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Agencies launch initiative to better identify minority-owned contractors

The joint effort between the Small Business Administration and the General Services Administration aims to make it easier for federal procurement officials to connect with small, disadvantaged businesses across sectors.

  • By Chris Riotta

Booz Allen dinged for management plan in lost $2.5B NSA contract

The National Security Agency liked CACI International's bid for the FocusedFox cyber and intelligence contract for more reasons than just price.

  • By Nick Wakeman

NGA chooses 5 for $947M professional services vehicle

The contract called "Clover" is for acquisition and financial management support.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army awards 29 spots on $900M info management contract

This fourth iteration of the so-called "IMCS" contract continues support for the Army's Network Enterprise Command that operates and defends computer networks.

  • By Ross Wilkers

FDA announces contract for automation in drug performance analyses

The Food and Drug Administration is asking for proposals for automated devices that can provide high-definition imaging and critical analyses of drug performance as the agency works to integrate more AI.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Debt defaults are not shutdowns, but both raise money fears

Question number one that companies in the government market want answered is how payments for their work on contracts will, or will not, happen in a debt default situation. No one knows for sure.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DHS' cyber agency seeks small biz support for strategic planning

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has set a date to explain its changes to a management consulting services contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Booz Allen touts $919M award for 'Soldier-as-a-System'

The goal is to further advance technologies for this concept that includes items worn, carried, or used by soldiers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

VA lacks goals to assess satisfaction with new EHR, watchdog finds

The report found the absence of such goals has limited the Veterans Affairs Department's ability to measure user satisfaction with the new electronic health record system.

  • By Edward Graham

CACI can now book its $2.4B NSA win

With the last remaining protest denied, CACI can move ahead on this intelligence and cybersecurity contract called FocusedFox that is now in the win column.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Pentagon outlines contractor cybersecurity plan

Industry should look out for the congressionally-mandated strategy to go out by the end of the year.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Blue Origin wins $3.4B shot to build lunar lander

The company won the competition to build a second lander for NASA that will ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program.

  • By Nick Wakeman

NIST builds infrastructure for CHIPS loan program

The agency wants help to create financial models and analyzing capital markets as it manages billions in loans and grants to restore the U.S. semiconductor industry.

  • By Nick Wakeman

IRS adds more primes to resolve protests

The IRS faced a pair of protests but to move forward with a set of BPAs for modernization services, the agency added the protesters to the contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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VA puts Oracle Cerner on a short leash in $10B health records contract

The agency extended the contract for its EHR provider by one year, and put performance conditions in place.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Space Force considering contractor-owned satellite management system

Ownership and operations of the systems managing a pair of satellites would be turned over to a contractor, according to a new sources sought notice

  • By Nick Wakeman

Leidos, Booz Allen keep pushing for $1.3B cloud contract

The Treasury Department's TCloud blanket purchase agreement was won by SAIC, but the two challengers claim the evaluation was improper.

  • By Nick Wakeman

A classified cloud Is headed to the Indo-Pacific

It’s part of DISA’s effort to bring continental-U.S.-level computing resources to U.S. military forces around the world.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

VA prepares next version of its cybersecurity support contract

The contract supports the VA Cybersecurity Operations Center, which is charged with monitoring and responding to threats across the VA enterprise.

  • By Nick Wakeman

What's going on with DHS' enterprise cloud plan?

The Department of Homeland Security teased its plan for a 10-year enterprise cloud contract in the fall and then went relatively quiet. Based on previous cloud procurements, that could be a good thing.

  • By Carten Cordell

SAIC fights to keep incumbent NASA contract

The company argues that NASA did a poor job in evaluating proposals for a $719 million engineering services award.

  • By Nick Wakeman