Policy
CMMC's final rule has now landed
Several other regulatory steps and Congress' 60-day period to review the defense industrial base's new cybersecurity standard still loom before it takes effect.
Business
Air Force merges ICBM program management offices
The new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate will handle work on the decades-old Minuteman III and the wildly over-budget Sentinel.
Business
How GAO told the Air Force to redo $12B systems integration contract
The dispute over a Sentinel program integration support contract intensifies as BAE Systems and Guidehouse battle for the award, further adding to the Air Force's nuclear missile modernization woes.
Policy
Inside Space Force's budget priorities and spending patterns
In the past 12 months, the youngest service has awarded contracts worth an estimated $11.9 billion.
Policy
Expect new cybersecurity rule in September, DOD tells contractors
The White House appears ready to review the proposed cybersecurity standard for defense companies.
Defense Systems
Progress made in protest for Army's cyber range
The Army is inching closer to resolving a couple protests of its $2.4 billion cyber range support contract, which is welcome news for ManTech.
Defense Systems
DARPA-funded fabric protects against chemical, biologic threats
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing new fabrics and protective equipment that can reduce the risk of chemical and biological threats to service members and responders.
Defense Systems
AFWERX invests in 5G-enabled IoT security
The Air Force’s innovation arm has awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract to Phosphorus Cybersecurity to help build a scalable security infrastructure to support 5G-enabled IoT devices.
Defense Systems
John Garing, former Air Force and DISA exec, dies at 78
The winner of partner site GCN's Hall of Fame award in 2010, Garing continued his government IT career with Suss Consulting and Vion Corp.
Defense Systems
Court denies Perspecta's NGEN protest
Perspecta has held the Next General Enterprise Network contract for 20 years, dating back to when one of its legacy business in EDS won the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract in 2000.
Defense Systems
DARPA scouting for ‘revolutionary’ ideas
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for unconventional approaches that challenge conventional wisdom and have the potential to radically change established practices.
Defense Systems
DISA plans single award for $11.7B IT contract
The Defense Information Services Agency expects to release the solicitation for a potential 10-year, $11.7 billion IT support contract by the end of September with an award expected in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2021.
Defense Systems
DISA plans single award for $11.7B IT contract
The Defense Information Systems Agency is working on the solicitation for an $11.7 IT support contract and as things currently stand, there will be one winner.
Defense Systems
JEDI may be Microsoft's key to global government market
JEDI is a huge contract on its own, but Microsoft also apparently sees its win of the Defense Department's cloud infrastructure contract as a launching pad for similar projects with international governments.
Defense Systems
Perspecta's NGEN protest denied
The Government Accountability Office has denied Perspecta’s challenge of the $7.7 billion Navy NGEN award that went to Leidos.
Defense Systems
DOD's $7.6B cloud email buy heads for redo
Less than a week before a final protest ruling was due, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the General Services Administration are taking another corrective action in their big business software buy for DOD.
Defense Systems
JEDI award gets reconsideration and 120-pause
The Defense Department wants some time to it “reconsider” parts of its decision to award its $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft and has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a 120-day pause.
Defense Systems
JEDI injunction decision hinges on cloud storage definition
Conflicting interpretations of “highly accessible storage” are at the center of a federal judge’s ruling granting Amazon Web Services a preliminary injunction that freezes task orders on the Defense Department’s massive Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative cloud contract.
Defense Systems
Navy awards $57 million to upgrade training program
General Dynamics' IT division has won a $57 million Navy task order training curriculum under the Sailor 2025 Ready Relevant Learning program.
Defense Systems
Pentagon firms 5G experimentation plans
The Pentagon is looking at facilities and use cases for large-scale experimentation and prototyping of 5G applications and spectrum sharing.
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