Defense Industry
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Four members of the House Armed Services Committee wrote to President Donald Trump that any further delays to the cloud procurement known as JEDI would harm the Pentagon.
July 19, 2019 -
New policies aren't official yet, but defense and intelligence officials say they're designing the newly renamed Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency that's positioned for a more modern era.
July 19, 2019 -
Rick Hill, senior vice president at HumanTouch LLC, argues that DoD needs agility and flexibility and a single cloud approach under JEDI would not give them those features.
July 19, 2019 -
The Court of Federal Claims' brief ruling did not fully explain the rationale behind the decision, but appeared to clear the way for DoD to award the $10 billion contract next month.
July 12, 2019 -
Brent Calhoon, a partner in Baker Tilly’s government contractor advisory services practice, makes the case for why DoD shouldn’t wait for Congress to act on the Section 809 panel recommendations.
July 11, 2019 -
The Professional Services Council, an industry association, asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to limit the type of work Federally-Funded Research and Development Centers can do for DoD.
July 01, 2019 -
The Court of Federal Claims is scheduled to hear oral arguments from government, AWS and Oracle lawyers on July 10 over JEDI, DoD’s $10 billion cloud procurement.
June 28, 2019 -
Justice Department and Amazon Web Services attorneys filed separate responses highlighting what they say are false or misleading claims made by Oracle in its Court of Federal Claims protest.
June 21, 2019 -
A new DoD policy memo demands more data to support the prices the military pays for spare parts. But it only applies to one company.
June 20, 2019 -
As part DoD’s move to shore up its supply chain, the Pentagon is developing with industry and other experts a new cybersecurity maturity model that is borrowing from standards like ISO 9000.
June 17, 2019 -
Leslie Weinstein, an Army Reserve officer and consultant for DoD, explains why the Pentagon should follow other sectors and use experts to ensure vendors are meeting cyber requirements.
June 11, 2019 -
Oracle filed a new motion for its protest of DoD’s JEDI cloud procurement after new details emerged on Amazon Web Service’s job offer to two former officials.
June 07, 2019 -
Tim Greeff, founder and CEO of National Security Technology Accelerator, explains why DoD should use more other transaction authority agreements to develop modern weapons.
May 31, 2019 -
DISA releases a request for information to industry for a government owned, contractor operated approach to back-office IT services and network consolidation and optimization.
May 20, 2019 -
The Pentagon has launched a new data gathering effort to try to detect sole-source vendors who are making excess profits by hiding their cost data from contracting officers.
May 16, 2019
