January 3, 2025

Good morning and Happy New Year! We’re back and ready to kick off 2025 with all the GovCon news, updates, and insights you need. Here’s to a year full of new opportunities and continued success – let’s make it a great one.

—The GovBrew Crew

QUICK HITS

• WOSB program recertification: It has been extended for one year.

• Polaris awards announced: 102 small businesses win spots.

• DOD completes pilot to seek out medical AI vulnerabilities. More than 800 vulnerabilities and biases were identified.

• NIH’s acquisition arm: NITAAC University just launched online.

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DEFENSE & AEROSPACE

DOD’s moving contract faces yet another legal battle.

The legal challengers—moving companies conducting many military moves under DOD’s legacy contract structure—claim DOD made “cardinal” changes to its contract with HomeSafe, the winning bidder, long after award. The changes are so significant that GHC is now fundamentally different from the original 2018 contract. Read more

USSF S4S sets strategic vision after a milestone year.

U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) completed its first year by establishing a strategic vision and creating its inaugural Joint Space Operations Plan to enhance space superiority. This effort supports USSPACECOM's mission to coordinate operations and protect U.S. and allied interests in a contested space domain. Read more

Space Force plans 2025 international strategy launch.

The USSF is developing an international strategy to integrate allies and partners from the earliest stages of concept development and planning. The initiative seeks to ensure that future systems are "allied by design," enhancing collaboration and addressing challenges such as data-sharing and over-classification. Read more

ICYMI:

• D-RFP: Leadership Development Program - IT (AFLDP-IT).

• Navy RFI: EIPB Geospatial Software Application Support Services.

• New GovCon tool: AskUncleSam. Check out the new AI product.

• USAF aligns cyber capabilities center with CIO strategy.

• DARPA tests autonomous at-sea refueling for USV Defiant under NOMARS.

Defense Contract Awards

• The Army has awarded 12 spots for the $249M A/E Services deal.

• Northrop Grumman Sys won a $481M OTA for BCS software.

• AttainX secured a $3M USAF AFRS RSIS IT Services deal.

• VSolvit won a $1.5M NIWC Atlantic Multiple Services contract.

Follow the Defense Leaders

• American Rheinmetall named its new PM and PS President.

• CGI welcomed its new Global Analyst Relations VP.

Defense Job Openings

• DOD wants a Policy, Plans, and Requirements Director.

• USAF needs an Interagency Coordination Manager.

TRIVIA 🤔

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INTEL COMMUNITY

Here are the key tech, workforce provisions in the 2025 intelligence authorization bill.

The 2025 intelligence authorization act enhances the intelligence community's talent exchange program, extending detail durations to five years and limiting private-sector access to trade secrets. It also mandates assessments of China's biotechnology efforts and expands geospatial intelligence and AI security initiatives. Read more

ICYMI:

• RFI: On behalf of USSOCOM, GSA is seeking Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Transport (C2ISR-T).

• Peraton bagged a $250M Q4 Classified Contracts deal.

• A new Acting CIO for DIA has been named.

• NGA needs an Assistant Inspector General.

• ODNI is looking for a Functions and Collections Deputy Chief.

VIDEO

Rare Vintage Film shows the RCA Model 501 Computer of 1959 at U.S. Air Force Air Reserve Records Center.

CIVILIAN

DOE’s Cybercore defends critical infrastructure in the cyber battlespace.

At the Idaho National Laboratory's Cybercore Integration Center, the mission is clear: safeguard the digital lifeblood of America's critical infrastructure. From energy grids to water systems, they focus on fortifying industrial control systems against cyber threats. Read more

Chinese-sponsored hackers accessed Treasury documents in a “major incident.”

In a classic "they're in your system" move, Chinese hackers breached the U.S. Treasury, rummaging through unclassified documents and workstations after exploiting a third-party software vulnerability. It's a major cyber oops for the Treasury, but at least they didn’t steal the holiday bonuses—yet. Read more

USDOT report highlights geopolitical risks to supply chain resilience.

The USDOT's latest report underscores how geopolitical tensions threaten supply chain resilience. It emphasizes the need for robust infrastructure investments and strategic planning to mitigate these risks and enhance national economic security. Read more

ICYMI:

• DHS RFI: Law Enforcement Systems and Analysis.

• CISA wants public feedback on “ChemLock Information Collection” initiative.

• DOE makes an $18M investment in marine energy and offshore wind research.

• New U.S. energy modernization efforts cybersecurity plan unveiled.

Civilian Contracts Awards

• AuroTech inked a $451M FDA FISMA Support Services contract.

• Manhattan Strategy Group booked a DOL EO&A multi-award BPA.

• Centeva secured an $8.2M VA OPAL Tier 1 Acquisition Systems Support deal.

Follow Civilian Leaders

• General Dynamics Mission Systems has a new Security Products VP.

• ManTech selected a new Proposal Operations VP.

Civilian Job Openings

• DFA is seeking an Environmental and Social Monitoring Systems Director.

• VHA is hiring a Financial Manager.

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SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿

1. A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Las Vegas Hotel. Is this connected to the deadly New Orleans attack? SOURCE↗︎ 

2. The largest ever quantum computer will be released by IBM this year. They will connect machines to make one with a recording-breaking number of quantum bits. SOURCE↗︎

3. How did Jimmy Carter used the CIA and NSA to forge Middle East Peace? “We told the truth, we obeyed the law, and we kept the peace.” SOURCE↗︎

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TRIVIA ANSWER ⭐️

C. $500 million —  In the mid-1950s, IBM received a $500 million contract to build over four dozen AN/FSQ-7 computers for the U.S. Air Force’s SAGE radar and air defense system, introducing the company to real-time computing and networking. These massive machines, the largest ever built at the time, weighed 250 tons, filled half an acre, and executed 75,000 instructions per second. (Source)