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Space Force picks 15 for $981M test, evaluation support contract
This contract focuses on Space Force’s efforts to provide operators an environment of different types of ranges ranges for their test and training work.
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Sole-source awards are down, but their share of the pie is not
An analysis of GovTribe data finds non-competitive contract awards are down 20% through July, but they claimed a bigger slice of all federal contracts.
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Leidos books $717M ISR support award with Air Combat Command
The five-year task order extends a partnership that started in 2019, with Leidos personnel embedded at more than 35 locations worldwide.
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DISA launches market research for combatant command migration
The Defense Information Systems Agency's sources sought notice addresses a protest by General Dynamics IT without naming the company nor the protest.
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A playbook for thriving with OneGov and the FAR Overhaul
Contractors who cling to labor hours and PowerPoint pitches will almost certainly lose out. But the government’s requirements process still looks like the biggest bottleneck to change.
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GSA strikes new OneGov deal with CORAS
“This partnership with CORAS expands the range of AI-enabled capabilities available to agencies as they evaluate solutions that support mission and operational requirements,” according to Federal Acquisition Service acting Commissioner Laura Stanton.
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General Dynamics IT protest sinks DISA’s plan to expand Enclave
The Defense Information Systems Agency agrees to conduct market research and redo its acquisition strategy after GDIT challenged plans to expand the IT services contract’s scope.
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Beyond the platform: What the unmanned systems boom means for the GovCon market
We explore how Ukraine and Iran are rewriting the rules and reshaping opportunities at our Aug. 14 Power Breakfast.
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Navy preps recompete for American Systems software engineering contract
The service branch wants to use a cost-plus structure and sees fixed-price as potentially being too expensive.
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Pentagon awards Oracle up to $7B in software consolidation deal
The agreement merges Oracle's product and licensing services into one contract, which the Defense Department estimates will result in at least $441 million in savings.
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VA awards Salesforce $1.6B contract for veteran care and services
The contract adds to existing Salesforce deployments for suicide prevention, health care communications and more.
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Selective Service System seeks software to aid the draft
If the military draft were to ever come back, this software would be used to quickly evaluate staffing and resource requirements.
Opinion
The Army changed how it buys but most contractors haven’t changed how they sell
Compressed acquisition timelines are rewarding contractors who invest in customer intelligence months before an opportunity appears. Not the ones who mobilize after it lands, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
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Argonne National Laboratory seeks help, resources for AI supercomputing center
The lab is casting its net far and wide for ideas on how to build, operate and finance the future National Genesis Mission Supercomputing Center of Innovation.
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Palantir invokes its favorite law again — this time against DIA's ASTRA solicitation
The company argues a task order for custom development violates the same commercial acquisition mandate that helped it break into the Army's DCGS battlefield intelligence program.
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Air Force picks 3 for $1.9B in aerospace program support work
The scope of work covers research, development, and test-and-evaluation activities.
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Transportation looks to AI to accelerate its modernization initiatives
Steven Bradbury, the agency’s deputy secretary, said AI has helped Transportation slash its software production timeline from 18 months down to 18 weeks.
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DCSA folds three contracts into a single set-aside
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is folding a $500 million task order held by Science Applications International Corp. into the new competition.
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IARPA launches new acquisition marketplace
The intelligence community's lead research arm is looking to help agencies more rapidly procure innovative products from industry.
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