• OASIS+ Draft RFP hit the streets. Comment deadline ends Dec. 31.
• POTUS to contractors, cut your greenhouse gas emissions: White House wants contractors to abide by Paris Agreement.
• Google public sector CEO shares vision: Karen Dehut preaches about the importance of cloud choice in the federal cloud market.
• Protests! CIO-SP4 hit with nearly 100 company objections: $50B NIH CIO-SP4 contract has been hit with 97 protests so far.
• IoT devices to get new cybersec standards: Agencies have until December to meet new cybersecurity requirements for IoT devices.

DEFENSE & AEROSPACE

ICYMI Snippets

• Breaches of personal data at DOD have doubled since 2015.
• Check out the agenda for activities at the 2022 ISOA Annual Summit agenda.
• DOD’s mysterious, reusable X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida after 908 days in orbit. What was its super-secretive mission?

Defense Contract Awards

• Lockheed awarded $500M deal to replenish rockets.
• AFRL awarded a $72M contract to demonstrate space situational awareness
• Client Solution Architects lands $36.5M naval education, training command contract.
• SAIC wins $757M Army contract for software management services.

Follow the Defense Leaders

• An Army veteran, who arrived in Ukraine in March, has been hired to shore up Ukraine’s northern flank with foreign volunteers.
• After 16 years with the organization, the Command Information Officer (CIO) at Naval Information Warfare Center, has moved on.
• Former CACI exec joins GDIT as VP, GM of Navy Marine Corps programs.

Defense Job Openings

• The Navy needs a Chief Engineer to support training certification missions.
• The Army is looking for a Senior Scientific Technical Manager.
• The Navy is seeking Counsel to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

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INTEL COMMUNITY

How information plays a big role in U.S. strategic competition.

Strategic competition is a long game dating back to the post–World War II era and its revisionist powers that sought to disrupt international order. Strategic competitors gain an advantage when they harness all elements of national power—diplomatic, information, military, and economic—but their success depends on the effective use of information. Read more

Army posts SS notice for Education, Doctrine, and Instruction for Intelligence Efforts.

The Army has posted a sources sought notice for Education, Doctrine, and Instruction for Intelligence Efforts (EDIF-IE) to identify parties interested in supporting EDIF-IE services to support the USA ICOE. The intention is to procure these services on a competitive 8(a) basis. Read more

ICYMI Snippets

• NRO’s Director, Dr. Scolese, has released a RFP for hyperspectral imaging.
• How democratized AI can unlock greater AI-driven value.
• Defense/intelligence agencies still can’t explain UFOs.
• These NSA guidelines can help you defend against software memory safety problems.
• DOD is hiring a director of military intelligence programs and security resources.
• Terran Orbital is seeking a Director of BD for all IC pursuits.

CIVILIAN

Real signatures: that’s so 1990! DOL becomes a digital signature believer.

Department of Labor’s Office of Workers Compensation Program debuts electronic signatures in early 2022 and six months later ditches hard copy signatures. Read more

It’s not Meta in here! VA is hiring to “maximum capacity.” 

The VA’s benefits division is looking to bring several thousand hires onboard to “maximize its capacity,” as it prepares to implement legislation that will make millions of new veterans eligible for VA health care and benefits. More than 145,000 veterans already filed claims under the PACT Act. VBA set a goal of hiring nearly 2,100 claims processors this spring. The first cohort of these hires are onboard at VBA and going through agency training. Read more

ICYMI Snippets

• Newly-released documents show how close FBI was to deploying the Israeli-made Pegasus hacking tool.
• Russian software found in smartphone app used by CDC and US Army. And it looks like the deception was deliberate.
• Meet the fellow who makes sure FEMA arrives at disasters fully prepared: Eric Leckey.
• Hey federal employees! Got ideas about how you think govt. tech can serve the public?

Civilian Contracts Awards

• CDC has awarded a $100M, four-year contract for its CDC-INFO program, providing critical health information to millions of Americans.
• CDC awards Leidos a $7M task with CDC for National Healthcare Safety Network modernizations.

Follow Civilian Leaders

Civilian Job Openings

• VA is hiring a deputy program executive director for its Electronic Health Record Modernization – Integration Office.
• NOAA is looking for a Management and Program Manager Analyst.

M&A CORNER

VTG has acquired Next Rev Technologies LLC.

VTG has acquired Next Rev Technologies LLC, enhancing VTG’s multi-cloud capabilities and adding intelligence community customers to its client base. VTG is a force modernization and digital transformation company that has acquired five companies in five years. Read more

AE Industrial Partners completes majority stake investment in smallsat vendor.

AE Industrial Partners, a venture capital firm and space investor, has completed a majority stake investment in York Space Systems, a maker of small satellite systems founded in 2012. Read more