on the integration work itself.

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Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract

The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management.

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Oracle wins $396M federal HR systems overhaul contract

The Office of Personnel Management is using the contract to consolidate more than 100 systems into a single platform covering 2 million federal employees.

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GSA gets moving on second batch of Polaris SDVOSB awards

Pending size challenges, this group of 17 companies would join the batch of 27 companies that have been designated official winners.

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NIH pulls the plug on its government-wide contracts

End dates for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-CS contracts mark the official demise of a program that never recovered from the CIO-SP4 debacle.

Companies

DHA plans shift in approach for electronic health record follow-on

The Defense Health Agency has outlined its paths for both a cloud migration effort and working with more than one company for the EHR ecosystem.

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CISA sketches out timeline for incident response, threat hunting contract

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is seeking an industry partner to help deploy, develop and maintain technologies used by its threat hunting office.

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VA embarks on its search for enterprise cloud broker

This contract would designate a company as the Veterans Affairs Department's primary assistant in acquiring cloud computing capabilities from the hyperscalers and software tool makers.

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State Department seeks small businesses for LEO satellite terminals

The future contract would support off-grid operations for U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide through the Remote Expeditionary Area Communications Hub program.

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KBR wins $8B Antarctica research recompete

KBR's government services unit beats out three other bids as it prepares to go it alone as an independent public company.

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VA seeks contractor to tackle 10 years of ad-hoc automation

The Veterans Affairs Department is looking to acquire a commercial platform and professional services to standardize and govern infrastructure automation across its hybrid IT environment.

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Army seeks contractor support for war planning, medical logistics

The Army Material Command is in the market research phase of a contract that could run for five years.

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OPM moves one step closer to HR system overhaul for 2 million federal workers

With protests cleared, the Office of Personnel Management can now award a 10-year contract for a new government-wide human capital platform.