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May 31, 2024
DTRA $4B counter-WMD award, $2B DOI cloud contract awards, BCP buys Apogee, IRS multiple BPAs, taking down high-alt balloons, proposal writing tips
GovBrew
May 31, 2024
QUICK HITS
Prepare your “AI Quantified Program” proposals for DARPA: The agency has set June 14 as its Proposers Day.
Defense contracting: DOD should urge using existing expertise to its maximum potential for reviewing indemnification requests.
Sole source DOD contracts to employee-owned businesses: Proposed Rule to implement a pilot program.
Tips for creating a winning SEWP VI proposal: Get the proposal details, know the process, and put together a plan ASAP.
TRIVIA 🤔
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DEFENSE & AEROSPACE
RFI: USAF is seeking a cheaper way to “exterminate” high-altitude balloons.
Adversarial high-altitude balloons pose low-cost threats that compromise the nation’s confidentiality and security. USAF wants information on methodologies and capabilities that can effectively mitigate, neutralize, or eliminate related menaces. Read more
Air Force is eyeing moving target indication capability by 2027.
The Air Force has started utilizing their Congressional-granted powers to fund early development work on modernization efforts. The department's goal is to start fielding one of those capabilities for moving target indication in three years’ time. Read more
AUKUS nations to field new “trilateral algorithm” before 2025.
A P-8 ‘trilateral algorithm’ will be hitting the field this year as AUKUS Pillar II eyes quantum clocks and AI projects; AUKUS nations will share information from P-8 sonobuoys with each other with the first piece of tangible AUKUS Pillar II technology to hit the field. Read more
ICYMI:
RFI: Army unveils plan for $1B software development contract.
RFP: Navy has issued a solicitation for the SeaPort NxG IDIQ MAC Rolling Admissions II IDIQ.
DOD OIG-hosted website for monitoring U.S. assistance to Ukraine gets an upgrade.
DOD investigating the cause of a Lockheed Martin F-35B crash in New Mexico.
Guidehouse protests $80M DOD x Deloitte deal again.
Defense Contract Awards
DTRA chooses 9 for $4B counter-WMD tech contract.
GDIT secures $185M Air Force cyber contract.
Chenega snags $110M hybrid Army contract.
Leonardo DRS secures $26M AN/SPQ-9B NAVSEA contract.
IBM wins $48M contract for North Pole Hub hardware and software.
Follow the Defense Leaders
NCIO has a new Deputy CTO.
Former Crunchy Data CTO is now Noblis’ CDE.
ManTech’s Program Manager has been promoted to Intel Sector Division VP.
Former ECS Federal VP selected to be Core4ce CFO.
Defense Job Openings
PACAF is looking for a Force Support Squadron Director.
Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army seeks Civilian Deputy Provost.
SECNAV is on the lookout for a new Executive Director.
VIDEO
INTEL COMMUNITY
ODNI: Framework for commercially available information has been released.
ODNI has unveiled the Intelligence Community Policy Framework for Commercially Available Information. This is essential in their job, but it also raises new concerns about privacy and civil liberties. Read more
ODNI and DIU collaborate to give national security an upgrade.
Through this agreement, DIU and ODNI will leverage their respective expertise, resources, and networks to identify emerging technologies that can enhance intelligence gathering, analysis, and operational capabilities. By collaborating closely, both entities seek to better coordinate a demand signal to industry, and then expedite the deployment of innovative solutions, maximizing efficiency and effectiveness in fulfilling their missions. Read more
ICYMI:
USNI report says Russia presents an "acute threat" to US, allies with its nukes.
DOJ cripples compromised network used for global enterprise run by Chinese national.
DHS sets investment sights on AI, cybersecurity, biotech, and more.
26-year program manager promoted to VP of intel sector division at ManTech.
ODNI needs a Staff Director.
ODNI is looking for a Strategic Competition Director.
DHS is seeking a Crimes of Exploitation Director.
CIVILIAN
EPA is “on target” to complete the process for cybersecurity risk assessment.
