Emerging Tech
Microsoft Challenges Intelligence Agency's $1B Task Order to Amazon
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency went down the sole-source route, which of course led to a protest.
Acquisition
New NASA IT contract may consolidate 10 programs
Large and small business incumbents will all feel the impact of how NASA plans to structure its Consolidated Applications and Platform Services acquisition.
Emerging Tech
SAIC Lands $319M Kessel Run Program to Improve Air Force C2 Systems
Falconer Air Operations Center Weapon System Sustainment contract lets SAIC leverage its cloud and command-and-control expertise and expand its footprint with the Air Force.
Defense
SAIC lands $319M Kessel Run program to improve Air Force C2 systems
Falconer Air Operations Center Weapon System Sustainment contract lets SAIC leverage its cloud and command-and-control expertise and expand its footprint with the Air Force.
Acquisition
Peraton gets second chance at $800M in Social Security IT work
The Social Security Administration will no longer conduct a price realism analysis, which was the main sticking point of Peraton's protest.
Acquisition
DHA names ineligible companies for $1.5B IT contract
The Defense Health Agency is looking to weed out potential conflicts of interest before they could arise.
Digital Government
Justice Seeks to Stop Booz Allen's Everwatch Acquisition
The department's antitrust lawsuit says the transaction unfairly eliminates competition for providing signals intelligence modeling and simulation services to the National Security Agency.
Digital Government
Teresa Carlson returns to Microsoft
She rejoins the company nearly 12 years on from her last stint there.
People
Questions to ask when hiring former federal workers
A new bid protest ruling describes some trouble spots companies could run into when hiring former government officials.
Defense
DOD plans next phase of JADC2 satellite layer
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems will build 126 satellites under $1.8 billion in contracts to develop the network for tracking and responding to threats from missiles and hypersonic weapons.
Emerging Tech
DOD Plans Next Phase of JADC2 Satellite Layer
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems will build 126 satellites under $1.8 billion in contracts to develop the network for tracking and responding to threats from missiles and hypersonic weapons.
Acquisition
Why NSA has to rebid its $10 billion top-secret cloud buy
Evaluation mistakes sunk NSA's first try at the $10B cloud award known as Wildandstormy.
Acquisition
Analysis: Are better debriefings driving down protests?
Beginning 2018, the Defense Department started conducting what are called "enhanced" debriefings that allow for more dialogue with companies after they've lost a contract. That means unsuccessful bidders get more information on where their bid fell short without filing a protest.
Modernization
General Dynamics challenges rival's $2.7B cloud migration win
An incumbent on a key Homeland Security data center contract says it should have been the one to manage the migration to a hybrid environment.
People
John Garing, former Air Force and DISA exec, dies at 78
The winner of GCN's Hall of Fame award in 2010, Garing continued his government IT career with Suss Consulting and Vion Corp.
Modernization
Court denies Perspecta's NGEN protest
Perspecta has held the Next General Enterprise Network contract for 20 years, dating back to when one of its legacy business in EDS won the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract in 2000.
Acquisition
GSA cancels troubled ALLIANT 2 small business vehicle
GSA awarded spots on Alliant 2 SB to 81 companies in February 2018 but those award were followed by over a year of protests at the Government Accountability Office and at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Modernization
Perspecta's NGEN protest denied
The Government Accountability Office has denied Perspecta’s challenge of the $7.7 billion Navy NGEN award that went to Leidos.
Modernization
General Dynamics loses NGEN protest
General Dynamics IT has lost its protest of the $7.7 billion Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network recompete award that went to Leidos in February, according to a statement released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office.
Modernization
DOD's $7.6B cloud email buy heads for redo
Less than a week before a final protest ruling was due, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the General Services Administration are taking another corrective action in their big business software buy for DOD.
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