🚀93M FBI CJIS/IRS Cloud/VA CTAM/DHS IDVRS/NIH CIT CM/USSOCOM SOCRATES/USAF & Treasury CyberSec/78M OPM PDASS wins; NGA IT and Alliant 3 GWAC Troubles

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• In advance of $60M PEO-SOF Digital Applications Support recompete, CO exit forces USSOCOM contract extension
• New award decision coming soon as Protest of $417M Navy NMMES IT Modernization contract forces another extension
• Jason Miller: Analysis of OMB new memo on AI and procurement.
• Katie Helwig: Top 10 takeaways from AFCEA NOVA’s Innovation IT Day
• IRS Acting DCIO Darnita Trower: Reflections on 190 Days as Acting Deputy CIO, Operations

💲#DOGE Scoop – Avert your eyes if you don’t want to watch – we get it:

• Jeffrey Davis: CMS ordered to submit plans for how to reduce $2.7B in contract spending or 35% of its total contract spend
• Mike Sacca: $5.1B in Large “Non-Essential” DoD Contracts Terminated. Follow-up on the top 10 contractor hit list from last month.
• OPM lacks funds to relocate ‘significant’ number of employees in return-to-office plans
• GSA’s tech shop begins layoffs to become ‘smaller and flexible’
• ‘Your position is being abolished’: ED staff get official reduction-in-force notices
• Interior Dept to consolidate functions across the country, leading to widespread layoffs
• Pentagon kicks off major effort to reshape its civilian workforce
• NOAA fires previously reinstated probationary workers, sources say

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• It’s Friday and it’s 5’oclock somewhere:
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  • Virtual DHS Masters Golf-Themed Networking Happy Hour with Monica Padron Harris and Infocap AI’s Nathaniel Palmer – Spots are Limited
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• Connect with Government:
  • CECOM SEC invites vendors to participate in one-on-one sessions during the 2025 APG Advance Planning Briefings to Industry (APBI)
  • DOD Platform One SBIR Pitch Days are back – show off your technical capabilities and meet key P1 leaders and Government personnel
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The Juice🥤: These firms and agencies are gearing up to make big impact in 2025 and beyond:

• Cypress International recruits Army Digital Transformation Leader Jennifer Swanson to serve as VP for Digital and Next-Gen Solutions
• VA taps Software Development Division Chief and VBA taps Business Support Services lead
• Don Bergin of BAE Systems takes new role as new position as Senior Advisor to the Secretary at VA
• US International DFC names new IT Operations leader
• Technatomy welcomes back Margot Dawson to drive Capture and Proposal Engagement
• KSA Integration LLC hires Peter Judd to lead Warrior Care services
• Hannah Thomas to Semper Valens Solutions to drive Army BD and Capture

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• GSA will now fight Alliant 3 GWAC challenges on multiple fronts
• Two diverging challenges to $50+M DHS OCIO Cybersecurity Governance & Compliance Services contract award decision
• Challengers of NGA VERTEX IT Services Award start to Pile-On
• The Silent Shred⚡– Today’s contract terminations at USDA, ED, HHS (ACF/CDC/NIH/FDA) AND DHS. See the List here.

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• FBI: Trilogy Innovations beats out 11 to win $93M CJIS FAST-NCIC support contract
• Treasury Department awards $24M Cyber Support BPA to Booz Allen Hamilton
• IRS awards Data Loss Prevention Cloud Migration Services contract to WOSB Prijal
• VA awards $6M Clinical Terminology and Management Support Services contract
• CBP awards Incident-Driven Video Recording Systems (IDVRS) PMO Directorate Program Support task to Guidehouse
• PSG lands $78M OPM Digitization and Scanning Services (ODASS) BPA
• NIH: In advance of competitive RFP (and some reorg?), NLM extends ICF’s ClinicalTrials.gov IT Support contract
• NIH CIT awards OAM IT Communications and Change Management Services bridge task on CIO-SP3 to Deloitte
• USSOCOM: CCS subsidiary scores $19M SOCRATES Technical Support contract
• USSOCOM: Core One beats 14 for $16M J59 CDI Support task on SOF Core Support IDIQ
• US Air Force: ARMADA lands $17M Cybersecurity/Information Assurance & Security Support Services contract
• DHRA: Tripoint Solution beats out 27 to win $11M DTMO Travel Management Services of Data and Operational Research task on 8(a) STARS III

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📢 Most Viewed Comment:

• Does NITAAC still exist? Website and key tools go dark for CIO-SP3 / CIO-CS Acquisition shop – NITAAC egos has a new domain and can be found at https://cio.egos.nih.gov/ More here.

🔥 Hot Off The Presses – Announcements posted recently that are drawing interest:

• Sentar, Inc. Honored as 3 Star VETS Indexes Employer in 2025
• Sky Solutions Awarded GSA OASIS+ 8(a) Contract in Management and Advisory Domain
• GITAI Establishes GITAI Defense and Space LLC to Enhance U.S. Government Contracting Capabilities
• Redhorse and GraphAware announce the first DOD Impact Level 5 (IL5) deployment of GraphAware Hume, the class-defining Connected Data Analytics Platform

Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• DHS USSS Pre-Solicitation Criminal Investigative Technologies
• ICE Pre-Solicitation: Fleet H.O.M.E. IT Infrastructure and Geospatial Support Services on GTSS III-IT
• Smithsonian Institution RFP: National Museum of African American History and Culture Digital Experience Initiative
• DISA suspends Electromagnetic Battle Management Joint (EMBM-J) Situational Awareness requirement
• USAF Pre-Solicitation: Advisory Support & Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA)
• Navy RFI: Enterprise Systems Security Support Services IDIQ
• Navy Pre-Solicitation: Management Advisory Services for Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research Development and Acquisition IDIQ

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