⚡2.4B DHS Cyber/3B VA TeleHealth/Navy HR/AFSMS 3.0 Scoop🍦; 92M NIH NSPS/43M EPA GAVETS/DOJ QA/23M CDAO Advana/157M Navy SoS/Cyber/DoD GenAPI JPT wins

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🍊The Peel: Opportunity Lies Ahead: A BD Game Plan – Shelley McGuire talks with Eric Nusbaum and Blake Phillips of ENcompass Consulting Group about how to thrive amid the ongoing DOGE-driven disruption in the government contracting space, including practical strategies for managing costs in the short term and leveraging disruption as opportunity by pivoting into new scopes, agencies, and vehicles. Listen here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• SoldierPoint Digital Health takes helm for 2 Key VA contracts valued at $3B
• Leidos’ $2.4B DHS Agile Cybersecurity Technical Security (ACTS) Award Canceled
• Scale uses OTA to nab DOD OSD GenAI joint planning tool prototype contract
• ICYMI: MMC Government: Navigating Change: FAR 2.0 and the Modern Contracting Ecosystem
• Reconciliation text includes $500 million for modernization and AI at Commerce
• Frank S. Nestore: Mathtech shares Systems Modernization expertise on new OrangeSlices AI page
• #DOGE – key contracts terminated yesterday at OCC, USDA and a major Navy HR Transformation contract. More Here.
• $2.5B Cut to IRS Budget proposed for FY2026 | No Warranted CO at Election Assistance Commission = Comms Procurement Canceled
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services focused Service-Disabled Veteran-owned small businesses to know – Meet them here.

The Juice🥤: These firms and agencies are gearing up to make a big impact in 2025 and beyond:

• CMS names new Acting Community Systems Transformation Leader
• JOS Group recruits CMS Div of Technical Engineering & Architecture lead Jennifer Mooney
• CMS Health IT Systems and Modernization Leader takes new role with Industry
• VA Veterans Experience (CX) Services Portfolio Leader exits, joins SAIC
• Commerce Dept names new Office of Financial Management Systems leader
• SBA taps Hartley Caldwell as its new Chief Information Officer
• Mayo Clinic adds former HHS leader Micky Tripathi as Chief Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer

and several Growth-Minded Execs take on new challenges: Chuck Zink promoted to Executive Director at Aretec | Meera Kanhouwa now Booz Allen SVP, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer | Caroline Devlin to drive Capture Management at Oddball
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🔍 ⚖ GAO and the Courts – Check out the latest:

• US Air Force Protest Filed: Modeling and Simulation Support Services (AFMS3) 3.0
• US Air Force Protest Filed:  RFQ1738002 | Constellation Software Engineering
• U.S. Army Materiel Command Protest Filed: W91RUS25RLBRY | Vision Information Technology Consultants

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