Acquisition
Lawsuit upends $4B DHS software buy
A push to buy a modernized DHS financial management system is being held up by another court battle, one that threatens to again upend a project that already suffers from a long history of failure.
Modernization
Space Force and cyber
Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center under the U.S. Space Force, said cybersecurity was increasingly integral to space missions and changes had to be made to infrastructure contracts.
Acquisition
New small biz GWAC dubbed Polaris
A draft request for proposals for a new small business contract vehicle is expected from the General Services Administration in the coming months.
Acquisition
Army needs to analyze OTA use, watchdog report finds
A GAO report found that the Army needs to do a thorough analysis of its use of rapid acquisition agreements to make contracting practices more uniform.
Acquisition
VA on the fence about homegrown patient portal
The My HealtheVet tool used by more than 3 million veterans to access care at the Department of Veterans Affairs could be retired in favor of a tool from vendor Cerner as part of the agency's $16 billion electronic health record software upgrade.
Modernization
DHS poised for major EIS commitment
The Department of Homeland Security is getting ready to implement a big part of its plans for the federal government's $50 billion next-generation telecommunications contract.
Acquisition
Trump's diversity training purge becomes a debate topic
At the first presidential debate, Donald Trump said that he had ordered trainings on race and gender sensitivity training canceled because the curriculum is "racist". His opponent countered saying, "he's the racist."
Modernization
NARA looks to multi-cloud
The federal government's archive drafting a multi-cloud storage acquisition strategy to accommodate other agencies' digital data.
Acquisition
Interior awards $482M EIS task order
The Department of the Interior signed another sizeable task order this month for telephone services under the General Services Administration's $50 billion, next-generation telecommunications contract.
Cybersecurity
Shared services poised for adoption
Quality Service Management Offices shared service offerings move closer to reality for federal agencies.
Acquisition
Culture and IT modernization
Attempting to modernize without a comprehensive approach that accounts for an agency's culture, engages its workforce and addresses critical business practices can actually create new or additional challenges that limit effectiveness and negatively affect mission outcomes.
Acquisition
IG: GSA system erred on small business designation
Large businesses were misidentified as small businesses in General Services Administration's procurement data system, according to the agency's watchdog.
Acquisition
Shakeup at CMMC board
The independent board charged with implementing the Defense Department's unified cybersecurity standard has new leadership as it announces new milestone hit.
Acquisition
Recent EIS activity goes on the books
The Department of the Interior, the Council on Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency and the Defense Information Systems Agency spent the summer awarding Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task orders.
Acquisition
Re-imagining the small-business mentor-protege model
Steve Kelman looks at the efforts of a non-traditional contractor to bring new firms into the fold.
Acquisition
'Huawei ban' means contract modifications
The General Services Administration is seeing high rates of acceptance of contract modifications from contractors to comply with acquisition rules in the 2019 defense bill.
Acquisition
DOD refreshes acquisition policies
The Defense Department released a long-awaited update of policies governing its buying practices, with an eye to rapid technology acquisition.
Modernization
DOD affirms JEDI award to Microsoft
After a reevaluation of certain aspects of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure solicitation, the Defense Department is sticking with its guns and giving the contract to Microsoft -- but that doesn't mean a long-running legal battle will just go away.
Modernization
FCC estimates $1.8 billion to replace Huawei, ZTE telecom parts
The agency also released a list of 51 firms that would qualify for reimbursement, spanning from smaller telecoms to large vendors like Verizon and CenturyLink.
Acquisition
DISA to deliver web-browsing protection to 1.5M users
The Defense Information Systems Agency is moving into production for its $199 million cloud-based internet security tool, aiming to migrate 1.5 million users in the first year.
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