"When you think about doing the hard things that SDA is charged with doing here, you have to recognize that it's going to take time," Jon Ludwigson said.
Gaddafi Ismail, the president of De Lune Corp., explains why contractors are an important piece in keeping the federal mission moving when disruption hits.
Two vendors have submitted protests to GAO after OPM eliminated them in the final round of the competition for the 10-year contract.
"As we move forward, there's going to be, I imagine, some pushback legally from Anthropic to the Pentagon," Stephanie Kostro said.
President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said Friday he was designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a move that could prevent U.S. military vendors from working with the company. Trump’s comments Friday came just before the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of its AI technology or face consequences. Anthropic says it will challenge the supply risk designation in court.
Defense officials in the Trump administration also warned they could designate Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, as a supply chain risk.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wants to shift away from a heavy contractor workforce, and instead hire and train feds to deliver better outcomes.
MAPS is duplicative of a host of existing governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) vehicles for professional and IT services.
Leo Garciga, the Army’s chief information officer, said the move toward enterprise services is changing the culture of system development to be more adaptable.
Administrator Jared Isaacman said poor leadership and decision-making at Boeing led to Starliner’s troubles.
GSA picked the first set of 43 vendors for its Alliant 3 IT services GWAC, while State emerged out of the protest process to finalize 48 EVOLVE awards.
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"Companies are deciding federal work is just too hard, they're not getting paid money they should be reimbursed for, they're pivoting," Stephanie Kostro said.
GSA kicked off market research for two new broad-based IT contracts, but only certain vendors had access to the details and were able to respond.
