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March 25, 2024
Budgeting for nuclear modernization, BlackSea buys Blue Tide Marine, ABMC CMS RFP, NGA RFI, 10B Army protest, CISA braces for cuts
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March 25, 2024
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QUICK HITS
Senate misses deadline but averts shutdown: Lawmakers pass $1.2T funding package to fund agencies through September.
CISA braces for potential cuts: Congress approves a spending bill that cuts agency funding.
Complaints about TSA PreChecks have tripled: The agency says more customer service options are causing more complaints.
China's ramping up their satellite refueling: CCP is tweaking tech for on-orbit refueling for peacetime and wartime scenarios.
DEFENSE & AEROSPACE
The DOD’s AI chief is building what he calls a 'maturity model' for generative AI.
With AI hype outrunning reality, the DOD's AI chief has said that his office is "building what we're calling a maturity model" to assess what generative AI can and cannot do, telling lawmakers that "we’ve been working really hard to figure out where and when generative AI can be useful and where and when it’s gonna be dangerous." Read more
DOD invests in FY25 strategic force capabilities to meet competitor security challenges.
To meet the security challenges that its competitors pose, the DOD is investing specifically in nuclear strategic force capabilities in FY25; $49.2B are in the coffers to modernize the nuclear triad. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, are the competitors the DOD is most concerned about. Read more
CDAO building out requirements for Pentagon's CJADC2.
The CDAO is expanding the data integration layer for the Pentagon’s Combined Joined All-Domain Command and Control initiative; it will spend the next three to six months developing requirements to allow more companies to help expand the data integration layer. Read more
ICYMI:
Protest: Three companies sue over $10B Army IT hardware contract.
SPACECOM wants mucho money for mucho classified priorities.
Army is looking for drones on its unfunded FY25 wish list.
Defense Contract Awards
Boeing awarded $1.3B Super Hornet production, sustainment work.
IBM secures $576M DMEA contract for semiconductor supply chain support.
Veteran-owned S2 Analytical Solutions wins $113M DISA JSP Technology Architecture Governance BPA.
General Dynamics subsidiary secures $145M Navy contract mod.
Follow the Defense Leaders
Retired USAF brigadier general appointed Decision Lens SVP.
Former HawkEye 360 VP joins Kratos Defense and Security Solutions as Product Mgmt VP.
Meet the nominee for the Pentagon's assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy.
House China Committee Chair to leave Congress in April.
Defense Job Openings
USAF seeks new CIO/Deputy Director, Plans and Integration.
DCAA seeks Assistant Director, Human Capital and Resource Mgmt.
OSD seeks a new Deputy Chief Financial Officer.
The National Defense University is looking for its new Chancellor.
FUNNY
INTEL COMMUNITY
ICYMI:
RFI: NGA seeks support for in-place monitoring system.
White Papers: INSCOM is seeking white papers on the topic of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Advanced Data Collection, Processing, Analysis, Visualization and AI Tools. Responses are due by April 21.
NGA releases topic 2 of BIG-ST BAA: Magnifying University Science Expertise (MUSE).
Find out what makes geospatial data performance such an obstacle for the IC.
DOE needs a new Deputy Director for Counterintelligence.
CIVILIAN
VA's new EHR riddled with issues that led to patient harm, death.
Issues with the VA’s new EHR have contributed to patient harm and one death. New reports from VA’s OIG detail problems with the new Oracle Cerner EHR system that made it difficult to reschedule medical appointments and effectively track veterans’ prescriptions. Read more
OP-ED: AI ain't what it’s cracked up to be – not yet, anyway.
It’s tough to argue at this point that AI hasn’t begun – and won’t continue – to transform the way we work and live, There’s no denying its potential. But the fact is, despite what most people want to believe what AI is and can do, federal agencies should know that we’re just not there yet. Read more
IT experts to agencies: be more aggressive with your digital transformation!
Federal IT experts had a message at the ServiceNow Federal Forum for agencies trying to achieve digital transformation: drive cultural change, even if it means upsetting some of your colleagues. Read more
ICYMI:
RFP UPDATE: VA seeks offers for $14B follow-on healthcare transformation contract. Due date is pushed to Apr 3.
RFP: Museum and Archives Collections Management System (CMS) for ABMC.
Watch: NASA releases its first scientifically-focused tabletop RPG.
NRO gearing up to start buying commercial radar-sat data.
Civilian Contracts Awards
SEC awards $2.8M HPE server hardware, software, maintenance task to FCN, Inc.
Booz Allen awarded NASA facility degradation modeling contract.
VA awards Miniburn Technology group $2.3M VISN 8 support contract.
FDA awards Application Research Center an Enterprise Business Objects services task.
Civilian Job Openings
NARA seeks Deputy Executive for Archival Operations, Research Services.
DOE seeks Director, Office of Isotope R&D.
OMB seeks Records and Information Mgmt Officer.
OPM is looking for a Deputy Chief Financial Officer.
M&A CORNER
BlackSea acquires Blue Tide Marine.
BlackSea Technologies has acquired Blue Tide Marine. The partnership is designed to deliver customers the state-of-the-art in coordinating manned teams and unmanned, autonomous platforms, offering asymmetric capabilities in support of critical missions. Read more
SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿
Why is it so hard to make generative AI systems safe for the military?
The DOD's outgoing chief digital and AI officer has told lawmakers that making generative AI systems safe for use in military operations will require significant work; he warned that ensuring the accuracy and value of large language models will be the “biggest charge” for his successor. Read more
Did you know that the presidential transition is already underway?
In case you didn't know, the presidential transition has already begun, and you can get in on the fun. Panelists on an online webinar put on by the AFFIRM group the other day talked all about transition. The speakers, all current or former federal executives, said that helping a transition can be professionally rewarding and even fun, although it requires setting aside your personal politics. Read more
Netflix’s Three Body Problem: Explained by an astrophysicist.
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem premiered this past week, and there’s a lot of science! The new Netflix series adapts a bestselling sci-fi trilogy by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, an engineer with a high-level understanding of physics. The show is a zoomed-out view of quantum mechanics and astrophysics underlying all the cool space stuff. With the assistance of an actual astrophysicist, let’s go through the basics you need to know to understand what the heck is happening in this show. Read more
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