Opinion

How agencies can use fiscal year-end funds to drive transformation

End-of-year spending can support meaningful investments that sustain momentum and amplify ongoing efforts, writes IBM's Terry Halverson.

Contracts

Army chooses bundling to recompete billions in professional services, IT vehicles

The future Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services contract is being designed to bring staff augmentation and technology support from industry into one procurement.

Exclusive Contracts

US taps IBM for 5-year contract to boost European, Eurasian allies’ cyber posture

Officials are concerned that a lack of institution building in such nations will allow digital adversaries to gain a larger foothold in allied countries’ networks.

Companies

IBM wins $279M USCIS application development job

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency is looking to further iterate E-Verify, the programs that check an individual's eligibility for employment and benefits.

Companies

How IBM blends AI and cyber for its federal clients

Artificial intelligence is one of the main priorities of Big Blue's corporate strategy and cybersecurity is a critical part of that.

Contracts

IBM prevails in fight for $100M Navy HR contract

The Navy gets affirmation of its choice of Big Blue for a project to consolidate and transform the branch's human resources applications.

Contracts

IBM awarded $576M DOD chip manufacturing contract

The 10-year contract tasks Big Blue to build a secure enclave for semiconductor development and shoring up supply chains.

Contracts

Veterans Affairs starts to preview intake services recompete

An industry day is on the schedule to hear about the next iteration of this contract geared toward making VA a paperless claims processing environment.

Opinion

First CHIPS Act award signals start of U.S. semiconductor push

The Commerce Department chose a major defense hardware maker as recipient number one of CHIPS For America grant money, which certainly will go across multiple industries that are of importance to public sector.

Opinion

Where IBM's protest over financial requirements fell short

A newly-released bid protest ruling details how the Veterans Affairs Department wants to look at bidders' liquidity ratios for a supply chain modernization contract.

Contracts

IBM loses attempt to change VA supply chain modernization contract evaluation

In this unsuccessful protest, Big Blue argued that the Veterans Affairs Department's approach restricted competition.

Companies

HiddenLayer closes $50M Series A capital raise

Booz Allen Hamilton's venture capital fund is among the investors in this one-year-old startup that focuses on defending artificial intelligence systems.

Contracts

Army turns to OTA to revamp its ERP systems

IBM, Accenture and Groundswell are building prototypes for a new Army enterprise resource planning system to consolidate and reengineer processes for finance, human resources and other business functions.

Podcasts

WT 360: IBM's blueprint for making a bigger impact across public sector

Susan Wedge from IBM Consulting and Mark Johnson of IBM detail how what Big Blue does and what it wants to do for U.S. government agencies feeds into the corporation's larger vision.

Contracts

Price evaluation mistakes nixed Accenture's Air Force win

The Air Force left off some labor categories when it evaluated Accenture's bid to provide internet-of-thing solutions.

Contracts

IBM wins second shot at Air Force 'Internet of Things' contract

Big Blue challenged the Air Force's choice of Accenture to build the platform at Tinker Air Force Base, but now the service branch will reconsider part of the evaluation.

Companies

IBM partners with U.S. and Japanese universities on quantum supercomputer R&D

With funding from IBM, universities in both countries will collaborate to develop a quantum supercomputer to spur further innovation in the field.

Contracts

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.

Companies

An initial look inside the combined IBM-Octo team

This transaction was easily the government market's most surprising one of 2022, both the largest in the history of the IBM Consulting business and a move that Big Blue's chief executive signed off on.

Contracts

Pair of protestors secure places on $1.7B NIH BPA

The National Cancer Institute makes additional awards after it had second look at proposals.