State Department to launch IT Acquisitions Office

Tyndall Air Force Base, which suffered extreme structural damage from Hurricane Michael's Category 5 winds in October 2018, will get 5G service sometime in early 2020.

The Defense Innovation Unit it looking to the bright minds in Silicon Valley for an alternative cloud security gateway.

GSA awarded 12 spots on the COMET blanket purchase agreement to eight large and four small businesses, one of the latter being national security contractor Sevatec, according to an agency spokesperson.

Govplace won the contract back in July, but it was since protested.

The company submitted a pre-filing notice with the Court of Federal Claims last Friday, according to an AWS spokesperson.

Planning around transitioning agencies to modern grants management systems is already delayed.

The group is working to modernize OPM's Federal Annuity Claims Expert System (FACES) with a new web app and calculator.

The agency will use the CloudForte IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solution from Unisys, an IT company it's done cloud work with before.

The award system is being retired with nine others over time as the General Services Administration streamlines acquisitions through a single beta system.

Vendors want to know what products and companies will be covered by GSA's latest supply chain prohibition aimed at curbing Chinese economic espionage.