Don’t wait: GovCon must prepare now for a potential shutdown
Congress remains deadlocked and Sept. 30 is a week away. That means contractors should dust off shutdown plans and take immediate action on invoices, contracts and cash flow. The market careens toward a government shutdown at the end of the month and plans, advice and guidance for how to operate during one are getting dusted off. […]
Fresh protest hits NGA’s Clover vehicle
A new challenge focuses on evaluation criteria rather than registration issues that derailed earlier awards for the $940 million professional services contract. Unsurprisingly, the protest saga surrounding the $940 million Clover contract continues following the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s decision to make new awards. This time around, the protest has nothing to do with the registration technicalities […]
Trump budget office is hiding federal spending information, ethics nonprofit alleges
Federal courts have ordered the Office of Management and Budget to publish information about how agency funding is disbursed, but Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington contends that officials are using footnotes to obfuscate disclosure. A progressive good government nonprofit has accused the Trump administration of not fully complying with a court order to publish […]
KBR plans spinoff of government business
This new, independent publicly-traded company would hit the market by mid-to-late 2026. KBR’s board of directors has approved a plan to spinoff its government services segment following a multi-year strategy to build up that part of the business. The unit currently called Mission Technology Solutions is poised to become a new, independent publicly-traded company by mid-to-late 2026 […]
NIST seeks contractors to build AI testing datasets for security and safety verification
The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants curated datasets to test systems across cybersecurity, criminal misuse prevention and language translation capabilities. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the early stages of developing a contract to access multiple data sets to test and verify artificial intelligence systems. NIST’s U.S. Center for AI Standards […]
Redhorse moves Klemm up to CEO post
Klemm’s two-decade career in the market covers national security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data exploitation. Redhorse Corp. has promoted Noah Klemm to the chief executive post, less than a year after the digital transformation and data science services provider elevated him to president. Klemm will continue to oversee all aspects of Redhorse’s strategy and […]
Coast Guard picks 3 for $700M tech lifecycle pact
The Coast Guard is using this blanket purchase agreement to bring together its IT support structure and business practices into a single model. The Coast Guard has awarded three companies positions on a five-year, $700 million blanket purchase agreement for lifecycle support services across the agency’s systems and applications portfolio. AttainX, VivSoft Technologies, and a GoHPT-ISHPI […]
Navy awards Microsoft sole-source cloud contract, admits vendor lock-in risk
The Naval Sea Systems Command believes switching cloud providers would require a “re-engineering” of the solution from the ground up. The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Microsoft a sole-source contract for cloud computing services under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program. While the dollar value of the new three-year contract has been redacted, NAVSEA admits […]
As shutdown looms, federal agencies have no public plans for one
How the Trump administration would handle a shutdown and who it plans to furlough remains a mystery. Federal agencies are just eight days away from seeing their funding lapse and having to shutter their offices, though which employees will be sent home remains unknown. Typically, agencies publicly post their “contingency plans” in advance of a potential […]
NGA re-awards $940M Clover contract following protest battle
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency tries again at making awards to five small businesses after a judge’s ruling that NGA could not amend Sam.gov registration requirements. After weathering several protests tied to registration technicalities, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has again awarded five companies seats on its $940 million Clover procurement. NGA uses Clover to buy acquisition support services […]