• Position yourself to secure a seat on the $60.7B VA T4NG2 IDIQ!: Join this Feb 7 event for a breakdown of the T4NG2 Draft RFP.
• Tune in to the latest happenings with the Inflation Reduction Act: This podcast covers the Infrastructure Bill and Inflation Reduction Act in 2023.
• For R&D, national AI task force says “give us more MONEY!!” It wants $2.6B from Congress for a roadmap for the future of AI research.
• Lawmakers to GAO: pls check if contractors are working for China: Lawmakers are wary of COIs over firms working for Chinese & US govts.

DEFENSE & AEROSPACE

ICYMI Snippets

• Watch: Valiant’s CEO talks next-generation training and readiness in the military.
• DOD’s Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive gets an update.
• Cost, storage, security, breadth are main challenges posed by MPE & JADC2 Integration.
• Here’s your chance to be a part of the Wargaming challenge with Navy! (a sources sought)
• Raytheon is realigning its four businesses segments into three.

Defense Contract Awards

• Textron gets a potential $677M Navy aircraft production deal.
• Lockheed books $320M contract mod for F-35 engineering services.
• Amentum wins $35M contract mod for Army contractor logistics support.
• Teletronics Technology (DBA Curtiss-Wright) awarded $287M AF contract for supplies and services to sustain the High-Speed Data Acquisition System.
• Polysentry secures AF SBIR award for classification platform.

Follow the Defense Leaders

• LinQuest’s COO takes the helm as the company’s prez, CEO.
• Former CIO of HII’s mission technologies business promoted to HII EVP, CIO.

Defense Job Openings

• Take to the skies as an Army Supervisory Aircraft Pilot.
• Navy Systems Management Activity seeks a Director, Contracts.

INTEL COMMUNITY

Despite what you may think, ChatGPT probably won’t replace human analysis. At least, not anytime soon.

The CIA is using AI and machine learning to parse through data and alert officials to global developments, but one of the agency’s top analysts doesn’t see ChatGPT or any other bots giving the president’s daily brief anytime soon. Read more

IARPA plans its ReSCIND Proposers Day.

IARPA will hold a Proposers Day for the Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) program — Registration is due by noon Pacific on February 13. The program aims to improve cybersecurity by developing a new set of cyberpsychology-informed defenses that leverage attackers’ human limitations, such as innate decision-making biases and cognitive vulnerabilities. Read more

ICYMI Snippets

• Microsoft Office 365 is now available to customers at secret classification.
• NSA and partners release guidance on securing remote monitoring & management software.
• State Department seeks a Supervisory Foreign Affairs Officer.

CIVILIAN

Commerce Department’s deputy secretary huddles with CEOs to talk traffic coordination in space.

The deputy secretary at the Department of Commerce met with CEOs of nine space situational awareness companies to seek ideas on how the industry could build and implement a Traffic Coordination System for Space. The free space traffic management service is one of the government’s initiatives outside the DOD to maintain U.S. leadership in the global SSA market. Read more

GSA introduces its pilot federal co-working space.

OPM plans to launch a federal cyber workforce dashboard to provide agencies with a better tool to address workforce needs, according to a demo of the proposed dashboard held during a recent NIST webinar. Read more

OPM previews its new cyber workforce dashboard.

OPM plans to launch a federal cyber workforce dashboard to provide agencies with a better tool to address workforce needs, according to a demo of the proposed dashboard held during a recent NIST webinar. Read more

ICYMI Snippets

• Why the VA paid a $25% premium to hire Booz Allen.
• GSA calls for industry nominations to join its cloud security advisory panel.
• GAO calls on Energy Department to bolster competition for management contracts.
• USAID seeks input on how to launch a new STEM fellowship program to attract talent.

Civilian Contracts Awards

• CloudShape secures $144M USAID hybrid cloud services contract.
• HHS ASA awards Barex Technologies a $2M EHCM technical transition for Oracle Cloud managed services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IaaS task.
• NIH awards ANACAPA Micro Products a $1M IT product and services task.

Follow Civilian Leaders

Civilian Job Openings

• The Farm Service Agency needs a new Chief of Staff.
• NASA is looking for a Chief, Mission Systems Division.

M&A CORNER

DMI has acquired Simplex Mobility.

DMI has purchased Simplex Mobility, expanding DMI’s presence in the managed mobility services market. DMI’s COO said the transaction will enable the company to offer a managed service offering meant to help clients monitor, transform, and manage their inventory, assets, and expenses. Read more

AE Industrial Partners acquires stake in REDLattice.

AE Industrial Partners, LP, a U.S.-based private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, has acquired a significant stake in REDLattice Inc., a pure-play cyber technology company providing full spectrum cyber capabilities for customers in the U.S. national security, defense, and commercial communities. Read more