The cyber risk assessment process—recommended to the EPA in a July 2019 GAO report—is on track to be finished “by November 22.” The EPA spokesperson said that updates to the agency’s enterprise risk assessment procedure would include a variety of additional performance metrics, citing logging maturity, strong authentication, critical vulnerability remediation and priority security control specifically. Read more
Stealing boxes right off the truck! USPS feels ill-equipped to manage surge in crimes against staff.
The Postal Service doesn’t know if it has enough law enforcement protecting mail and employees; the GAO says that postal inspectors and police are responding to more criminal activity and management needs to determine needs better. Read more
VA says vets who get agency services give higher trust scores.
The VA is touting an engaged workforce as a critical catalyst for surging trust scores; the agency says vets receiving VA services are giving the VA the highest trust scores since it first tracked this data nearly a decade ago. Read more
ICYMI:
D-RFQ: IRS to establish multiple BPAs for digital support services.
FCC proposes rules to cover debris risk from accidental explosions in space.
NOAA's most advanced weather satellite to deliver sharper solar storm forecasts.
Lawmakers seek to boost cybersecurity workforce recruitment from underprivileged communities.
IRS makes Direct File permanent.
Civilian Contracts Awards
DOI awards spots on $2B cloud hosting services contract.
EPA awards $85M environmental collaboration IDIQ to Eastern Research Group.
4 Star Technologies won a $724M NASA Darkowl Vision Services contract.
ICF wins EPA Human Health & Environmental Risk Assessment contract.
Follow Civilian Leaders
NRC has a new CIO.
HHS names acting chief AI officer as it searches for permanent official.
ECS appoints two-decade HR leader as SVP of human capital.
BAE Systems has a new Board Member.
Civilian Job Openings
NCUA needs an Associate Regional Director.
USDOT wants a Deputy Director.
Treasury is hiring a Policy Division Associate Director.
M&A CORNER
BCP acquires Apogee Engineering.
Private equity management firm Bernhard Capital Partners has purchased Apogee Engineering, which provides platforms and services across cybersecurity, technology modernization, integration, and program management to federal customers. Read more
N-Able explores sale.
A provider of IT software with a market value of about $2.5 billion is exploring a sale after attracting acquisition interest. The company, which counts two private equity firms—Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo—as major investors, is running a sale process in which peers in the software sector and private equity firms are participating. N-Able was spun out in 2021 from management software firm SolarWinds, which had been, in turn, acquired by Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo for $4.5 billion in 2016. Read more
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SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿
Asteroid alert! It’s 160 ft. and it’s headed towards earth. Is there are reason to panic?
NASA has issued a warning. 2024 JY1, an airplane-sized asteroid, is hurtling through space toward Earth at an astonishing speed of 37,070 kilometers per hour. Will it wreak havoc on our planet? Is this a real-life Armageddon? Read more
How will Apple’s Tinnitus Research help hearing health?
Apple has shared initial findings on tinnitus from its ongoing hearing health study. Tinnitus is a bothersome condition that results from persistent noise or “ringing” that only the affected individual can experience. Apple’s research shows that about 15% of people surveyed experience tinnitus daily. How important is this research to hearing health? Read more
The first generative AI model for coding has been released. How good is Codestral?
Codestral, Mistral's code-generating model, underwent training across more than 80 programming languages, encompassing Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript. It was made to aid developers in writing and interacting with code—but can it also replace them in the process? Read more
TRIVIA ANSWER ⭐️
The Naval Appropriations Bill (1867) —The Naval Appropriations Bill was the first federal campaign finance law. It prohibited offers and government employees from soliciting contributions from Navy yard workers. All the other bills listed were also federal campaign finance law additions, which you can read about here.
Andrew Jackson is considered the presidential founder of Presidential Campaigning as we know it today. He was the first president who didn’t come from a prestigious family background, extensive education, or much personal wealth. He harnessed the power of the media during his 1824 Presidential campaign. (More)
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