Contracts

Veterans Affairs chooses 17 for $650M tech R&D vehicle

Advanced manufacturing, data transformation and digital health innovation are among the VA's key focus areas for this contract.

Contracts

Air Force to rethink $5.7B enterprise IT award to CACI

The service will look at conflict-of-interest allegations and how it evaluated proposals for this portion of its Enterprise IT as a Service effort.

Contracts

Protests hit CACI's $5.7B Air Force win

Every other company that bid on the enterprise IT services contract wants at least a second chance at it.

Companies

Pair of GovCon businesses appoint new operation chiefs

Accenture Federal Services' new COO is from within its own ranks while BlueHalo hired an industry veteran as its second-highest executive.

Contracts

Commerce watchdog to probe $340M cloud program

The program is facing delays in deployments to component agencies at the department.

Contracts

Accenture books $199M TSA screening support contract

The company's federal business will incorporate new technologies into a system used for pre-screening passengers.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Inside Accenture's progress on integrating Novetta

Tiffanny Gates and Ira Entis of Accenture Federal Services update WT Editor Nick Wakeman on the integration of Novetta and where they see that combination taking company no. 13 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings.

Top 100

TOP 100: Accenture again chooses change with Novetta acquisition

Company No. 13 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is taking another opportunity to challenge the way it does business.

Contracts

NASA pushing prize competitions with new awards

Challenges like this are an avenue for companies to both help NASA solve hard technical problems and find potential partners.

Contracts

NASA expands crowdsourcing program

More companies join the effort, for which NASA expanded the ceiling to $175 million so it could conduct more prize challenges to solve tough problems.

Contracts

Five win seats on $1B Navy audit support contract

The Navy uses this program to improve the way it prepares for having its finances looked over.

Companies

Accenture's federal arm books $199M TSA ID system award

Accenture Federal Services clinches a $199 million award to help the Transportation Security Administration bring together three identification systems into a single environment.

Companies

Accenture’s federal arm hires new applied intelligence leader

The U.S. federal subsidiary of Accenture hires a veteran of SAIC and IBM to lead the applied intelligence practice focused on data science and other aspects of automation.

Contracts

Accenture takes on PTO development work

Under an $87 million task order, Accenture Federal Services will work with the Patent and Trademark Office on improving how people file and register for trademarks.

Booz Allen loses incumbent IRS contract

Booz Allen Hamilton fought hard to keep a $57 million contract with the IRS, but the GAO shot down its arguments at every turn.

Lessons learned from Accenture's FBI HR modernization project

Accenture has successfully completed the first phase of modernizing the FBI's human resource system, and the project is already giving up lessons on the power of partnership.

Accenture report shows slow cloud adoption

Despite the federal Cloud First mandate, only 10 percent of agencies have migrated more than one half of their IT portfolios to the cloud so far. A new Accenture report points to some of the reasons why.

Three win $65M BPA to support Social Security Administration

Three companies have won a $65 million blanket purchase agreement to provide specialized advisory and assistance support services to the Social Security Administration.

AT&T Government names new VP of technology

AT&T Government Solutions has named Chris Smith vice president, Technology, where he will lead a team of 175 technologists in the development of a broad array of AT&T products and services focused on the federal market's needs.

Accenture completes acquisition of ASM Research

Accenture has completed its acquisition of ASM Research, which brings more defense health expertise to the company.