House passes agency software licensing bill

The department is looking at the prices of replacement products for its 540,000-user enterprise stack. But with a short turnaround time, Microsoft likely still has an inside track.

Also included in this listing: the Navy's Task Force 59 founder starts a new role and AT&T's chief operating officer takes up a board seat at a major federal IT provider.

The tuck-in acquisition adds public key infrastructure and credential management tools already embedded across the intelligence community and Defense Department.

Christian Robles, who reports on technology policy and service delivery at Nextgov/FCW, jumps in to detail the federal government’s newest set of centralized artificial intelligence tech agreements and other key storylines.

Amy Gilliland's nine-year run as GDIT president began with the integration of CSRA and included the rollout of a new tech strategy.

A joint venture of Amentum and Science Applications International Corp. has two decades of incumbency, but a challenger is questioning the fairness of the Justice Department's evaluation of recompete bids.

This roundup of transactions across the landscape also includes three venture rounds and two "SPAC" arrangements to take companies public.

The space agency set up this blanket purchase agreement to move away from 10 separate center-level contracts.

File your comments but expect some version of the proposal to take effect in 2027. The best players are already mapping which contracts will flip to set-asides, studying their new competitors and recruiting teammates, writes Kevin Cooley, CEO of Resource Management Concepts.

The language includes changes some industry groups have requested through a public comment period and will go into effect Oct. 19.