The U.S. Army is turning its attention to artificial intelligence (AI) to help the contracting workforce which is facing a significant increase in workload, an Army official said this week. […]
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By leveraging AI technologies, the Department of Defense (DoD) can streamline and accelerate procurement timelines, thereby fostering innovation from a wide range of businesses traditionally overlooked in defense contracting, according to a Pentagon official. […]
As it looks to modernize its software procurement process, the U.S. Army is setting up a digital center of excellence for contracting as well as building a “cell” that can offer expertise specific to large software contracts, according to Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leonel Garciga. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded four companies a spot on a new $794.1 million multi-vendor contract to support the agency’s research and development (R&D) services and directorate, the GEOINT agency announced on Jan. 26. […]
A new finalized proposed rule gives the Department of Defense (DoD) the authority to acquire commercial products and services using general solicitation competitive procedures known as a “commercial solutions opening” (CSO), according to an Aug. 17 notice posted to the Federal Register. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced it is extending its already relaxed policies around economic price adjustment (EPA) contract clauses through September 30. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded Lumen Technologies a $223 million contract to provide secure, mission-critical communications services to the Department of Defense (DoD). […]
Defense contractors are not required to disclose their cybersecurity effort and waiting on them to voluntarily do so has left gaps in security, a top defense cyber official said on Nov. 16 at Politico’s Defense Summit. […]
The U.S. Army Enterprise Service Desk (AESD) has awarded a $757 million contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to continue providing software development and management services. […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced a bill May 25 that aims to address potential conflicts of interest within the Federal contracting community. An amended version of the bill was reported favorably out of committee and heads to the full Senate for possible consideration. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched a new one-stop shop contracting website, called Pathfinder, for those looking to sell to or innovate with VA. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that it boosted its Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 goal for small disadvantaged business (SDB) contracting to 21 percent, more than a four-fold increase from the government-wide statutory goal of five percent in FY2021. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has committed to increasing the number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2022, which ends Sept. 30., according to a press release. […]
Arlington, Va.-based Falconwood has won a $240 million task order from the U.S. Navy for a range of tech-focused work, the company announced. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded artificial intelligence (AI) application software company C3 AI a $500 million contract to deliver products and services for AI-enabled modeling and simulation, C3 AI announced Dec. 9. […]
The U.S. Air Force released a solicitation for proposals for its $4.79 billion NOVASTAR contract vehicle for services in research, development, and sustainment of hardware and software capabilities to support intelligence production requirements of the service branch, Department of Defense (DoD), and the intelligence community. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) wants small businesses to be aware of subcontracting opportunities that could lead to larger Federal contracts. […]
If 2019 is any indication, Federal contracting in 2020 promises to be a very interesting year. Federal contracting has experienced steady growth – an average of 6 percent year-over-year – for the last five years according to Bloomberg Government. Spending jumped 9 percent in 2018, representing a 50 percent uptick from previous years. […]
Due to poor contract management controls, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been overpaying contractors, and has had inadequate invoice reviews for noncompliant invoices that were undetected, a new EPA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found. […]
The GSA is concerned that current cloud procurement methods are leading to confusion and a lack compliance with FedRAMP requirements. To curb the contract discrepancies, the GSA released a new RFI seeking industry input to “identify examples of preferred contract language agencies should incorporate to convey FedRAMP requirements in their solicitations,” according to a FedRAMP blog. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report calling for better management of Federal IT service contracts at the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the General Services Administration. The Oct. 22 GAO report follows a similar directive issued last week by the Office of Management and […]