SecuriGence will continue to provide multi-network support services to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s information technology directorate under a $93.8 million task order modification. This award brings the cumulative face value of the MNSS task order from $177.5 million to $271.2 million and extends the company’s work pe...
The General Services Administration is set to exercise the five-year option term for the Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract to provide federal buyers continued access to information technology platforms and services from industry. Agencies will continue to gain access to cybersecurity capabilities and other services from a pool of vetted ...
By Mick Fox, Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile In many ways, the contracts team within an aerospace and defense or government contracting organization plays the role of “air traffic control” for each federal contract — from those they consider pursuing (pre-flight), to those they win and manage (execution), to contract close-out (flight plan...
The General Services Administration has released the final requests for proposals for six contracts comprising the follow-on One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle program. GSA said Friday OASIS+ is composed of multiagency contracts for the acquisition of complex non-information technology services from the private sector: unrestri...
The General Services Administration has issued an interim security policy directing employees and contractors to limit the use of generative artificial intelligence systems that work with large language models from the GSA network and equipment owned by the government. GSA cited risks that LLMs, which train on public data sources and inputted data, ...
Trish Eknes, former vice president of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, has transitioned to a new role as VP and deputy operations manager of enterprise and cyber solutions portfolio at the Reston, Virginia-based government contractor, Forum reported Wednesday. She oversees efforts to deliver information technology and cyber services to the...
The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have issued an interim rule prohibiting the use of TikTok by federal contractors. A Federal Register notice published Friday says the policy amends the Federal Acquisition Regulation to ban the video-sharing application or successor apps developed by ByteDance on certain equipment ...
The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration have agreed to provide more contracting opportunities for 8(a) contractors and facilitate the use of the Multiple Award Schedule for agency customers under an updated partnership agreement for the program. GSA said Tuesday it is collaborating with SBA to create a new 8(a) pool...
As modernization efforts sweep all areas of the federal government, obstacles previously hidden within legacy acquisition processes have revealed themselves, illuminating the need for a more productive approach. The public sector has acknowledged the demand for innovative new methods, and in a climate where industry technology is more influent...
Software as a service company Exiger has acquired supply chain risk management platform vendor Ion Channel. Exiger said Tuesday that it will add the acquired company’s technology offering to a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified SaaS platform that contains information on 16.8 million unique supply chains. Before the acq...
