157M VA PMO/IRS Digitalization Trouble;⚡ 51M CBP Cloud/USPTO IA/TREAS CyberSec/DEA DMS/Army GRIDS IV wins; Top OASIS FY26 Opps; VA/DOI/CDAO Exec Moves

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• 🚀This list of OASIS Expiring Tasks Expected to Draw Interest in FY 2026 is designed to spark teaming conversation. Check out the list here.
• $157M VA BAM PMO & Technical Management Support award Protested (again)
• Three awards challenged at IRS – $142M IRS OCIO Scanning and Digitalization | $18M Scanning contract and NMCC IT and Operational Support
• 6 notable contract termination announcements posted Monday – NIH, FDA and FEMA
• DOD shares Software Fast Track Initiative and 3 Related RFIs
• DataBricks uses OTA to land DOD Chief Data & AI Office contract
• GSA Consolidation, Here we Come: Anduril secures Prime spot on GSA MAS and Anduril to acquire Klas to bolster AI warfare system
• US Coast Guard 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:

• SpaceX alum Paul McInerny tapped as Interior CIO
• GSA adds DOD Acting Deputy Chief Digital and AI Officer for Acquisitions as Senior Strategic Advisor
• DOL names new acting Chief Information Security Officer as CISO Paul Blahusch Retiring
• Maryland recruits former OPM CISO and Deputy CIO James Saunders as acting CISO
• IRS Digital Modernization leader Darnita Trower takes role as Chief Customer Experience Officer at 22nd Century Technologies
• TISTA welcomes VA CTO Mark Junda as Executive Director of Digital Customer Experience
• Brian Derfer promoted to Chief AI Officer at Agile Six
• and several Growth-Minded Execs takes on new challenges: Tata Consultancy adds Fed Health SME Ken Dougherty | Technatomy adds former VA Ops leader | InterScripts adds Shannon Goins | Dustin Hoover has joined Vericol | ECS adds longtime VA FSC lead Jilee Rich| and Capital Technology Group adds transformation lead James Bench
• Many others in the report below, to include: SSA Systems Architecture SME and a DOD/DISA/ED IT Leader exit, join industry

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🔍 ⚖ GAO and the Courts – Check out the latest:

• Fresh Protest challenging $157M VA BAM PMO & Technical Management Support award
• Protest Filed: $142M IRS OCIO Scanning as a Service and Digitalization contract
• Protest Filed: $18M IRS OCIO Scanning and Digitalization Services contract
• Fresh Protest Filed: IRS Network Management Control Center (NMCC) IT and Operational Support Service
• Protest Filed: US Navy NAVAIR IT Enterprise Engineering, Operations, and Hosting Support Services

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