HHS NPDB/DHS PACTS III Protest📰; CMS IM Ops/99M FDA IT/VA Maximo/74M USPTO AI/62M DHS AICSS BPA/EPA ACRES IT/NIH Grants IT/103M USSOCOM Apps sppt win

The Juice🥤: Big Investments do not guarantee Big results, but they do signify intent! Here are several Federal and Industry leaders who are set to make an impact in the second half of 2024

• NIH CIO takes new challenge as Deputy Director for HHS OCIO Operations
• ODNI names new Deputy Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Center
• DISA Names Raju Shah to New CXO Position
• Digital Consultancy Raft recruits William Bal to serve as SVP Growth
• ex-FBI IT leader Roger Miller tapped to be VP with Paradyme
• Mark Peters Named New MITRE President and CEO
• CyberKinetics recruits new Chief Growth Officer
• M1 Support Services recruits James Cassella to serve as Chief Growth Officer
• Michael Jerabek promoted to Chief Delivery & Strategy Officer with JOS Group
• DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory recruits Scott Dix as Information Systems Security Officer

🔍 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. Some of the latest Protest Action:

• Protest filed challenging a $120M HHS National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) BPA award
• Protest Dismissed: $8.4B DHS PACTS III IDIQ
• Decision Released: Navy Cost Estimating and Cost Analysis Support Services protest denial

🐝The Buzz – Keeping you in the know

• Liz DeBiase “Sooooo, are we going to talk about USASpending.gov’s new look?”
• Registration Now Open for the highly anticipated 4th Annual GOVJAM on September 12, 2024
• ICYMI: CMS OAGM to host a Virtual Reverse Industry Day
• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is on the hunt for a new Innovation Chief

⚡Contract Awards actions to close out the week!

• Precise Software wins $99M FDA CFSAN IT Lifecycle Development and Management Support BPA
• LMI wins again, adds $46M CMS Issuer Management Ops, Plan Analytics & Review contract
• Contract Award: $90M CMS Nursing Home Nurse Staffing Outreach Campaign
• Contract Award: HHS Advance Data Sharing (ADS)
• Contract Award: $13M NIH ERA Enterprise Grants Management System Software Development
• ThunderYard Liberty JV wins VA RTLS Maximo support task
• Contract Award: $74M USPTO Patent Search Artificial Intelligence Models support
• Contract Award: $103M USSOCOM Technology Applications Program Office support
• Contract Award: $22M Air Force Stock Control System (SCS) Support and Sustainment
• Contract Award: $71M Army HR Command Sustainment of Existing Applications Portfolio (SEAP)
• Contract Award: U.S. Special Operations Command C4ISR Support
• Contract Award: $62M DHS OCFO Assessment of Internal Controls Support Services (AICSS) BPA
• Contract Award: $19M Army Natick Enterprise Center (NEC) IT Services (ITS)
• Contract Award: $9M US Air Force MPES Applications IT Support
• Contract Award: $8M EPA IT Support for Brownfields Redevelopment System (ACRES)
• DHS CBP OCIO inks $206M contract with Four Points for Amazon Web Services

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

• MORI Associates supports NASA and NOAA  in the launch of the GOES-U satellite
• Unison Virtual Acquisition Office (VAO) Releases Generative AI Tool Which Provides Answers to Simplify Complex Federal Acquisition Regulations
• Omni Federal Receives Strategic Investment from Madison Dearborn Partners

📢 Most Viewed Comments on OS AI
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🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• 8(a) STARS III Primes eye Summer RFP for DHS ICE HRIT Digital Transformation Services (DTS)
• DHA shares Health Care Delivery Solutions (MHS GENESIS) Industry Engagement Registration details
• NIH RFP: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network Dissemination Initiative
• DISA awards USCENTCOM Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Bridge to LightGrid
• IRS RFI: Identity Theft (IDT) Detection and Identity Theft (IDT) Innovation
• Pre-Solicitation: DHS HQ Cybersecurity Assessments
• Pre-Solicitation: DHS USCIS Cyber Security Artificial Intelligence Support (CAIS)
• DCSA has a new roadmap for delayed background investigation IT system
• U.S. Copyright Office looks to overhaul its enterprise copyright system