IT services portion of $3.5B Navy NGEN recompete goes live

Leaders update on TMF progress as money starts to hit their agencies.

The agency is proposing a single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to support the Department of Defense Mobility Classified Capability (DMCC) programs for secret and top secret capabilities.

Emily Murphy’s plan for GSA is simple in its definition: streamlined processes leveraged by technology to uncover new efficiencies and resources.

The bureau is nixing its original plan to hold a full and open competition.

"Microsoft, don’t bid on JEDI," company employees wrote in a blog post on the site Medium.

Jose Arrieta minced no words about the ReImagine HHS initiative, saying it is the wave of a not-too-distant future.

The Pentagon's No. 2 called on the defense community to support the brand-new command as it works to modernize the military's approach to great-power competition.

The company is the second to file a pre-award protest against the $10 billion contract solicitation.

The report lays the blame on "nascent understanding" of cybersecurity by key officials and says the Pentagon has only recently set its priorities to meet the challenge.

The tech giant removed itself from competition for the DoD’s hotly contested cloud contract, citing ethical concerns about the use of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft’s cloud computing platform will expand its government services in early 2019, including providing Secret region capabilities for the DOD.

The team will be built around seven "core team" companies: Leidos, Guidehouse, Accenture, Henry Schein Inc., AbleVets LLC, MicroHealth and ProSource360.

Agency officials offered details on the $152.2 million in contracts they recently awarded as part of a new research & development pilot program.

The Department of Homeland Security is redesigning the technology accelerator it uses to fund and help commercialize new solutions.

The new SIN will offer a range of automated and bot-technology solutions through a list of more than 4,400 vendors.

White House officials are betting big that the GEAR Center will provide a fresh avenue for small, innovative companies stymied by the acquisition process.

“Today’s announcement of the NewPay awardees is an important step in our Shared Services journey as part of the President’s Management Agenda,” Federal CIO Suzette Kent said.

CSRA, now a subsidiary of General Dynamics IT, will provide commercial cloud capabilities from multiple services providers, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, to the Navy at Impact Levels 2, 4 and 5.

AT&T won the first of the two awards worth $87.4 million through an other transaction agreement (OTA). Microsoft received the second, another OTA worth $34.4 million.

The service sponsored HACKtheMACHINE this past weekend in Seattle to gather the best and brightest in tech to take a look at some of the Navy's biggest digital challenges.

In a proposal released Monday, the agency is planning to update the Special Item Number it uses to sell cloud services to agencies.

AFWERX is running a challenge to get ideas that will shape the second iteration of Pilot Training Next, an initiative designed to help the service train new aviators faster but with the same quality.

Officials said they created a new council to find new acquisition methods for IT modernization, supply chain operations and cost efficiencies.

When agencies buy commercial capabilities, Bezos said, they "keep improving kind of ‘auto-magically’ without any effort."

There have been strides in improving federal expertise for tech acquisitions, a new report says, but the workforce still "faces skill gaps."

NGEN-R is set to be one of the largest federal IT contracts in 2018.

HHS hopes to demonstrate how all three together could streamline its buying power by November.

The agency plans to begin accepting bids for a five-year contract to manage the IT and data services of its VistA system as early as Friday.

As Congress debates whether to fund the TMF in 2019, its board members are already weighing new IT modernization projects.

Ongoing efforts at IT modernization are fueling a potential 32 percent surge in federal cloud spending in fiscal 2018, according to Bloomberg Government.

Empowering leadership, improving cross-team alignment and sharing stories of success are just a few of her early guideposts.

The agency selected three contractors to help develop an IT system that will analyze the performance of drugs and vaccines on the market.

The department recently joined the trend of federal bug bounty programs, which boost cybersecurity resources in ways that traditional methods probably can't.

John Zangardi wants to use the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract as a vehicle to help overhaul the agency’s aging IT infrastructure and has established an EIS program office to oversee the transformation.

The Fairfax, Virginia, technology company secured the Group E contract of the CDM DEFEND program, ManTech officials said. Nine federal agencies are involved.

The bill seeks to codify the Department of Homeland Security’s signature cybersecurity program and provide new strategy and technology.

The Pentagon has extended the deadline for proposals for its $10 billion JEDI commercial cloud acquisition by about three weeks.

Senators want to ensure that "spending in the last quarter of this fiscal year is not wasteful or abusive."

The agency wants to acquire new validation services for federal contractors and grantees.

Mobile devices are providing some unique challenges for CDM officials, who are building cyberdefenses against a wave of variables.

DISA wants a contractor to help it save time and money moving agencies to milCloud2.0.

The FBI is looking for tools to deal with cases where suspected criminals intentionally or unintentionally alter their fingerprints.

Op-Ed: Former U.S. Chief Acquisition Officer Anne Rung believes that bringing the simplicity of the consumer online buying experience to government customers will improve transparency and compliance.

The secretary of Veterans Affairs said “from here on out, DOD and VA will be joined from the hip" on EHR implementation.

USCIS wants a cybersecurity-as-a-service solution to work across its systems and in multiple cloud environments.

The agency pledged $25 million to help fund foundries that will produce components essential to advancing the development of quantum technology.

The cloud authorization program shuffled its leadership structure Friday with a spate of internal promotions of longtime executives.

OMB knows it’s not easy to bring new ideas to the federal government, so that’s why it wants to set up its new research center outside of it.

Olson will oversee GSA's technology acquisition arm, including its IT Modernization Centers of Excellence initiative.

Booz Allen Hamilton secured its second CDM contract of the year and the largest federal task order in its history.

The agency wants to leverage data to track and understand world events in real time.

The Department of Defense’s key agency for combating weapons of mass destruction obtained a series of core IT services in the potential five-year contract.

Zielinski has seen a quick rise as an IT acquisition leader at GSA.

Continuing resolutions, the weapon of choice for financing the government for the past dozen years, could be a way for the TMF to sidestep appropriators.

Patient-reported outcomes are "vital" to understanding patient needs, but we still don't have a good way to gather this data.

Investments are undergirded by a surge in IT spending, with 14 percent growth between 2016 and 2017.

The agency put out a request for information this week.

Leidos secured a bridge contract to provide Air Force and DOD installations in the National Capital Region with IT and telecommunications services.

Op-ed: Bob Osborn believes if OMB wants to successfully move agencies to the cloud, a quantum leap in philosophy is needed.

Working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, DISA issued a request for information asking for industry feedback on the types of metrics federal agencies should include in commercial cloud SLAs.