SBA reopens size standard comment period, slashes estimates of its impacts
SBA reopens size standard comment period, slashes estimates of its impacts
Contracts
Booz Allen expands research work with $85M AFRL design contract
The 10-year award focuses on integrated design of aircraft, propulsion and power systems.
Contracts
Veterans Affairs previews timeline for enterprise AI services competition
A final solicitation for the potential three-year contract is just around the corner and will task the winner with rolling out artificial intelligence capabilities to 540,000 users.
Contracts
GAO gives Battelle narrow reopening to win $8B Antarctica contract
The Government Accountability Office rejected most of the challenges in Battelle's protest, but found the National Science Foundation improperly credited KBR with an affiliate's past performance record.
Sponsor Content
Nothing Left Hanging: Digital Hangar turns video imagery and documents into decisions. Before the moment passes.
Turn multimodal data overload into actionable, auditable insights with agentic AI designed to accelerate mission-critical decision-making.
Contracts
DHS exploring new biosurveillance capabilities as biological threats evolve, officials say
DHS Science and Technology Directorate officials said emerging technologies are forcing the agency to rethink how it detects biological agents.
Companies
B&A acquires secure communication tech developer
Intelligent Waves designs its products for agencies to use for modernization and edge communications initiatives.
Contracts
NOAA unveils first blueprint for mobile device management contract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants a cloud-hosted offering to manage its inventory of devices that run off the Apple, Microsoft and Google operating systems.
Contracts
NATO’s thumbs-up for AWS shows Europe still needs America
The company has become the first cloud provider to win approval to handle sensitive data for all alliance members.
Opinion
How agentic systems are reshaping government contracting
Treat autonomy as a dial, not a switch: start narrow, log everything and let AI agents earn trust overtime, writes Atul Arya, founder and CEO of Blackstraw AI.
Contracts
Space Force starts to craft satellite communications integration contract
The service branch gives industry an initial glimpse at its plan to hire a technical integrator for mission planning, resource management and other functions.
Sponsor Content
Navigating the Pause: The Increased Impact of CMMC Self-Assessments
Navigate CMMC changes with a practical checklist covering NIST controls, SPRS accountability, and audit-ready compliance requirements.
Contracts
FAR Overhaul gives contracting officers more flexibility on contract type
The proposed rule rewrites shift to a permissive framework and incorporate Trump’s fixed-price contracting executive order.
Companies
Tech bills of the week: Monitoring AI’s use under Section 702; Preventing abuse of Flock plate readers; and more
Lawmakers introduced several measures this week looking to rein in some of the potential abuses and dangers of using AI, as well as a proposal that looks to leverage AI for pediatric cancer research and treatment.
Podcasts
WT 360: Small businesses face ‘seismic’ change to their rules of the road
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, explains to Nick and Ross why that word “seismic” reflects how the Small Business Administration wants to revamp government contracting’s rules for these companies.
Contracts
Oasis protests Army C-UAS contract win by Parsons Corp
The protester is claiming evaluation flaws and an unresolved conflict-of-interest tied to Parsons making the systems it could potentially be testing.
Companies
Tech, growth and sales leadership moves across the market
One of the military's primary engine providers is also undertaking a transition at the very top, among other key promotions and hires to note.
Contracts
FAR Overhaul targets commercial buying and negotiations in newest rewrite
Parts 12 and 15 have revisions ready for industry to read, while two other parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation are deleted entirely in a push to increase competition.
Opinion
DIU is now the Pentagon’s one door for drone tech – here’s how to walk through
DOD has consolidated unmanned systems programs under one office with the Defense Innovation Unit as the commercial gateway. Here’s what that means for contract strategy, data rights, and supply chains, writes Raymond Jones of Spencer Fane LLP.
Contracts
DHS sets fast-track schedule for network, cloud and cyber consolidation vehicle
The Homeland Security Department is working against a compressed timeline to make awards for this contract to centralize IT operations at headquarters and across components.
Contracts
Anthropic extends $1 per user OneGov deal by a month
The OneGov extension means discounted access to Google Gemini is the only deal under the program currently set to expire at the end of this month.
Contracts