• How to meet small business contracting goal: With the small business contracting goal growing from 4% to 15% in SY25, here’s some advice.
• Cyber Safety Review Board report coming: Board not waiting for another major event; DHS official says a second report coming soon.
• Agencies behind in IPv6 migration attracting OMB’s attention: 80% FY25 deadline a challenge, according to task force chair
• GSA researching contract to give feds easier small biz tech access: Agency officials want to give agencies easier access to SBIR tech.

DEFENSE & AEROSPACE

ICYMI Snippets

• Acting Pentagon IG can remain in place, a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel finds, at variance from a GAO opinion.
• DLA speaks about lessons learned, as it rolls out a warehouse management system pilot in Corpus Christi, Texas, its first upgrade in 40 years.

Defense Contract Awards

• The Army awarded a $25M contract to Iron Bow of Herndon, Va., for laptops and tablets.
• Dell won a $16.5M contract with the Air Force to provide laptop computers and docking stations at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.

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• Defcon, a modeling and simulation company. has hired the retired four-star general who lead Operation Warp Speed, as its new CEO.
• DOD’s Cyber Crime Center has hired an Air Force investigator as its new leader.

Defense Job Openings

• The Pentagon is hiring a principal deputy executive director, systems engineering and architecture.
• The Pentagon is hiring a director for financial management analysis and operations,

At this event, you will hear top government execs discuss technology trends in the public sector, how they are using emerging technology to drive change, and how your company can better support the top federal agencies.

INTEL COMMUNITY

NGA posts C&T RFI.

NGA in support of the Captioning and Transcription (C&T) program is seeking information on how an interested contractor could support C&T needs. This includes automated captioning of videos and producing written transcripts to support the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community (DHHC), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other agency stakeholders. Responses are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on November 17. Read more

NGA inducts 10 new members into GEOINT Hall of Fame.

V. Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, inducted 10 new members into the GEOINT Hall of Fame, in a ceremony in Springfield, Va. The ceremony honored six members of the Class of 2020, including two posthumously, and four members of the Class of 2021. Read more

ICYMI Snippets

• Shadow Dragon, a provider of OSINT, unique datasets, and APIs to enable sourcing, collecting, and sorting publicly available information in investigations, and Siren, a provider of investigative intelligence analytics, have formed a strategic partnership..

IC Contract Awards

• US-headquartered mobility solutions provider Social Mobile has secured a contract to develop a next-generation 5G mobile solution for the US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).

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IC Job Openings.

CIVILIAN

USCIS hiring director of user experience.

U.S. Customs and Immigration Service is out ahead of the pack once again, hiring a for a newly-created position: director of user experience. USCIS is the same agency that has 95% of its applications on the cloud and adopted zero trust security before it was cool. Read more

NIH acquisition official clears air on CIO-SP4 downselect.

RIcky Clark, deputy director at the NIH organization responsible for the CIO-SP4 contract, is trying to clear the air after vendors who didn’t make the cut in the recent CIO-SP4 downselect complained about various issues, including not receiving debriefs and the procurement favoring small business with large business partners. Read more

NOAA targets Summer 2023 for EHR rollout.

The Oracle Cerner Electronic Health Records Modernization rollout should occur at NOAA in the Summer 2023. NOAA would join the Coast Guard, DOD, and VA in deploying the Oracle Cerner EHR system through the program. Read more

ICYMI Snippets

• National Archives has digitized more than 200M pages of government records, out of its goal of 500M pages by 2026.
• NIST IG warns agencies not to “just trust” software vendors’ security assurances.

Civilian Contract Awards

• The Executive Office of the President has awarded a task order worth up to $16.9M task order to Empower AI for critical IT support services.
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Civilian Job Openings

• VA is hiring an associate executive director, strategic acquisition management initiatives.
• VA is hiring a deputy chief information security officer, information security policy and strategy.
• USDA is hiring an associate CIO.

GOVCON M&A CORNER

ShadowDragon and Siren form a strategic partnership.

ShadowDragon, a provider of open source intelligence (OSINT), unique datasets, and APIs that reduce the friction of sourcing, collecting, and sorting publicly available information in modern investigations, announced a strategic partnership with Siren, a leading provider of Investigative Intelligence analytics. Read more

With a healthy contract backlog, Booz Allen increases its revenue growth forecast.

Booz Allen Hamilton has added almost 800 new workers in the last year and ended its most recent quarter with a backlog of $31.8B in contracts, a 9.8% increase from a year before. The company has $2.3B in second quarter revenue. The company raised its full-year forecast of revenue growth to a range of 8 to 10 percent from a previous forecast of 5 to 8 percent growth. Read more