Government Contracts

MAY 13, 2024

An information technology firm has urged the Court of Federal Claims to restore its eligibility for a pending $10 billion U.S. Army IT hardware procurement, saying the Army wrongly excluded the company for one missing word in its proposal.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Lamb Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of GovCIO, has secured a spot on a potential five-year, $1.5 billion Administrative Office of the United States Courts Judiciary IT Services blanket purchase agreement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. This involves breaking down larger projects into smaller, more manageable components and using iterative development processes.

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On September 29, the Small Business Administration (SBA) reopened its Certify portal to new applicants seeking admittance into the SBA 8(a) program. This decision comes over a month after a ruling from the Eastern District of Tennessee prohibited the SBA from applying a presumption of social disadvantage to certain designated groups.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Pentagon’s massive contract to overhaul the military’s system for moving military members’ belongings from one duty station to another has cleared its latest technical hurdle and is finally ready to start being used for moves, company officials involved with the multibillion dollar contract told investors Tuesday.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 14, 2024

Juan Navarro , an experienced information technology professional who previously served as CEO of HDT Global , has been appointed as the new president and CEO of Advanced IT Concepts. He will assume responsibility for guiding the company through its upcoming phase of growth, the Florida-based company said Wednesday.

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FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security has named Michael Boyce as the new director of its AI Corps, an initiative to hire 50 artificial intelligence experts for the agency throughout the year. He also worked as the chief of innovation and design for the Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate at U.S. Digital Service.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 9, 2024

Principi highlighted the advances in medical technologies, treatments, and protocols that have reduced the need for hospital beds and resulted in a VA medical infrastructure that is a mismatch due to its surplus number of hospitals and facilities. Finally, Principi highlights the noble mission of the VA in delivering critical healthcare to veterans.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The DON Enterprise License Agreement BPA was made as part of a reseller or software publisher software category management deal for commercial-off-the-shelf information technology asset management software, software maintenance support, IT

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s February release of version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework is a milestone in the evolution of cyber standards, expanding them to encompass all sectors.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

ManTech will help the U.S. Air Force transform its human capital information technology profile under a new $110 million contract.

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GovLoop

MAY 23, 2023

But that approach has proven costly and insufficient as cyber criminals devise new schemes to invade our networks and traditional on-premises systems become more scattered and diffuse. So, the federal government , some local governments and much of the private sector now are transitioning to a zero-trust architecture. But it’s critical.

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FedScoop

MARCH 22, 2024

Tasked with managing federal use of spectrum, the NTIA has already identified the IT systems that it aims to modernize and submitted a contract order for acquisition planning support, the GAO notes. The GAO report pushes NTIA to follow the watchdog’s cost estimating and assessment guide and pursue independent cost estimates as it moves forward.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is looking for feedback on its “secure by design” white paper, which pushes software manufacturers to follow more stringent security principles in the design and development of all products shipped to customers. The deadline for comment submissions to CISA’s RFI is Feb.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Advancements in information technology have completely altered the intelligence community’s ability to disseminate its analysis and data to those who need it most, like policymakers, diplomats and defense leaders. Without it, the IC would be “doing all of this with paper and pencil.

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Great Government Through Technology

MARCH 28, 2024

Team acquisition Acquisition is a team sport, and as we continue to build IT acquisition vehicles, we recognize how important it is to be engaged and transparent with our agency and industry partners and to embrace innovative acquisition solutions, while learning from stakeholder feedback and expert procurement professionals in the IT field.

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 26, 2023

After a long gestation period the UK Procurement Bill has finally reached the end of its legislative process. The Bill has now received Royal Assent , the final hurdle to become law, in this case the Procurement Act.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Despite the U.S. federal government not having yet passed a full-year defense appropriation for fiscal year 2024, the Navy has ironed out its request for FY 2025, including a sizable amount for its contribution to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, DefenseScoop reports.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 3, 2024

What are the various price analysis techniques available to the world’s largest buyer of goods and services? “It It All Adds Up” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest government contract accounting, cost, and pricing developments. View the full article

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FedScoop

MARCH 13, 2024

Like many agencies across the federal government , the National Science Foundation is taking a measured and risk-based approach to the adoption of generative AI, its newly appointed CIO said Wednesday. Where is that data? And how sensitive is that data?” ” Carpenter explained. “We have to figure this out. It’s not going away.

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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on a draft federal health IT strategic plan. ONC said in a press release that it collaborated on the plan with 25 federal agencies that interact with health IT through purchasing, developing and regulating in order to improve health outcomes.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Agencies today are faced with the challenge of modernizing legacy IT solutions to streamline workflows and increase the speed and quality of their services.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction Application owners are committed to developing new applications and enhancing existing ones rapidly as a top business priority. To tackle this challenge, it is imperative that you design your systems with a comprehensive understanding of how your workloads will perform in real-world scenarios.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 15, 2024

T-Rex Solutions has secured a five-year, $52 million prime contract from the Department of Education’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to support the Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies program, a project that aims to integrate and secure the department’s information technology services.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tune in to this week’s episode of Feds at the Edge for what these experts have to say about automating what you can so you can free up talent to solve today’s more complex issues. To view this webinar: How to Increase Government IT Agility. Gupta leads business and technology transformation efforts for the DMV to become a modern enterprise.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

MARCH 11, 2024

Our Two Cents In this second inaugural episode of It All Adds Up, Nicole Owren-Wiest and Erin Rankin riff on why they care so much about government contracts cost and pricing – and why you should, too. “It It All Adds Up” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest government contract accounting, cost, and pricing developments.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

DLH has secured a potential five-year, $23 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue providing a range of information technology services for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The IRS is looking to shore up the staffing of its robotic processing automation arm, as the program aims to develop and deploy 35 to 50 automations annually for the tax agency. Responses for the RFI will be accepted until Jan.

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GovLoop

APRIL 4, 2023

Accommodating remote work and collaboration is now policy, requiring a cultural shift in government. GSA is now building on its well-established telework policy to implement a hybrid work environment and is investing in the components of a zero-trust architecture to verify all its system users. Favorite

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has proven to be a critical partner and resource over the past five years for federal cybersecurity. When a cloud service provider, for example, misses that critical patch or there’s a threat indicator, you know, provide it to us,” she said. And I think there’s a big gap there.”

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded 30 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $60.7 billion contract vehicle for information technology products and services.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress in its push toward digitization — a move made possible by $80 billion in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act — but the agency isn’t there just yet, Commissioner Danny Werfel said Thursday. During the ACT-IAC/DCI CX Summit in Arlington, Va., Believe it or not, we’re not there yet,” Werfel said.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Department of Veterans Affairs has notified stakeholders that it anticipates awarding a potential 10-year, $60.7 billion contract vehicle for information technology products and services by the end of October or early November.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The Defense Information Systems Agency is responsible for administering infrastructure, IT assistance and communications services to various Department of Defense components and combatant commands. However, the agency’s director says there’s a need for an intelligence-gathering wing to bolster situational awareness and gauge threats.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

At its core, the Air Force Zero Trust is the military’s response to high-profile cyber attacks. Recognizing the need to bolster cybersecurity defenses, the U.S. Air Force has initiated efforts to implement the zero-trust security framework.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today, the digital environment plays a key role in the success of defense missions, making it more important than ever that forces located in remote environments – also referred to as the tactical edge – are able to stay connected to critical Department of Defense networks and systems. At the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads at the Tactical

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program evaluates the security of Cloud Service Offerings, or CSOs, prior to their deployment in U.S. government organizations.

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