DHA chooses joint venture for $225M acquisition support contract
The Defense Health Agency also included technical elements into the scope of work for its Contracting and Acquisition Support Services contract. A joint venture owned by Tetra Tech’s Amyx subsidiary and Vivsoft has won a potential five-year, $225 million contract to provide acquisition-related and other administrative support services to the Defense Health Agency. DHA’s Contracting and […]
Anduril, X-Bow and York detail their newest space acquisitions
All three of these buyers have completed capital raises over the past 12 months, including one from the public markets. Anduril The defense technology company has agreed to buy ExoAnalytic Solutions, which operates a network of 400 telescopes that are used to track satellites and other objects in orbit. ExoAnalytic opened for business in 2008 to […]
AI-enabled watch towers set to proliferate along the border
GDIT pitches autonomous station with better sensors, more computing power. The Department of Homeland Security plans to install AI upgrades in 148 of its uncrewed camera towers on the U.S. border this year, and to add another 50 next-generation ones. On Wednesday, GDIT unveiled its pitch for the job: the Relocatable Autonomous Surveillance Tower. GDIT, which […]
What the Anthropic-DOD breakup teaches government contractors
The warning signs were surely there long before the public feud, and versions of this conflict play out in GovCon every year, writes BD expert Nic Coppings. The artificial intelligence model shaping how defense contractors work couldn’t save its own contract. That’s the uncomfortable truth at the center of the Anthropic–Pentagon collapse. A $200 million contract. […]
BTMS grows contract portfolio with Integrity acquisition
BTMS is also using the transaction to expand its cybersecurity and data science offerings. BTMS has made an acquisition to add more defense, security and mission support services. The addition of Integrity Consulting Engineering & Security Solutions adds operational lines of work to BTMS’ offerings in cybersecurity, data science, analytics, and software engineering. Financial terms of the […]
Booz Allen’s venture arm goes across the pond for its newest investment
U.K.-headquartered Hadean focuses on digital wargaming and command-and-control tools for training and simulation initiatives. Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture capital arm for backing startup technology companies has made its first investment outside of the U.S., but still one with an eye toward opportunities in the government market here. Hadean is headquartered in the U.K., London to be […]
NASA seeks extension of SEWP V to Sept. 30
The agency says it needs more time to finish evaluations as well as resolve protests at GAO. Faced with several bid protests and an extremely large number of proposals, NASA is asking for authorization to extend SEWP V a few more months until the end of the fiscal year. Currently, SEWP V expires on April 30 […]
INDOPACOM was all in on Anthropic. Now it’s working to adjust
The administration’s government-wide ban on the company’s AI tools has forced the command to work faster to be “model-neutral.” HONOLULU—“What happens when you concentrate on one [AI] model and all of a sudden that model isn’t available to you?” That’s the reality that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is living right now, its resources and requirements director said […]
IRS starts fast on its search for new business intelligence platform
Interested parties have one more day to respond to this sources sought notice from the tax agency, which is looking to upgrade software it uses to follow the U.S. corporate sector. The Internal Revenue Service has embarked on its search for a new software platform to use in collecting, researching and validating information on corporate and […]
SEWP’s long-tenured leader is calling it a career
Before leaving government, Joanne Woytek is giving herself enough time to see the popular IT contract’s next iteration through protests and into launch. Joanne Woytek, the long-time leader of arguably the most successful procurement program in history, penned a 52-word LinkedIn post to announce she is calling it a career. But that is not a complete […]