Army wants better, faster defenses against chemical and biological threats
An updated broad agency announcement covers everything from Ebola vaccines to radiation countermeasures, as well as how to use artificial intelligence The Army has issued an update to its broad agency announcement looking for research-and-development efforts that can more quickly bring medical solutions to the field. The BAA was first issued in 2022 and the new […]
KBR loses $1.8 billion NASA contract challenge to Ascend JV
KBR challenged the award twice, but the Government Accountability Office upholds NASA’s choice of the the Amentum-Aerodyne joint venture. KBR has lost its challenge of a $1.8 billion NASA contract that went to a competitor. The company was the incumbent on the contract known as COSMOS to support command-and-control systems for space vehicles involved in programs […]
DISA, Carahsoft enter $970M VMware cloud software pact
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Carahsoft established the blanket purchase agreement to be a single point of entry for other Pentagon agencies. The Defense Information Systems Agency and Carahsoft have entered into a new five-year, $970 million blanket purchase agreement that brings together several contracts for Broadcom software into one pact. Carahsoft is an authorized […]
T2S books $600M DOD cyber contract
The Cybertron contract focuses on threat hunting, Zero Trust architectures, key management infrastructure development and artificial intelligence. T2S Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $600 million contract to develop and deliver new cybersecurity technologies across the entire Defense Department. DOD established the Cybertron contract to focus on threat hunting, Zero Trust architectures, key management infrastructure development […]
The hidden infrastructure challenge of the Genesis Mission
COMMENTARY | AI ambition without infrastructure alignment is just aspiration. When the White House launched the Genesis Mission, much of the attention focused on its ambition: a Manhattan Project–scale effort to accelerate scientific discovery through artificial intelligence. What deserves just as much scrutiny is the timeline: 270 days. That deadline fundamentally changes the nature of the […]