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Army awards 12 seats on $450M modernization vehicle
Awardees will work on enabling and accelerating the branch's idea of overmatch for gaining overwhelming advantages over adversaries.
Opinion
Which path will, and should, small business contracting follow?
Another new initiative to increase small business participation in federal contracting brings up the disconnect between the amounts of money and companies in the system. It's time to ask whether growing both of those numbers is possible.
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NGA chooses 5 for $947M professional services vehicle
The contract called "Clover" is for acquisition and financial management support.
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Army awards 29 spots on $900M info management contract
This fourth iteration of the so-called "IMCS" contract continues support for the Army's Network Enterprise Command that operates and defends computer networks.
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FDA announces contract for automation in drug performance analyses
The Food and Drug Administration is asking for proposals for automated devices that can provide high-definition imaging and critical analyses of drug performance as the agency works to integrate more AI.
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Debt defaults are not shutdowns, but both raise money fears
Question number one that companies in the government market want answered is how payments for their work on contracts will, or will not, happen in a debt default situation. No one knows for sure.
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DHS' cyber agency seeks small biz support for strategic planning
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has set a date to explain its changes to a management consulting services contract.
Opinion
CIO-SP4 protests move toward final decision
No action appears likely to resolve the 130-plus protests involving this $50 billion IT vehicle, which indicates the Government Accountability Office will decide on the contract's next steps.
Opinion
Judge reverses course, denies firm's standing to protest
Whether a subcontractor can force its way onto a team because it has a commercial product remains an unanswered question.
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Booz Allen touts $919M award for 'Soldier-as-a-System'
The goal is to further advance technologies for this concept that includes items worn, carried, or used by soldiers.
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VA lacks goals to assess satisfaction with new EHR, watchdog finds
The report found the absence of such goals has limited the Veterans Affairs Department's ability to measure user satisfaction with the new electronic health record system.
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Blue Origin wins $3.4B shot to build lunar lander
The company won the competition to build a second lander for NASA that will ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program.
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NIST builds infrastructure for CHIPS loan program
The agency wants help to create financial models and analyzing capital markets as it manages billions in loans and grants to restore the U.S. semiconductor industry.
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IRS adds more primes to resolve protests
The IRS faced a pair of protests but to move forward with a set of BPAs for modernization services, the agency added the protesters to the contract.
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Space Force considering contractor-owned satellite management system
Ownership and operations of the systems managing a pair of satellites would be turned over to a contractor, according to a new sources sought notice
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Leidos, Booz Allen keep pushing for $1.3B cloud contract
The Treasury Department's TCloud blanket purchase agreement was won by SAIC, but the two challengers claim the evaluation was improper.
Contracts
VA prepares next version of its cybersecurity support contract
The contract supports the VA Cybersecurity Operations Center, which is charged with monitoring and responding to threats across the VA enterprise.
Opinion
The need for clarity as GovCon faces a ‘Black Swan’ moment
Shutdowns and stopgap funding measures are familiar territory for government contractors, but a potential debt default is not. It's time to understand what that might mean.
Contracts
What's going on with DHS' enterprise cloud plan?
The Department of Homeland Security teased its plan for a 10-year enterprise cloud contract in the fall and then went relatively quiet. Based on previous cloud procurements, that could be a good thing.
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