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May 29, 2024
NIH Recompete Report, massive contracts awarded, best GovCon events, data routing security sys, DOS OSINT strategy, small biz Navy Microsoft D-RFP, NASA moon camp
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May 29, 2024
QUICK HITS
NASA wants a base camp on the moon by 2030: Idaho National Labs is helping the agency achieve it.
NSA Research Director: AI and problems with quantum.
FAR Part 37: Learn more about “Service Contracting” in this Friday’s Webinar.
DARPA is sponsoring a Proposers Day: Get info on objectives of the anticipated AIQ BAA on June 14.
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DEFENSE & AEROSPACE
Pentagon: The future is quantum.
A new "Center of Excellence," first introduced in April, is set to be focused on much more than just computing: the Pentagon has eyes on the future of quantum computing and how it impacts national security with this newly proposed center of excellence. Read more
Defense chief to Amazon: There’s no bias in cloud contract.
The Pentagon awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft. Amazon’s opinion was that the contracting process was not fair. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, on the other hand, defended the Pentagon’s decision against accusations of partiality. Read more
Space Force is careful in getting on-orbit servicing capabilities.
The Space Force is cautiously exploring on-orbit servicing capabilities—including refueling and satellite repairs. Rather than committing to long-term financial investments, they are conducting cost-benefit studies and experiments. This is happening despite the US Space Command's increasing interest in the commercial industry. Read more
ICYMI:
Small biz D-RFP: Navy seeks support for Microsoft enterprise services.
Navy RFI: USN seeks info on services for military aircraft repair & overhaul.
Navy wants Army to share its data analytics capability.
$5 billion spent in 2024 to bolster electronic warfare capabilities.
Defense Contract Awards
Boeing awarded $7.5B AF Joint Direct Attack Munitions contract.
Intrepid awarded $850M Army GFEBS Support Services deal.
SAIC wins $143M USN Heavyweight Torpedo Program deal.
Morse Corp nabs $67M USA Data and Software Engineering Support contract.
Fincantieri Marinette Marine won a $1B Constellation-class Guided-Missile Frigates contract.
Follow the Defense Leaders
USAF has a new Undersecretary.
Maxar Intelligence promotes USG Account Executive to CTIO.
Former Natl’l Reconnaissance NRO Director is now on the BAE Systems Board of Directors.
Peraton has chosen a new Corporate Finance VP.
Defense Job Openings
ANG wants a Director of Inspections.
USPACFLT is seeking a Workforce Development Program Director.
DA is looking for a Program Manager.
FREE RECOMPETE REPORT
60+ upcoming recompete opportunities
You’re chasing opportunities—every day, all the time—because getting in front of new opportunities is one of the secrets to success in GovCon. Here at GovBrew, we know that and want to help you fill the pipeline. So, we pulled together this Recompete Report to save you some legwork.
This report contains actionable intelligence about potential recompetes and expiring contracts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sure, all this information is publicly available, but we gathered it from five different sources, so you don’t have to do it yourself.
Now, you can focus on what matters most—fielding opportunities, closing deals and grabbing a few more brews ( ☕️ 🍺).
INTEL COMMUNITY
State Dept’s intel bureau to harness OSINT under new strategy.
The State Department’s intelligence arm is vowing to take better advantage of publicly accessible information and commercial data under a new strategy that calls for meeting diplomats’ demand for more unclassified assessments; the intelligence arm also recognizes the potential for generative AI to leverage open-source intelligence. Read more
New FBI contract vehicle is the largest the bureau's ever seen.
The FBI has announced that 95 entities received awards under the sequel to the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services contract ITSSS. The agency said the new agreement will be the primary vehicle for IT services for the next eight years. Read more
The obscure federal intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right.
Every American knows what the CIA is. Maybe 1 in 1,000 people have ever heard of INR—the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, American diplomats’ in-house intelligence agency. But if you do know about INR, you probably know two things: (1) It has gotten big stuff right when the CIA and others screwed up. (2) When it got that big stuff right, no one listened to it. Read more
ICYMI:
RFI: IARPA seeks info on end-gen waveforms; responses are due June 28.
Reli Group was awarded a $340M TSA Program Management (IT, GP, Acquisition, Financial, Cost Estimating) deal.
Former Executive Advisor to the CIO rejoins DHS as Communications and Strategic Engagements Deputy Chief of Staff.
ODNI is looking for a CFO.
ODNI wants a Program Manager.
SECNAV needs an Executive Director.
DHS needs an OIRA Deputy Assistant Director.
CIVILIAN
GAO identifies two ways to save taxpayers billions of dollars.
The GAO has identified two tech-related ways to potentially save taxpayers billions of dollars in its latest report; its annual overlap reports have yielded $667B in cost savings and revenue increases. With the most recent recommendations to Congress, GAO said the federal government could save even more money. Read more
OPM cracks down on fraud spike in FSAFEDS.
Hundreds of feds with FSAs have seen fraudulent activity on their accounts. Now, OPM is implementing anti-fraud controls and compensating hundreds of accounts in flexible spending programs impacted by fraud. Read more
Data Routing System: The White House wants to update it.
The White House has announced plans to ensure that more than half of IP addresses owned and used by federal agencies have enhanced data routing security measures by the end of the year to prevent hackers from hijacking digital pathways into government networks. Read more
ICYMI:
IRS RFI: Submit info on cybersecurity fraud analytics and monitoring.
In case you missed the news last Friday….NASA’s final solicitation for SEWP VI IT Support contract vehicle is out now.
Are hydrogen fuel cells feasible? DOE tapped Piasecki to find out.
Booz Allen’s AI Outlook: It’s vertical scaling-focused.
Civilian Contracts Awards
Qbase got a $14M DHA MTF Network Sustainment and Deployment Support Services contract.
dotIT nabs $2.4B ITIPSS IDIQ.
ActionHGS received an SEC OIT Network Engineering Branch Operations support contract.
Follow Civilian Leaders
A former Empower Senior Director was selected to be Alpha Omega’s new Digital Transformation VP.
HUD has a new Office of Technology, Innovation, Evaluation Director.
HII has chosen a new Business Development Executive.
RELI has a new CSO.
Civilian Job Openings
DOL needs a Division Director.
DOS is seeking an Assistant Director.
USDA is looking for a Deputy Director.
SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿
There’s a new kind of computer in town. Is it really run by brains?
16 lab-grown brains are running the world’s first ‘living computer’ in Switzerland; a new bioprocessing platform launched by a Swiss technology firm uses human brain tissue to process data and bring together hardware, software, and biology. Read more
Realistic holograms…in eyeglasses?
Researchers have invented a device that’s small enough to fit in a regular pair of glasses and could solve an age-old trade-off in holographic displays — leading to the most realistic holograms ever. Read more
Google just had an algorithm overhaul. How will this change the internet?
Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search has helped upheave the Internet's most powerful too. Now, many are wondering whether Google is more likely to save the web than destroy it. Read more
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