What corporate slogans tell us about the Top 100
In this analysis by marketing and communications expert Joyce Bosc, she looks at the taglines of the Top 100 and tracks on companies and the market is changing. Every year, Washington Technology publishes its ranking of the Top 100 government contractors, based on an analysis of federal spending on IT, systems integration, telecommunications, professional services and […]
WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on Uber’s federal pact and procurement centralization
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for all GovExec publications including WT, jumps in to help connect the rideshare giant’s agreement with the General Services Administration and the agency’s agenda for reforming government contracting. Uber is the newest example of a consumer technology company entering into a government-wide arrangement with the General Services Administration, which negotiated the pact […]
Booz Allen’s AI blueprint for customers and the company itself
In talking with Wall Street, Booz Allen’s chief operating officer gives an overview of how the company is using artificial intelligence in its push to return the civil business to growth and for internal functions related to talent. Booz Allen Hamilton has long made automation and artificial intelligence a core component of its technology strategy, which […]
Coast Guard shuts the door on $500M logistics recompete
The Business and Logistics Management Support Services contract was to be a multiple-award small business vehicle. No word yet on what will replace it, if anything. After working on the contract for almost a year-and-a-half, the Coast Guard has outright cancelled its $500 million Business and Logistics Management Support Services procurement. The Coast Guard’s SAM.gov notice on Thursday […]
Pentagon will ‘open the door’ to more companies for next major cloud contract
The Pentagon’s tech chief said JWCC Next will look a little different than its $9 billion predecessor. The Defense Department’s sequel to the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract it awarded in 2022 will target more than the four major hyperscale cloud service providers — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle — that won […]
Pentagon halts $15B Advana recompete draft solicitation
DOD was previously looking to bring in new vendors to support its Advana data-analytics platform through a potential 10-year, $15 billion Advancing Artificial Intelligence Multiple Award Contract. The Pentagon on Wednesday abruptly canceled a draft solicitation to compete its Advana platform, the enterprise data and analytics system run by the department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence […]
SES closes $3.1B acquisition of Intelsat
The completion of the move also brings a new CEO for the government business, who is staying with the organization after being in the same role for Intelsat. Fifteen months after announcing their plans, SES has closed its $3.1 billion acquisition of Intelsat and appointed David Broadbent as CEO for the combined company’s U.S. government subsidiary. SES Space […]
Navy chooses 7 for $240M training support contract
Awardees will aid the Navy’s largest shore command, which bases 24,000 uniformed and civilian personnel around the world. Seven companies have won positions on a potential five-and-a-half year, $240 million contract to provide products and services to support the Navy’s training programs. Navy officials received 31 bids in total for the contract that covers an initial five-year […]
GovCIO to acquire Iron Bow’s telehealth subsidiary
GovCIO will inherit a $1.4 billion Veterans Affairs Department contract and has plans for further software and artificial intelligence investments in that program. GovCIO has agreed to acquire a subsidiary of Iron Bow Technologies that helps the Veterans Affairs Department run a telehealth program serving approximately 4 million constituents. SoldierPoint Digital Health is the prime contractor […]
Trump signs 3 executive orders to advance AI
The orders mirror tenants outlined in the administration’s National AI Action Plan released earlier Wednesday. President Donald Trump signed three new executive orders on Wednesday evening, praising the current U.S. artificial intelligence landscape while pledging to leverage federal power to make the country an “AI export powerhouse.” Taken together, the three executive orders — signed just […]