Earlier this week, Dell EMC and its team of General Dynamics and Microsoft announced that they had won a $1 billion contract to migrate the Air Force’s email and other collaboration applications to the cloud.
Source: Air Force’s $1B cloud award part of the ‘invisible IT market’ — Washington Technology
Our Oct. 11 Washington Technology Industry Day on the Health and Human Services Department is kicking into high gear.
Source: WT Industry Day dives into HHS’ $14B IT spend — Washington Technology
The annual Defense authorization bill the Senate passed earlier this month still needs to be reconciled with the House version, once the two chambers and the administration agree on top-line funding levels for the government for the remainder of 2018. But, as usual, the NDAA includes several measures that would affect how the federal government does business with contractors. David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about a few provisions worth keeping an eye on.
Source: David Berteau: What’s in the NDAA contractors need to know about? – FederalNewsRadio.com
Today’s guests are Phil Crawford, senior consultant and Branko Primetica, partner & chief strategy officer, eGlobal Tech. They are going to take a look at the federal CIO position and give an outsider’s perspective.
Source: Federal CIOs: An outsider’s perspective – FederalNewsRadio.com
It’s not clear yet which agencies were affected.
Source: Report: Government Agencies Compromised in Deloitte Breach – Nextgov.com
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Friday a partial settlement in a case involving questionable subcontracting practices by an Energy Department contractor and one of its subcontractors. The investigation is ongoing but one of the parties agreed to pay $2 million to resolve its part of the case.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: $2 Million Settlement in Small Business Subcontracting Fraud
Will the government’s technology challenges galvanize decision-makers as the Cold War once did?
Source: Trump Aide Says Modernizing Federal IT is Administration’s Cold War Moment – Nextgov.com
The Department of Defense (DOD) will release the final RFP for the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract (IAC-MAC) on October 3. This $28 billion IDIQ was on Lohfeld Consulting’s top 20 opportunities list for FY17, but final RFP release slipped to first quarter FY18.
Source: IAC-MAC: Are you ready for one of FY18’s biggest IDIQs? | Lohfeld
Good news for major defense contractors.
The Department of Defense issued a class deviation regarding the requirement for Independent Research and Development technical exchanges. (See Class Deviation 2017-O0010 dated September 14, 2017).
Leaders will exchange ideas on resource sharing, budgeting, diversity and the buying process at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers 2017 Annual Conference.
