VA Mulls Unrestricted Vendor Pool for Modernization Contract Follow-On

The Department of Veterans Affairs is considering allowing larger businesses to participate in version 2.0 of a contract vehicle for health care system modernization services. Currently, participation in the Integrated Healthcare Transformation vehicle is restricted to service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses. The original IHT is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a potential 10-year performance period. It was […]
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CACI, AWS Partner to Enhance Cloud Capabilities Delivery

CACI International has entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to enhance cloud capabilities delivery for U.S. government clients. Under the strategic collaboration agreement, CACI will augment its end-to-end enterprise IT modernization and mission modernization solutions with methodologies it used in its Agile Solution Factory, deliver improved edge capabilities by integrating AWS […]
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Three Vendors Competing for Eight-Year Army Enterprise Resource Planning System Development Contract

IBM, Accenture and Groundswell are competing for a potential eight-year contract to build a platform that will consolidate five U.S. Army business systems. The companies have received other transaction authority agreements worth $7.5 million to deliver Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence prototypes by May 2024. The prototypes will be hosted in the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Environment. Following […]
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US Army Begins Deploying New Contract Writing System

The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems has debuted an enterprise contract writing and management platform to streamline acquisition. Initial deployment of the Army Contract Writing System is limited to 104 contracting personnel at several locations, including Army Contracting Command-Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Feedback will be used to inform the next release. Megan […]
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DISA Launches OCONUS Cloud Capability at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

The Defense Information Systems Agency has launched the OCONUS Region for Stratus, a cloud capability available at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. The cloud capability works to deliver additional cloud capabilities outside the contiguous United States. It is part of DISA’s initiative to create infrastructure that will connect ground teams stationed around the world […]
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Federal CISO Says 10-Year Plan to Replace Legacy IT Under Development

Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, has revealed that the White House is making a decade-long federal agency modernization plan to phase out legacy systems and strengthen national cybersecurity. At a Nextgov/FCW event on Tuesday, DeRusha explained that old systems make it difficult to implement guidance on encryption and multifactor authentication. He added […]
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