FAR Council releases changes to 6 sections of acquisition regulation
The White House celebrated the changes as a milestone in its effort to overhaul and simplify the rules surrounding federal buying. The Trump administration is pushing forward in its deregulatory effort to overhaul the primary rules for how the government purchases goods and services, known as the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The FAR Council released new text […]
Advent creates defense photonics business in $400M acquisition
The private equity group is forming a standalone company through this carve-out transaction with Coherent Corp. Coherent Corp. has agreed to sell its defense and aerospace business to the private equity firm Advent International for approximately $400 million. Coherent specializes in photonics and the sale is part of the company’s strategy to focus its portfolio on […]
GSA starts to move on Air Force IT recompete
The General Services Administration’s first notice to industry on what it is calling “2GIT Reimagined” asks about who is an original equipment manufacturer and their sales approaches. The General Services Administration has started to construct the next iteration of Second Generation Information Technology, a blanket purchase agreement primarily geared toward the Air Force but also open […]
Leidos sounds unfazed by GSA’s push to centralize software buys
As Leidos CEO Tom Bell told a group of reporters, the company is “more interested in the system we can build around all of the widgets” to make technology work better for government. “Go commercial” is an apt way to describe the direction that the Defense Department and General Services Administration increasingly want to lead the […]
Original Intelligence: the consulting industry’s last and best advantage
As Y Combinator targets consulting for disruption, success will belong to firms that offer what no AI can: the unexpected, unpatterned, and uncopiable. Y Combinator, the influential Silicon Valley startup accelerator, has made it clear: The consulting industry is on its target list for disruption. To those who know Y Combinator’s track record in upending established […]
GSA introduces USAi.Gov to streamline AI adoption across government
The new platform will be available to all agencies beginning Thursday, allowing government users to explore, experiment with and adopt a variety of AI tools. The General Services Administration unveiled another major Trump administration initiative Thursday, launching USAi.Gov to serve as a centralized, secure and trustworthy generative artificial intelligence evaluation suite for federal agencies to explore, […]