Federal contract obligations on cloud services are expected to rise by approximately 32 percent to $6.5B in fiscal 2018, up from $4.9B in the previous fiscal year, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. BGOV estimates the Defense Department to record approximately $2B in fiscal 2018 cloud services spending and civilian agencies to spend $4.4B on such contracts […] More

Former CSRA CEO Larry Prior, a four-time Wash100 winner, has said the federal government’s spending plans and demand for novel technology platforms will likely drive more mergers and acquisitions among contracting firms, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Prior, who was recently named to the board of analytics firm Novetta, said at a breakfast event Friday there […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded AECOM a five-year, $27 million contract to provide architect-engineer remediation services for military munitions and hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste. Fourteen bids were submitted to the Army Contracting Command for the project slated for completion by July 26, 2023, the Defense Department said Friday. Leidos received a separate five-year, $27 million contract […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a draft request for proposals for a recompete of its information technology services contract and raised the potential ceiling value of the procurement vehicle to $535 million, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. DTRA will hold a full and open competition for the Agency-Wide IT Service Design contract that covers work to design […] More

The Defense Department plans to increase the ceiling amount of a potential 10-year, $4.3 billion contract to update and deploy a new electronic health records platform by approximately $1.1 billion, Nextgov reported Tuesday. An industry team composed of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won the MHS Genesis EHR contract in July 2015. Stacy Cummings, program executive officer […] More

The U.S. Navy has announced plans to release on or around July 31 a request for proposals for the service management, integration and transport portion of the Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the service’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command intends to accept proposals by Oct. 1 for the NGEN-R […] More

Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More

Anthony Aquino, a U.S. Army reservist and former division director of strategy at Leidos, has been named president of a TechFlow subsidiary that offers mission support services to federal government and military customers. He will lead EMI Services and its efforts to help Defense Department clients maintain facilities as well as manage base operations, logistics activities and information technology […] More

Leidos’ Sea Hunter autonomous anti-submarine vessel has passed nearly two years of testing with the U.S. Navy and joined the service’s fleet of warships, CNBC reported Wednesday. The report said almost all of Sea Hunter’s elements are now classified. Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, vice president and Navy strategic account executive at Leidos, stated that Sea […] More

Albany Molecular Research Inc. has secured a potential 10-year, $39.5 million contract renewal to support a National Institutes of Health program that aims to develop medicines for nervous system disorders. AMRI said Tuesday it will continue to provide medicinal chemistry, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion services to the Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network managed by NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and […] More

Microsoft’s cloud offerings have received certification in Australia to host data at the protected level. The company said Tuesday the Australian government’s signals directorate has added its Azure and Office 365 platforms to the Certified Cloud Services List. Steven Worrall, managing director of Microsoft’s Australian arm, said the Protected Level certification for Office 365 and […] More

Northrop Grumman will support information technology modernization and transformation activities at the Social Security Administration under a potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in August 2017. The company said Thursday it seeks to help SSA update and engineer software, manage data and database and secure IT platforms through the IDIQ re-compete award. Northrop, CGI’s federal business and Leidos hold positions on […] More