GSA, Amazon sign onto new centralized cloud pact
The General Services Administration’s newest agreement under its OneGov procurement strategy also includes education and training services for employees on how to use the cloud-based tools. The General Services Administration and Amazon’s cloud business have reached a new agreement on making the company’s hosting infrastructure and related technologies available through OneGov, the agency’s procurement centralization initiative. […]
Defense tech office cuts staff down to 40
The cuts to the Defense Technical Information Center are intended to refocus it on “its core statutory mission” according to a Pentagon spokesperson. The Department of Defense announced staff cuts within the agency’s Defense Technical Information Center — which it initially announced as the Defense Technology Information Center — on Monday, marking another in a series […]
OpenAI to give federal agencies ChatGPT access at $1 per year
The General Services Administration signs this new OneGov pact to help agencies adopt advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the Trump administration’s push for AI leadership. The General Services Administration has signed a new partnership agreement with OpenAI for the company’s ChatGPT offering, a move the agency says supports President Trump’s AI Action Plan. ChatGPT Enterprise […]
How Guidehouse’s $1.5B AI investment will bring others in too
Building out a partner ecosystem and training Guidehouse’s 18,000 employees on using artificial intelligence tools are key to how the company will work with clients to adopt them. Guidehouse arguably has to make a big bet on artificial intelligence as a key cog of its strategy because AI is changing the world, rapidly, in ways that […]
GSA picks Genesis Consulting to check IBM’s travel system work
Genesis’ contract will focus on the transition as agencies migrate to a new government-wide travel management platform. IBM may be tasked with consolidating all of the federal government’s travel systems into the new Go.gov platform, but another company will be checking Big Blue’s work. The General Services Administration has extended an independent validation and verification services […]
Army seeks AI solutions to manage complex airspace operations
A new request for information calls for both immediate “fight tonight” capabilities and long-term machine learning tools to ease the burden on commanders. The Army is looking for ways to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to manage airspace operations and situation awareness. In a new request for information posted Wednesday, the Army describes various pressures on […]
NASA starts 2nd on-ramp for $476M Earth data contract
A total of 15 providers are involved in the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program, which NASA uses to support its Earth science research and application activities. NASA has opened a new proposal window in search of more companies to become part of a potential $476 million contract the agency uses to buy commercially available Earth observation […]
Leidos CEO: cost, efficiency conversations with customers are shifting
In talking with Wall Street, Tom Bell says the customer dialogue tide is turning from “simply slash-and-burn” and more toward what the longer term should look like. Aggressiveness and heavy-handedness represent some of the ways to describe the Trump administration’s push for contract cuts and other categories of savings during its first six months. The Department […]
GSA adds global AI providers to the schedule
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are now available to agencies through a single source for buying artificial intelligence capabilities. The General Services Administration has added Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT offerings to the Multiple Award Schedule program as part of efforts to make it easier for agencies to buy artificial intelligence tools. MAS is where agencies go to […]
MetTel secures $54M VA award after year-long protest battle
The company will modernize 15,000 telephone lines across 1,875 locations under this task order. It has taken nearly a year, but MetTel has finally prevailed in its battle to secure a $54 million Veterans Affairs Department task order for modernizing VA’s telephone infrastructure. Under the contract, the company will upgrade 15,000 landlines across 1,875 VA locations by […]