DOD suspends CMMC Phase 2, launches 60-day ‘reform’ review
DOD suspends CMMC Phase 2, launches 60-day ‘reform’ review
Opinion
Every capability needs a mission story
To build trust with your customers, your marketing efforts should focus on how what you do supports the mission, writes Katie Helwig of Mild Red LLC.
Companies
Leidos layoff notices hit 305 people in non-customer roles
The reductions, less than 1% of the workforce, targeted indirect positions as the company pushes to reshuffle for efficiency.
Contracts
HHS seeks small business support for future vendor management office
The Health and Human Services Department has started its work to find a contractor that can help oversee various software licensing agreements.
Sponsor Content
Securing the government mission: Leveraging agentic AI for cybersecurity
Learn how AI is transforming government cybersecurity with faster threat detection, smarter defense, and automated security operations.
Companies
TOP 100: LMI's commercial tech approach hinges on the business model
As Company No. 73 sees the world, bespoke problems that are unique to government do not get in the way of efforts to "capture all of the goodness" of de-risking the tech quickly.
Podcasts
WT 360: Odyssey Systems and the landscape’s shifts in speed, decision authorities
Matt Kasberg, chief executive of Company No. 73 on our 2026 Top 100, explains how Odyssey Systems works with the defense acquisition community amid a period of so much change in that function.
Contracts
Census Bureau sets industry day as 2030 planning gets underway
The agency is planning a group of multiple-award pacts that would hire small businesses to help with application development and planning for the next census.
Contracts
Navy teases next step in key drone boat program
A request for prototypes is expected in August.
Companies
Bluestone hires Moorman to lead space, missile defense company
Bluestone brought together Qualis, InTrack Radar Technologies and Tektonux to form this 400-employee entity.
Companies
Tech, growth and financial leadership moves across the market
Booz Allen, CACI, Everfox and more than a dozen other companies bring in fresh executive talent across cyber, electronic warfare, health IT and business development.
Sponsor Content
Modern missile defense depends on trusted data
Can you trust mission critical data? Explore the technologies powering faster, more confident defense decisions.
Contracts
NGA wants ideas for automatically spotting changes in its geospatial data
A commercial solutions opening seeks vendors with ideas on how to flag relevant changes around the world instead of the current manual process.
Contracts
Air Force Research Lab picks joint venture for $499M integration support contract
The Space Systems and Hardware Integration for Novel Experiments contract is structured as a "cradle-to-grave" effort.
Contracts
CMS makes awards on $3.5B data, research support recompete
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is tasking winners to help the agency create analytical models and demonstrations for health care programs.
Contracts
Greg Barbaccia to leave federal CIO role at end of August
“Greg has done an excellent job as Federal CIO and Chief AI Officer,” an OMB spokesperson told Nextgov/FCW. “He will certainly be missed when his time here comes to an end.”
Contracts
How Ukraine won the first great robot war
In a new video, Science & Tech editor Patrick Tucker looks at how the narrative has shifted.
Opinion
Federal AI policy just changed again. Is your security stack ready?
The White House's Anthropic directive shows why contractors can't build compliance around any single AI tool or ruling, writes Mark Mitchell of Netskope.
Contracts
Army's $50B MAPS contract hit with wave of protests over evaluation criteria
Seven protesters (so far) are citing scoring ambiguities, tight deadlines and "systemic procurement instability."
Top 100
TOP 100: DLT's new leader bets on distributors as 'orchestrators,' not middlemen
Wendy Welch tells us that pricing volatility, artificial intelligence and the OneGov initiative's push toward more direct agreements with tech names make resellers like Company No. 87 more essential — not less.
Companies
TOP 100: How Odyssey Systems views acquisition and its links to field operations
Company No. 73's blueprint for growing into new areas contains a mix of small leaps and longer-term bets that look ahead by five-to-10 years.
Companies