The 4 Biggest Trends in Federal IT in 2017
Cybersecurity, IT modernization, shared services and a changing of the guard in leadership dominated the federal technology landscape in the first year of the Trump administration.
Cybersecurity, IT modernization, shared services and a changing of the guard in leadership dominated the federal technology landscape in the first year of the Trump administration.
The Modernizing Government Technology Act—and several other tech amendments—could have an immediate impact on the government’s tech landscape.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) issued a solicitation for help in preparing various survivability assessments. Award was to be made on a best-value basis considering mission capability, past performance, and cost. The mission capability factor included two sub-factors; management approach and technical approach. Six firms submitted bids. DTRA awarded the contract to Centra. Two of the losing bidders, PAE and Ensco appealed challenging DTRA’s evaluations of their own and Centra’s proposals. The focus of this article is on DTRA’s assessment of Centra’s (the winning bidder) proposal.
SOURCE: What’s the Big Deal With Two Extra Pages Beyond a Stated Page Limitation?
The contract may feature 61 businesses but a research firm says far fewer companies will snag most of the business.
As agencies face pressure to optimize and virtualize their data centers, the GSA’s new hyperconverged infrastructure contract will allow agencies to move away from legacy setups.
Source: GSA Gives Agencies More Options to Modernize Data Centers via Hyperconvergence
The Defense Department intends to award a cloud computing contract next year that could disrupt the entire federal market.
Source: Pentagon’s Next Cloud Contract Could Be Worth Billions
As defense contractors continue to push towards their end-of-year implementation deadline for NIST SP 800-171 under DFARS 252.204-7012, the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) has given the contracting community some extra time to respond to a draft publication that outlines how they and their customers alike can assess compliance with the security standard. … Continue Reading
President Trump authorized a $700 billion military budget, including spending on missile defense programs to respond to North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
President Trump’s signature authorizes a total of nearly $700 billion in defense spending and clears the way for new investment in technology modernization across the federal government.
SOURCE: New defense budget could result in windfall for D.C.-area IT contractors
The subcontractor that hired the coders signed a non-prosecution deal to end a criminal investigation.
Source: Company That Used Russian Coders for Pentagon Project Strikes Deal