CMS HSAG/VA IFAMS/IRS ECM/CISA CyberH/USPTO DevSecOps/70M DOW AIOps/Navy CHACS/104M FAA V&V/Army TADSS/DLA EIIA JETS/DOS Cyber/VA Agentic AI Scoop

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• CMS April Opp Forecast is out – NPD, Medicare Coverage Tools (MCT) 3.0, Enterprise Operations BPA Recompete and more…
• VA Pulls Back on Agentic AI Opportunity After Market Research Phase
• Department of State Seeks Innovative Cyber Defense Solutions from Industry
• USTRANSCOM CSO Targets IT, Cyber, and Logistics to Advance Global Mobility Mission
• DLA’s April issue of “The Link” is out. Chock full of information on how to work with DLA.
• HHS Announces $4M KidneyX EMPOWER Prize Challenge and Health Tech Project
• Energy needs ‘a lot more’ funding to reach Genesis Mission goals, official says
• $70M IDIQ goes to AIOps leader Striveworks to Scale AI Deployments across Defense
• Air Force focused HUBZone small businesses to know – Meet them here.
• Arctas: A Few Companies Moving the Needle: Two Six Tech, Electrosoft, Leidos, OMNI, Axle, Arlo
• 🍊 OS AI Insider Scoop:  Another party jumps into the fight for the Challenge of $600M DHS App Dev contract Not Yet an Insider? Plans start at $295 annually

🌶️ Industry Hot Takes:

• Katie Helwig: OASIS+ Weather Report: MRAS Signals 🌩️One in a 5-part Series – Pattern…Not just the RFPs—but what happens before them
• Red Team: SBIR/STTR 2.0: What the Reauthorization Means for Industry
• New T4NG2 Prime Technatomy expanding ecosystem: seeks teammates
• Tom Bahrami: FedWizard.ai, built specifically for federal contracting, is live. Check it out

M&A: Post Acquisition Moves Abound:

• On heels of Sev1Tech acquisition, ERT Rebrands as Entarian to Reflect Integrated Mission Solutions Platform
• Following Maveris acquisition, Harmonia Rebrands as Revolutional to Accelerate Innovation Across Gov Missions

🔍⚖ GAO and the Courts

• Courts Deny Injunction in DHS FLETC Support Services Protest Despite Evaluation Flaws
• Air Force Protest Withdrawn: Learning Management System Transition & Support Services
• Navy Protest Filed: Military Sealift Command | N3220526Q7095 | MDR Services

🍊OS AI Insiders can Track all the latest protest activity here.

🌟GMU AI-in-Gov’s Inside the Black Box – Building Resilience: AI, Risk, and Real-World Decisions: Richard Jacik and Amarda Shehu chat with Catalina González-Dueñas to explore where AI is making meaningful progress, where it falls short, and what it takes to translate tech insights into practical action. Listen here.

The Juice🥤: These firms and agencies are making strategic moves:

• CMS names Joy Day Acting Deputy Director, Enterprise Systems Solutions Group
• CMS DSIEC Division Leader Robert Flemming takes new challenge with DoW
• Jim Harrell tapped as CISA Assistant Director
• State Department taps Admin and Logistics App Lead Inderpal (Rani) Virk as Acting Director DT/EA/ALA
• FDIC names Richard Huffine Chief of Library, Archives, Records & Information Services
• Chitra recruits recent Naval Station Norfolk Commanding Officer Matt Schlarmann
• Agile Six taps two new Chiefs – Jennifer McLaughlin for Delivery and Melissa Schaff for Innovation
• 2026 Elev8[X] Honoree Coforma taps 4 new Fed Health and Vet Services Growth Leads – Hoover, Shapland, Eberi-Lefko and Schloendorn
• and several growth-minded Execs take on new challenges: Adib Chowdhury to 22nd Century (Health) | Theodore Ryerson to Bowhead (Army) | Rob Cooke to Cribl

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