COMMENTARY: How DOGE will use AI to take aim at government contracting
The Department of Government Efficiency could revolutionize federal procurement, but contractors face uncertain future, writes GovSignals CEO Derek Hoyt. President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is both controversial and unavoidable. Politics aside, most people can agree that there is certainly waste in government – time, money and resources. DOGE is intended to address it. Government contractors are […]
Musk’s DOGE efforts pose a ‘constitutional crisis,’ experts warn
Elon Musk has spent the first two weeks of the Trump administration parachuting into government offices, leaving extensive — and some say legally prohibited — changes in his wake. When President Donald Trump moved back into the White House two weeks ago, he set up billionaire Elon Musk to lead the cost-slashing Department of Government Efficiency […]
What Google’s return to defense AI means
More competition in a hot market — and the plain fact that only the Pentagon will set boundaries. Google has discarded its self-imposed ban on using AI in weapons, a step that simultaneously drew praise and criticism, marked a new entrant in a hot field, and underscored how the Pentagon—not any single company—must act as the […]
Booz Allen, AWS forge deeper alliance to speed federal modernization
Their new five-year agreement aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies as the Trump administration pushes efficiency reforms across government. Booz Allen Hamilton’s new partnership with Amazon Web Services is a next step in the evolution of their decade-long partnership. But with the Trump administration’s focus on efficiency, they see the timing as […]
DMI sells part of its commercial portfolio
The OceanSound Partners-backed contractor makes this divestiture following a trio of acquisitions that concentrated on government work. DMI has sold a large piece of its commercial portfolio to another company in a move to sharpen DMI’s focus on technology and managed service offerings for government and certain private sector clients. Encora, a digital engineering services provider, […]
SEWP VI faces single protest over small business concerns
NASA could be delayed in its award of the $60 billion IT product and services contract, which has a proposal due date of Feb. 19. NASA’s SEWP VI solicitation is facing a protest from a small business that says companies like them face tougher requirements than other bidders. That challenge at the Government Accountability Office may […]
Trump administration’s ‘deferred resignation’ deadline blocked until next week
OPM is required to notify all employees who received an initial “deferred resignation” offer by Thursday evening that the deadline for accepting the legally dubious offer has been pushed until Monday. A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to cease all activities aimed at implementing Trump and Elon Musk’s controversial “deferred resignation” […]
Cisco acquires Booz Allen cyber spinout
Booz Allen Hamilton retained a minority stake in SnapAttack, which was started to bring together threat intelligence and mitigation processes. Cisco has completed its acquisition of SnapAttack, a cyber threat hunting software maker that Booz Allen Hamilton stood up as an internal shop in 2020 and then spun out the following year. Booz Allen retained a […]
Peerless Technologies acquires spectrum tech specialist
Peerless is using this transaction to also further expand the research-and-development posture of its innovation center. Peerless Technologies, a government services company focused on cybersecurity and systems engineering, has acquired defense tech outfit Statheros to gain more of a footing in electromagnetic spectrum operations. Founded in 2021, Statheros specializes in applied research-and-development work on radio frequency […]
Leidos wins $149M Air Force IT sustainment contract
Project Night Owl focuses on how the Air Force works in a secure cloud environment based on Microsoft’s Azure offering. Leidos has won a five-year, $148.8 million contract to act as the managed services provider of operations and sustainment support for what the Air Force calls a “major SAP weapon system.” The Defense Department said Friday […]