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, […]
Woven Solutions gets private equity backing
The three-year-old company develops cloud-native applications to help agencies in their IT modernization and enterprise tech deployment efforts. Woven Solutions, a technology integrator focused on the national security community, has accepted an investment from the private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners with an eye toward ramping up solution development work. Founded in 2022, Woven develops cloud-native […]
Air Force seeks prime for Ukraine defense ERP implementation
The service branch is looking to help Ukraine’s military modernize how it manages resources. The Air Force is looking for a prime contractor to implement a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system for Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. The contract covers the installation of SAP’s S/4 Hana platform and related services to create a defense resources management system […]
KBR wins $3.6B NASA health, human performance contract
The company keeps a role it has held since 2015 in helping NASA better understand health risks that come with spaceflight. KBR has won a potential 10-year, $3.6 billion contract to continue its role as a provider of professional services that aid in NASA’s efforts to mitigate potential health risks in future human spaceflight missions. The […]
Leidos takes aim at maritime autonomy
The company wants to make waves in the surface and undersea drone markets amongst startup competitors. Leidos is a longtime government contractor known for IT—as well as missiles and airport body scanners. But CEO Thomas Bell said the company is poised for a breakaway in maritime autonomy. “We’re not seen as at the vanguard of this, […]