⚡450M LOC Agile IDIQ/VA OCTO DX/NIH IT/IRS TSS/Army AI & ML CyberSec/USAF CyberOps wins; CMS PERM/CIO-SP3 SB/NASA HHPC Protest📰; New State Data Chief

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🌟Former Fed Fridays – From Service to CEO: Hunter Gross meets with Mika Cross, CEO of Strategy@Work, who shares her journey from military service to federal leadership to entrepreneurship, the cultural shifts between government and private industry, her assumptions about unlearning, and the resources that helped her succeed. Listen here.

🎯 VA FY ’26 Recompetes: More than a dozen expiring tasks expected to draw interest – Part 1 of 2 – Andrea shares this curated list of more than a dozen high-impact recompete opportunities—designed to spark teaming conversations and help you capitalize on emerging IT and consulting contracts. More here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• GSA tells agencies to target top 10 consulting firms for cuts
• SEC Announces New Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit
• DHA: Content being removed from LinkedIn per EO related to Social Media
• Tris Carpenter: DISA J9 HaC updates $9B Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC Next) IDIQ acquisition strategy
• Hegseth draft memo lays out software acquisition reform push
• Marketing SME Janet Waring: How to Adapt Messaging in Response to Federal Shifts
• OS AI’s Shelley and Dave host Decoding #DOGE Termination Data: Driving Your 2025 Strategy online event – Note This event is capped and will fill quickly. We plan to do a follow on event in the future

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

• DOGE’s next steps involve moving federal workers out of DC area
• Trump order calls for creation of DOGE-linked agency payment-tracking systems
• John Sly: New Trump DOGE Implementation Order Sustains Contracting Reviews and Overhauls
• Maria Panichelli: New EO Demands Agencies Review All Covered Contracts and Grants, Terminate or Modify To Reduce Spending, System To Track and Justify All Future Payments

⚙️ It’s all about Community – Resources Page for Affected Feds and Industry: Check it out here.

🔥Let’s do something good together – We are still seeking Sponsors to pay for some light refreshments for an OS AI- hosted gathering to be held in support of Federal and Industry Leaders who have been displaced by recent actions. More Details to follow. If you are interested in participating, please message heather.kirk@orangeslices.ai.

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• Army clears key hurdle on $10B ITES 4-H competition
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The Juice🥤: These firms and agencies are gearing up to make big impact in 2025 and beyond:

• Department of State taps Angela James and new Chief Data Officer
• ICYMI: VA recruits Courtney Stecker from Guidehouse to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• Jason Grogg returns to his roots to drive BD within Booz Allen’s VA portfolio
• Gene Mattingly promoted to Vice President of Strategic Growth at Zigabyte
• MO recruits experienced Growth lead and Human-centered everything SME Megan Uhrich
• Kelsey Lepp tapped to drive Operations at Savan
• Praveen Kurian now Senior Vice President, Defense Space at SAIC
• Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Auth for AWS GovCloud & Mike Daniels Joins as Public Sector VP/GM

🔍   This is a dynamic marketplace with a lot of comings and goings. To help you keep up with all of the action, check out this report highlighting top Senior Industry and Federal Leaders on the move from this week.

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

• CMS: Fresh Protest Filed – PERM RC & ERC Combined Contract
• CIO-SP3 SB: All Protests Dismissed on task C-118010-SB
• DHA Protest Dismissed: HT001124R0041 | Emerge Solutions Group
• NASA Protest Dismissed: Human Health and Performance Contract 2 (HHPC2)

Been heads down working on a proposal? Track all the latest protest activity here or see this report with all protest actions over the past week.

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• Contract Award: $450M Library of Congress Agile System Development Support Services IDIQ Take II
• VA: Oddball/ Wilcore JV awarded $21M OCTO Digital Experience – Identity Services task
• NIH: Guidehouse awarded IT services task on CIO-SP3 SB
• IRS: Chevo Consulting beats out 2 to win $8M Taxpayer Services support contract
• DOJ: Precise awarded DEA Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) task
• EPA Contract Award: ECHO IT Services Bridge contract
• USAF: Ignite scores $10M Cargo and Personnel Movement Product Line Support Services task on VETS 2
• DOD: Deloitte beats out 2 to win $467M USINDOPACOM Enterprise-Wide Professional Services task on OASIS
• Army: MORSE Corp scores $98M Artificial Intelligence solutions R&D contract
• USAF Contract Award: $98M Cyber Operations Training Support contract
• Army: Veranox Corporation awarded $25M AI/ML Cyber Assurance Services contract

🔍Looking for a specific award or other news? Check out OS’s Advanced Search Function here Did we miss highlighting your key win? Message us at support@orangeslices.ai.

🌟ICYMI: Recent M&A/Equity Backing News:

• Rune Technologies: $6.2 Million (Seed) Raised For Defense And Military Logistics Platform
• HashiCorp officially joins the IBM family
• IBM to Acquire DataStax, Deepening watsonx Capabilities and Addressing Enterprise GenAI Data Needs

🚀 Have you checked out OS AI’s newly launched GovCon M&A Page? Track all of the latest M&A activity here

🎯Events and Updates: The Gov may be in quiet mode, but here are a few more to check out:

• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Forum & Expo

Track More Federal GovCon Events Here.

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

• Dawn Halfaker, Sudhakar Kesavan Join Harmonia Board of Directors
• Connected Logistics re-appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 3 for Development and Services
• MetaPhase Honored with Prestigious 2025 ServiceNow Consulting & Implementation Partner of the Year Award
• Advantex Consulting awarded GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract and so was Bravent

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• ICE Pre-Solicitation: Internet Based Threat Risk Mitigation and Monitoring Services
• ICE to award HSI Imaged Document and Exemplars Library (IDEAL) 2.0 Sole Source
• VA Pre-Solicitation: Data Quality Technical Analysis & Functional Support
• FDA RFQ: Facility Management System Systems Administration and Data Management
• DOI BIA RFQ: Comprehensive Academic Management System 2025 Annual Maintenance
• DOE Solicitation: DNN System Engineering and Integration Support and Independent Technical and Programmatic Analysis
• DISA RFI: Capacity Services Communications
• Army Draft RFP: FY 2025 Cost Analysis Support (CAS) IDIQ
• Navy RFI: Software Dev Support of Condition-Based Maintenance Plus Enterprise Systems

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Magpie Health Analytics: Telling Stories, Connecting Data, & Building Trust to Transform Healthcare – Looking back on a decade’s worth of experience focused on CMS, Bil Westerfield shares some insight into how this team has become a trusted advisor and partner, advice for others who may wish to follow suit, and what’s ahead for this growing firm as it looks to expand its reach, and relationships. Read on here.

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