Defense Digital Service

In today’s Federal Newscast, The Coast Guard said it needs upgraded ships, planes, helicopters and drones to compete in the Arctic.

Brett Goldstein will take the reins sometime this week from founding Defense Digital Service director Chris Lynch.

Lawmakers introduced legislation to publish standards for granting, denying or revoking security clearances.

In today’s Federal Newscast, after the National Coalition for Men sued, a federal district judge ruled in its favor, saying forcing only men to register for the Selective Service is unfair.

The government’s motion indicates DoD has new reasons to suspect JEDI was afflicted by an improper conflict involving Deap Ubhi, who worked for AWS both before and after his employment at the Defense Digital Service.

Pentagon decides to go ahead with another conflict of interest study. That can’t be good.

Oracle says the Defense Department’s JEDI acquisition is fatally flawed, violating numerous procurement and conflict of interest statutes.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is fixing a shortcoming of the acquisition oversight process by using artificial intelligence.

The Pentagon is using its Other Transaction Authority for “nontraditional” contractors to replace the Defense Travel System. But the recipient is a Fortune 500 company.

Industry says the Defense Digital Service is wedded to an approach to move to commercial cloud and the lack of open and transparent discussions is causing concerns.