FedScoop

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the pre-GPT era of artificial intelligence, there wasn’t a ton for the National Archives and Records Administration — and its billions of unstructured documents — to do with the technology. Needless to say, things have changed considerably for NARA since OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other generative AI applications exploded onto the scene.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 17, 2025

The General Services Administration and Microsoft reached an agreement under the Governmentwide Microsoft Acquisition Strategy (GMAS) to streamline IT acquisition processes and enhance cybersecurity standards for agencies procuring the companys services, the GSA announced Wednesday.

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IT Vendor Management Risk Management Education 80

FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Addressing underrepresentation in the IT workforce is the first step toward developing a robust pipeline of Native American IT professionals, according to Monday’s multipanel session at TribalNet 2024.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security wants to transition its massive biometric identity management system to more cloud-focused technology. Now, it’s seeking more information from vendors about their biometric capabilities as it tries to pursue that goal. It also asks them to address biometric identity standards.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 9, 2025

Raft, a technology consulting firm, has received a contract valued at $25.1 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide cloud computing and IT integration 2.0

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Integration Integrity IT Contract 97

FedScoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The General Services Administration has awarded its Polaris small business governmentwide acquisition contract for IT services to 102 vendors, with awards for other types of vendors on the way. Unlike its predecessor, the new Polaris contract doesnt have an award ceiling.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The nuclear physics program in the Energy Department’s Science Office wants to use artificial intelligence to help control its advanced accelerators, according to a new solicitation posted to the agency’s website. Letters of intent are due in November and final applications are due by Jan.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The surface area, which can be susceptible to digital attack, encompasses all the equipment and software that connect to an organization’s network. These include applications, code, ports, servers and websites.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Office of Personnel Management will lean heavily on artificial intelligence as it leverages a recent Technology Modernization award to update legacy mainframe programs for its retirement systems, according to an agency spokesperson. The latter approach would take five years, according to the spokesperson.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Bryon Kroger, Rise8 founder and CEO, is a U.S. Air Force veteran turned bureaucracy hacker who is relentless in his pursuit of making the world work better—a future where fewer bad things happen because of bad software. Rise8 enables large enterprises with critical missions to continuously deliver valuable software that users love.

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Quality IT Government Government 104

GovCon & Trade

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This comes after an SBA rule and Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision created confusion as to whether the joint venture (JV) itself needed to hold an EED or whether the individual entities must. SBA Rule On October 16, 2020, the SBA issued a rule that made significant changes to its regulations concerning small business contracting.

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Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals has issued its annual report for FY 2023, shedding light on how often contractor appeals reach a successful result, and what agencies are most frequently involved in contract litigation. The Board also dismissed 243 cases, a majority of which were dismissals due to settlement by the parties.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Department of the Navy’s third attempt to modernize its contract writing system and overall electronic procurement system is on shaky ground. That hubris reared its ugly head most recently in June when the Navy retracted a technical assessment that found shortcomings in the Navy’s electronic procurement system (ePS) program.

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Procurement Electronics Contract Evaluation 115

Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These provisions include: Enhancing the Readiness and Effectiveness of the Cyber Mission Force. The Senate bill kicks off its focus on the cyber workforce in Section 1701 of the bill, which would require DoD to improve the readiness and effectiveness of its Cyber Mission Force (“CMF”). The CMF is the U.S. Cyber Command’s “action arm.”

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Networking Data Evaluation Government Contracts 173

Federal News Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

A clause in the Defense Authorization law for 2025 has procurement attorneys sitting up in their chairs. It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. Chris Griesedieck: No, it’s not. Tom Temin: Wow.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

And just as agencies are implementing zero trust architecture to help with this wave, other IT developments are threatening to upend cybersecurity even more. For instance, artificial intelligence is being incorporated into software, even as elected officials and regulatory agencies are trying to develop new rules of the road for its use.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Global Engagement Center, which tracks and exposes foreign disinformation narratives in foreign countries, will see its authority to operate expire Dec.

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IT 145

Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

If finalized, this would be a major change for the agency, reversing a policy that has been in place for more than 40 years. FHWA has imposed Buy America requirements for domestic iron and steel on its projects since 1978 ( see 23 U.S.C. §

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Manufacturing Transportation Transportation Electronics 147

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It’s unclear why the FBI and DCIS served the warrant at the company’s headquarters. The Carahsoft spokeswoman declined to say what the law enforcement activity pertained to, but confirmed it was not related to an ongoing False Claims Act investigation. Carahsoft has dealt with charges of violating the False Claims Act previously.

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Collusion Price Demand Bidding 144

FedScoop

JUNE 27, 2024

From human intelligence collection to information gathered in the open, the CIA is leveraging generative artificial intelligence for a wide swath of its intelligence-gathering mission set today, and plans to continue to expand upon that into the future, according to the agency’s AI lead. “And being bias-free, right?

