VA targets 585 ‘non-mission critical’ contracts for elimination
The Veterans Affairs Department claims $900 million in savings and that the cuts will not impact health care, benefits or services. The Veterans Affairs Department is moving to cancel 585 contracts that it has deemed non-mission critical or duplicative. VA has announced the cuts Monday afternoon and said the decision follows a review of 2,000 professional […]
4 keys for effectively optimizing the GovCon workforce
Adopting a technology-first mindset is only step one in the overall direction, writes Raju Karki of Karki Consulting Group. Workforce optimization in the modern workplace is complex, to say the least. Between managing distributed teams, different shift schedules, state labor laws for overtime and double overtime, adhering to the Service Contract Act (SCA), HR governance, and […]
COMMENTARY: The chainsaw approach to cutting government promises more damage than results
The new GovCon oversight strategy seems to go like this: Make big, broad accusations of wrongdoing and then watch your targets squirm. Hundreds of small businesses have seen contracts cancelled in recent weeks as the Trump administration pushes its agenda forward, but the largest of the large businesses in the market are not being spared either. The […]
ICF lays out the risks, opportunities from Trump’s push for cuts
The company has quantified the risks from actions like stop-work orders and contract terminations, but is also looking at the tech business as where some opportunity exists. Publicly traded government contractors have a unique approach to transparency with their investors, given they have to release financial results and the factors underlying those numbers. GovCon companies also […]
Hegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday that new U.S. foreign policy configurations “largely coincides with our vision.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down on cyber and information operations planning against Russia, according to a U.S. official and a second person familiar with the order. The move appears to be intended as […]
WT 360: Inside the government’s quantum computing push
Alexandra Kelley, who reports on emerging technology for NextGovFCW, jumps in to explain how and why federal agencies are ahead of the curve in quantum computing. Few doubt that quantum computing will have a tremendous impact on the tech world and beyond. But as NextGovFCW’s emerging technology reporter Alexandra Kelley explains in this episode, it […]