VA’s $60B T4NG2 vehicle enters new phase as 26 protests remain open
Three former protesters now hold positions on the Veterans Affairs Department’s main IT contract, leaving the remaining challengers with a choice to either amend their complaints or walk away. Some big decisions are ahead for the remaining protesters wanting a seat on the Veterans Affairs Department’s $60 billion T4NG2 contract. A federal judge has accepted VA’s corrective […]
Energy, NVIDIA and Dell unveil new planned supercomputer
The latest public-private sector collaboration brings the new Doudna supercomputer to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California to pursue advancements across emerging tech and scientific fields. BERKELEY, Calif. — The public and private sectors have once again come together to support a new “game-changing” supercomputing installation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing […]
VA-based DOGE associate gets ‘the boot’ after publicly discussing his work
Sahil Lavingia detailed in a personal blog how the reality of hunting inefficiencies at the Department of Veterans Affairs was not what he had expected. A former associate of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he was removed from DOGE after an interview where he discussed his work was published earlier this month. Sahil Lavingia […]
ManTech’s FBI protest once again falls short
The Government Accountability Office dismisses the challenge to return-to-office requirements and denies complaints about the evaluation. The sixth time was not a charm for ManTech International in its battle with Leidos for a $137.7 million contract to support the FBI with digital and IT services. Leidos first won the contract in March 2023. Several protests and corrective […]
Pentagon heightens scrutiny on IT, management consulting contracts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s newest directive for the department zeroes in on providers of “system IT integration, implementation, or advisory services.” The Defense Department is under a new edict to lower the number of IT consulting and management services contracts as part of a larger push to take on more of that work in-house. In a memo […]
Top Democrats in Congress decry White House ‘lack of transparency’ in spending plans
The lack of detailed information about how exactly the Trump administration is spending funding approved by Congress has come up during several Appropriations Committee hearings during the last month. Two top Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to detail exactly how it’s spending money that Congress approved earlier this year for government operations. House […]
The acquisition rule (re)writers really want you to have your say
Industry will get visibility into and be able to weigh in on the efforts by the GSA, DOD and NASA to reform the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The federal government team responsible for overhauling the rules that govern how agencies buy $1 trillion in goods and services does look at the comments they receive on what they are doing. […]
Lockheed pitches pilot-optional F-35
The company is hoping the Pentagon will buy into plans to “supercharge” the F-35. Lockheed Martin plans to develop a version of the F-35 that can fly without a pilot, according to the company’s CEO—one of many upgrades the company is pitching for the program after it lost the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance competition. […]
Why visibility matters in GovCon, even in uncertain times
From defense contractors to systems integrators, companies that communicate clearly will emerge as tomorrow’s leaders, writes marketing guru Kristina Messner. After more than three decades in the GovCon space, I’ve seen the industry shift from one extreme to another — from operating in near-invisibility to cautiously engaging in digital-age storytelling. But today, in the midst of […]
SBA declares tribal and Alaska Native programs not affected by Trump’s DEI rollback
The Small Business Administration’s general counsel responded to concerns raised by the Native American Contractors Association. The Small Business Administration has declared that President Trump’s executive order rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government does not apply to tribally-owned and Alaska Native Corporations. A May 20 memo written by SBA General Counsel Wendell Davis […]