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

million in TMF funds, NARA will upgrade two outdated IT systems no longer supported by its vendor with new cloud-based software. The new applications improve efficiencies and provide veterans and their families — and hundreds of federal agencies — with faster, more reliable and secure access to records.

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Efficiency IT 138

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service’s search of Carahsoft Technology Corp.’s s headquarters last week is sparking new questions and concerns about the long-term viability of vendors selling in the federal market and dependable access to specific technologies by agencies. In fiscal 2023, Carahsoft won $1.4

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Agencies are able to access the sandbox through existing contracts with any of the six federally funded R&D centers that MITRE operates, which include the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration and others.

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Sustainability Finance Budget Data 120

AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

This post details how Kokomo used Amazon Web Services (AWS) database and analytics tools to create a health-tracking platform that allowed LAUSD to cut its costs by 50 percent while improving flexibility and response times. Both apps have been foundational to LAUSD’s campus security strategy. Kokomo successfully migrated 3.7

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Data Education Collaboration Price 126

Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Planning The first strategy looks to procurement planning. Brazil has used this strategy aggressively in its efforts to implement “green procurement,” and the U.S. government in April 2024 issued a final rule calling for contracting officials to plan to procure sustainable and services “to the maximum extent practicable.”

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Procurement Procurement Strategies E-procurement Bidder 147

Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 9, 2025

Each year, New York City spends over $30 billion a year on public contracts to deliver essential good and services to its eight million residents. This is an enormous amount of spending, more than most U.S. states or indeed many countries. Were thinking about how to leverage technology to create more access to procurement opportunities.

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Participation Government Contracts Government Government 104

GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On December 21, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed a protest by ELS, an unsuccessful bidder on a Department of Defense (DOD) task order opportunity, concluding that it did not have jurisdiction to consider it. GAO reasoned that because “the value of the task order [was] below $25,000,000. 4106(f)(1) and 10 U.S.C. 3406f(2).

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Bidding Thresholds Price Evaluation 147

GovCon & Trade

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Following the Navy’s evaluation, HSV’s quotation was found to be technically unacceptable, and Seasmoke was subsequently awarded the contract. Challenging Terms of Solicitation as Biased Following the award, HSV protested it at the GAO. GAO quickly dismissed this challenge as untimely.

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Bidding Evaluation Consulting Import 147

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

SAIC, which won a spot on COMET and plans to bid on COMET II, was one of about 400 companies at the industry day for the BPA last December. COMET blasted through expectations GSA awarded COMET in October 2019 to 12 companies for a range of IT services focused only on the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). Under COMET, vendors just needed the IT SIN.

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Bidder Bidding E-procurement Purchasing 96

FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Army needs to improve its IT asset management to complement its security operations and create a more robust environment for the modern warfighter, according to CDW Government technology experts. Asset management refers to the steering of hardware and software, including applications, through their lifecycles, from…

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Management Government Government IT 118

FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Login.gov, the single sign-on platform provided by the General Services Administration, will begin offering a new identity verification option to its partners. Looking ahead, we will continue to uphold our values of equity, privacy and transparency by incorporating best-in-class technology and learning from our academic and user research.”

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Transparency Evaluation Import IT 106

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A decade after releasing its landmark national cybersecurity framework, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Monday released version 2.0 , an updated document that emphasizes governance and supply chain issues for both public and private sector entities.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Management Transparency 137

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 11, 2024

“The department would like to thank all the businesses and industry associations that provided input during the public comment period,” DoD said in a statement released today. The final rule released today establishes the CMMC program and processes into law. Separately, the Pentagon published a proposed CMMC acquisition rule this past summer.

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Networking Contract Professional Services Management 131

Federal News Network

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Interview transcript: Tom Temin: And short of an appropriation, a continuing resolution, at least the money is still flowing for what most contractors are working on, fair to say? Stephanie Kostro: It is fair to say that Tom and thanks so much for having me. Continuing resolutions are more the rule than the exception, right? Tom Temin: Right.

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Budget Professional Services Contract Procurement 106

GovLoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But theres a catch: Many modern solutions require a modern infrastructure. That is a big concern of federal IT leaders, according to the recent EY Center for Modernization survey of public-sector officials. The survey found: 64% of federal respondents were worried that their infrastructure could not handle emerging tech.

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Project Management Collaboration Data Management 111

GovCon & Trade

JANUARY 22, 2024

On September 11, the agency notified L3Harris that the contract was awarded to Ball. On March 12, 2023, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) hired a former senior Ball executive to be its director. L3Harris argued that the conflict required that the award to Ball be terminated and Ball be disqualified from the GXS competition.

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Bidding Procurement Evaluation Influencing 147