27M NIH IT/DHS ADEMS/IRS Data/NASA EHR/135M USAF Analytics wins; CMS PIMMS/SEC AI/ML/NOAA ProTech/89B NIH NCI Troubles; DHS/HHS/VA/DHA/CDAO Exec moves

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• Org Charts Scrubbed and Forecasts Frozen: An HHS Information Blackout
• HHS IT Elite Shuffle: Key Execs Relocated as New CTO Office Rises
• Army CIO stands up DOGE Sidecar IT Acquisition Advisory Program and Army CIO absorbs Business Systems Modernization Office
• Partner Request: DOD WHS RFI: $510M Multiple-Award Joint Data and Analytic Support Services IDIQ
• Department of Commerce focused HUBZone small businesses to know – Meet them here.

🎉 Events to Get in on Now:

• Last Chance: Red Team 12th annual Golf Tournament in support of Homestretch
• AFCEA Huntsville Tech Luncheon with Steven Rush Director of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center
• Defense Information Systems Agency, in partnership with the Fort Meade Alliance, presents DISA Business Match
• It went so well the first time, so why not! – RSVP: Civic Tech Happy Hour hosted by Abigail Haddad

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🌟IronArch – Stepping into Its Next Phase of Growth with Intent and an Eye to New Long-Term Partnerships – OS AI connected with senior leaders at recently rebranded IronArch, to find out more about this major VA Partner, SPRUCE Prime and Inc 5000 honoree’s winning ways and what’s ahead. Read on here.

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

• Sarah Green Named Deputy Chief Procurement Officer at DHS
• Top CISA officials who led Secure by Design initiative resign
• VA names Lana Gemmell permanent Director, Digital Health Experience/Product Delivery
• CMS CMMI names new Strategy Chief
• DHA taps Chief for Engineering, Solutions Architecture & IT Business Analytics Division
• Douglas Matty Wins Pentagon CDAO job
• ICF promotes Jin Chun to role as Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• EMKS Names Major General (Ret) James Bonner as President and Chief Strategy Officer
• Shawn Matheny joins HumanTouch as Account Exec, strengthens strategic IT Leadership
• Samuel Hale II takes role driving Business Development at Xpect Solutions

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

• Protest Filed: SEC AI/ML Support Services contract
• Protest Filed: NOAA ProTech 2.0 – Weather Domain
• Protest Dismissed: $30+M CMS Practice Improvement and Measures Management Support (PIMMS) Re-Compete
• Protest Dismissed: $89B NIH NCI Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) contract award
• Fresh Protest Filed: Defense Health Agency | HT001123R0056 | SOFITC3
• Protest Filed: NASA Safety and Mission Assurance Services (SMAS) III
• Protest Filed: DOD Washington Headquarters Services | HQ0034-25-R-0019 | One Federal Solution Corporation
• Fresh Protest Filed: DOD OASD Special Operations Low-Intensity Conflict Oversight (SO/LIC) Technical Support Services

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