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Trump’s ‘pincer maneuver’ reshapes federal contracting landscape

Contractors are under more pressure than before to justify value and embrace innovation as the DOGE seeks radical efficiencies through cuts and process reforms.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Energy to reconsider $3.5B IT contract award to Accenture

A pair of protests have prompted the department to take a second look at claims of improper pricing evaluation.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Pentagon aims to accelerate acquisition of new tech through software-contracting change

Buyers must default to rapid-acquisition processes long used by DIU, SecDef memo orders.

  • By Patrick Tucker

Anduril wins $642M Marines counter-drone tech contract

The service branch wants to cover the entire kill chain and use signature disruption as its means for countering adversaries' unmanned aircraft.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GAO tells Air Force to re-evaluate $121.4M Trace Systems contract

The watchdog agency sends this communications support award back to the Air Force for a redo.

  • By Nick Wakeman

GSA continues slow drip of RIFs, nearly wiping out entire offices

More cuts are coming. Staff in the Technology Transformation Services were told Thursday that their team will be halved.

  • By Eric Katz and Natalie Alms
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Army wraps up awards for $921M training tech support contract

Maximum reuse of existing product components and service life extension are the Army's priorities here.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Space Force hopes it gains from Hegseth’s budget shift

Vice chief says service is looking for things to cut—and has suggestions for things to buy.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Certification question puts woman-owned business contract at risk

Strategic Alliance is challenging its elimination from an award on the OASIS+ professional services vehicle, claiming an inconsistent application of certification requirements.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to freeze USAID payments

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices require the administration to honor existing aid and contracts obligations while the legal battle continues.

  • By Nick Wakeman

NTT Data contests $111M CDC contract on technicality

The incumbent is challenging the rival’s eligibility over a corporate name discrepancy in the government's official database of who its contractors are.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Some cancelled VA contracts disappear from ‘Wall of Receipts’ as more cuts loom

Despite inconsistencies, veteran-owned businesses are bearing the brunt of the DOGE-driven eliminations at the Veterans Affairs Department.

  • By Nick Wakeman

VA targets 585 ‘non-mission critical’ contracts for elimination

The Veterans Affairs Department claims $900 million in savings and that the cuts will not impact health care, benefits or services.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Hegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday that new U.S. foreign policy configurations “largely coincides with our vision.”

  • By David DiMolfetta

Library of Congress tries again at $450M agile development vehicle awards

The agency sticks with the original number of eight awardees, but the mix is different following a re-evaluation of bids.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DHS awards 4 seats on $153M geospatial acquisition support pact

Homeland Security Department agencies and components use this blanket purchase agreement to acquire services such as data analysis and project management.

  • By Ross Wilkers

ACI wins $276M Army mobile tech support contract

Work under the contract supports Nett Warrior, a mobile device designed to enable situational awareness and interoperability out in the field.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy chooses 41 for $249M acquisition lifecycle contract

Awardees will be responsible for carrying out analytical, technical and managerial efforts that aid in sensitive activities.

  • By Ross Wilkers

General Dynamics IT wins $1B CMS cloud recompete

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services uses this task order as a mechanism for acquiring commercial cloud offerings.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DOGE slashes reported value of cancelled Leidos contract

The Elon Musk-led group quietly drops the figure from $1 billion to much less than $1 million and is no longer disclosing any actual savings.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Veteran-owned small firms hit first by VA's push for $2B in contract cuts

Service-disabled veteran entrepreneurs bear 89% of the claimed savings. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins claims this is just step one.

  • By Nick Wakeman