Contracts

Marines eye nature to help address climate change challenges

The Marine Corps is in search of a contractor to help analyze risks at its facilities and find ways to mitigate potential risks from natural disasters.

Contracts

Kearney's conflict-of-interest allegation falls flat

In the Government Accountability Office's eyes, Kearney did not show enough specifics to overturn the Army's choice of Guidehouse for an audit support services contract.

Contracts

The White House is developing a 10-year modernization plan to replace legacy IT

The National Cybersecurity Strategy tasks the Office of Management and Budget with creating a plan to eliminate all vulnerable legacy systems from federal agencies within a decade.

Companies

Jacobs gets second chance at $1B Special Operations Command contract

The command will now open discussions with all bidders, including the incumbent Jacobs that challenged its elimination.

Companies

ManTech loses effort to change evaluation criteria for FBI contract

The company's challenge to the price evaluation plan for a blanket purchase agreement competition gets rejected.

Contracts

CNF Technologies wins $135M Marine Corps computer support contract

This small business is tasked with carrying out research, development, test and evaluation work.

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NIST seeks industry support for chip funding applicant checks

A new solicitation details how the Commerce Department wants to ensure that those applying for semiconductor production funds are financially healthy.

Contracts

DHA to reconsider decisions surrounding $2.5B IT contract

The Defense Health Agency has changed its mind on discussions with bidders it rejected, which means more companies may get awards on the global IT services vehicle.

Contracts

Air Force awards $100M cyber, ISR advisory contract

Companies will compete for task orders and work with the Air Force to maintain business systems applications.

Companies

White House looks to shore up open source software security

The Office of the National Cyber Director wants software providers to "contribute back to the security of the open source software they depend upon."

Contracts

DIU chooses software company for $100M aircraft monitoring tech contract

Teleidoscope will work to apply its artificial intelligence-based system into video threads that watch for aircraft

Opinion

New CIO-SP4 case adds more delays

This latest lawsuit raises questions about how the agency running this $50 billion government-wide IT procurement interprets evaluation rules around different types of contracts.

Contracts

Space agencies are reforming acquisition to accelerate commercial tech integration

The nation’s space agencies are leveraging new procurement techniques to get their hands on critical emerging technologies and maintain U.S. competitiveness.

Contracts

SAIC's protest over $719M NASA competition falls short

The company wanted another shot at keeping this incumbent contract for engineering services that went to the other bidder.

Opinion

NATO creates $1.1B investment fund to target tech startups

The intergovernmental military alliance that connects Europe and North America also wants a big net to find and work with innovative companies, following a model already in use by the U.S. government.

Contracts

Amentum fights to keep lost DTRA contract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency chose someone else for the $84 million advisory services that Amentum picked up through its acquisition of PAE.

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Army wants augmented, virtual reality for its armored vehicle mechanics

The Army is developing this new technology contract for bolstering the training of its mechanics and other maintenance personnel.

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DHA faces legal challenges to how it conducted $2.5B procurement

Protesters are alleging the Defense Health Agency used "phantom award restrictions" to limit the number of companies that could qualify for this global IT services contract.

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DOD pushes cloud buyers to JWCC

The Defense Department's top tech official directed defense agencies to tap the multi-vendor Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract for new cloud acquisitions and is requiring all top-secret cloud buys across the Pentagon and military services to use the vehicle for top secret capabilities.

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HII's tech segment captures record $1.4B win

The leadership team at HII's Mission Technologies segment views this network operations award as helping it cast a wider net across its industry and customer relationship networks.