IBM wins $850M Navy ERP order

IBM wins a giant piece of the Navy's broader effort to improve financial controls and performance, in part by adopting a consolidated enterprise resource planning setup.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Beta.Sam.gov still a work in progress

Beta.Sam.gov has a new design as it prepares to absorb Sam.gov and become a single government procurement portal. The changes add some needed features, but some lingering frustrations remain.

  • By Nick Wakeman

The questions raised by protests against SpaceX's lunar lander win

Blue Origin and Dynetics file protests over SpaceX's NASA lunar lander win and the challenges will raise questions about how price, competition and technical solutions being offered all play a role in making major contract awards.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Deloitte wins second shot at HUD cyber contract

Deloitte gets another shot at a cybersecurity contract with the Housing and Urban Development Department after a competitor used the wrong labor categories.

  • By Nick Wakeman

The challenges and opportunities of digital transformation

Washington Technology gathered a group of leading industry executives to share how they view digital transformation and the challenges and opportunities it presents for government contractors.

  • By Nick Wakeman

SAIC's latest tuck-in acquisition eyes AI skills

SAIC has acquired a small Seattle firm that solves a difficult problem in artificial intelligence -- how to organize structured and unstructured data from multiple sources based on user attributes and permissions.

  • By Nick Wakeman

DHA unveils final solicitation for $1.4B workforce contract

The final solicitation is out for the Defense Health Agency's $1.4 billion Workforce 3.0 contract for acquiring new training and technical skills to drive innovation across the military's health care infrastructure.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Why Biden's climate initiatives must be tracked

Many of President Biden's climate change initiatives will have an indirect impact on contractors that could still be significant.

  • By Nick Wakeman

What drove Maximus toward its largest-ever acquisition

Maximus is paying a company-record $1.4 billion to acquire Veterans Evaluation Services and continue transforming the business process outsourcing line of work.

  • By Nick Wakeman

GAO rejects arguments that evaluations were flawed

A group of protesters could not convince that evaluations for the Veterans Affairs Department's T4NG onramp were flawed.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Podcasts

Project 38 podcast marks 100 episodes

Since its launch in 2018, Washington Technology's Project 38 podcast has produced over 100 episodes and hosted a wide range of executives and other market experts to explore the state of the market and the future of government contracting

  • By Nick Wakeman

What the IT market can learn from SpaceX's NASA win

SpaceX has surprised the aerospace market by winning the $2.9 billion NASA contract to take human's back to the moon but the lessons from that victory might extend across the entire government market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Last draft out for $1.4B DHA workforce contract

The Defense Health Agency has released one last draft solicitation for its $1.4 billion Workforce 3.0 contract with a final version due within days.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Protests drive HHS to redo cloud contract

The Health and Human Services Department will rework a cloud solicitation following complaints that the terms would restrict competition.

  • By Nick Wakeman

MetTel to modernize National Archives networks

MetTel has captured a $65 million EIS task order to replace the National Archives' legacy hub-and-spoke network architecture with a software-defined wide area network.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Should GovCon firms join the fight against voting restrictions?

Several companies with strong ties to the federal market have joined the Black Economic Alliance's fight against state efforts to put more restrictions on voting.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Faced with complaints, Army pulls HR app solicitation

After facing complaints from bidders including the incumbent, the Army has decided to rework the solicitation for a $161 million human resources application development contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Biden's budget as the ultimate conversation starter

The first Biden administration budget may look nothing like what is ultimately passed, but the document provides a great starting point for having meaningful discussions with your customers.

  • By Nick Wakeman

How this DARPA research effort will try to stop the next pandemic

FLIR Systems is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop fabrics with embedded capabilities to battle exposure to chemical and biological threats, including future pandemic viruses.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Family PE firm acquires another GovCon company

McNally Capital has acquired Orbis Operations in another deal that to build the private equity investor's federal market portfolio.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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