Opinion

Supply chain risk management is now a GovCon necessity

Requirements are growing for supply chain risk management and contractors need to embrace them not just as a business necessity but as a competitive differentiator.

  • By Jeff Clayton and Leo Alvarez

NSA told to rethink $10B cloud award to Amazon Web Services

Microsoft has scored a major victory over rival Amazon Web Services through a favorable bid protest decision that tells the National Security Agency to rethink a $10 billion cloud services award to AWS.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DOD CIO nominee wants tweaks to CMMC to help small businesses

The Biden administration's pick to be the Pentagon's tech chief wants to make it easier for small businesses to adhere to the Defense Department's cybersecurity standards and expand network optimization across the entire enterprise.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

PAE gets back into $850M DTRA competition after protest

PAE is back in the running for a seat on a $850 million professional services contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency after protesting its elimination from the competition.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Protesting pays off for this small business

A protest has paid off for a small business joint venture originally left off the list of winners for a $2.4 billion multiple-award contract to support the Army’s cyber range.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Going beyond just spectrum when talking 5G

Newer and faster phones on a specific band of spectrum are likely what first comes to mind when talking about the ongoing 5G revolution. But Viasat's government leader Craig Miller paints a much bigger picture in this interview with our Ross Wilkers.

Opinion

4 crucial considerations as your business grows beyond a small business designation

A veteran of the small business world offers sage advice on four crucial consideration to prepare for when your company leaves the confines of the small business tier.

  • By Walter Barnes III

Cybersecurity challenges drive adoption of zero trust

Executives at this Washington Technology Executive Perspectives roundtable described how the type of threats in today's cybersecurity landscape are well known, but the frequency of attacks and types of targets continue to grow.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Federal watchdog calls out transparency issues in pandemic spending

A committee established to ensure transparency around government spending related to COVID-19 found that federal agencies failed to provide clear reporting on how they were spending billions of dollars.

  • By Chris Riotta

AT&T wins second shot at $1.6B in FBI telecom work

Rather than fight AT&T's protest of $1.6 billion in network modernization task order awards, the FBI agreed to pull back the awards and re-evaluate proposals.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Senate funding bill zeros out TMF

It's a familiar story: The House looks to add to the Technology Modernization Fund while the Senate taps the brakes

  • By Adam Mazmanian and Chris Riotta

Introducing the 2021 WT Fast 50

We've released the 2021 Washington Technology Fast 50 that ranks the fastest growing small businesses in the government market and celebrates the depth, diversity and hard work of this group of companies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Who were 2021's top Industry Innovators?

We are happy to announce the winners of the 2021 Industry Innovator Award winners who's creativity and imagination drive better results for their government customers.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Biden's pick to lead DOD's weapons testing wants cyber assessments for commercial cloud systems

The Biden administration's pick to lead the Defense Department's operational testing, Nickolas Guertin, called the department's inability to conduct independent cyber assessments of commercial cloud systems "a severe limitation."

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Chip shortage raises key considerations for GovCon

Just about everything in the world runs on computer chips and the world keeps wanting more of these items including government contractors to make complex technology systems for customers. Here we try to understand what the global chip shortage means for the public sector ecosystem.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Former HHS CIO shares COVID-19 lessons learned

Perryn Ashmore saw the good and the bad as the Health and Human Services Department's chief information officer during the pandemic's height. Here is some of what he learned and how the IT industry can carry those lessons forward.

  • By Nick Wakeman

BAE wins $131M Navy C5ISR contract

BAE Systems will support C5ISR systems for the Navy under a $131.1 million contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

The growing importance of GWACs and the challenges they face

One of the government's most popular methods for buying emerging technologies and critical IT services faces significant challenges in an ever-changing marketplace

  • By Chris Riotta

General Dynamics challenges rival's $2.7B cloud migration win

Peraton is facing a challenge to its win of a $2.7 billion Homeland Security cloud migration contract from rival bidder and fellow incumbent General Dynamics IT.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Deloitte protest leads to seat on $250M Navy program

Deloitte Consulting’s protest of a $250 million Navy contract to modernize management of its weapons and ordinance supply chain has paid off as the company is now on that program.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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