VA HTM & T4NG/CISA CIO/USCG Web/115 SSA Cyber/USDA STRATUS/GSA FALCON/CDC EHR/NOAA NEXRAD/DOE NMMSS/HHS Grants/USAF IJSTO News; DOI/CISA/USDA moves

🌟 From Visibility to Velocity: Scaling the GovCon Marketing Function – Stacey Piper chats with Megan Battaglia, VP, Marketing at Thundercat Technology, to discuss marketing maturity, why CXOs should treat marketing as an operating model, and how internal alignment, messaging clarity, and strategic positioning drive revenue impact. Listen here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• OASIS+ Recompete Ahead for USAFCENT IJSTO Mission Support Work
• USDA details STRATUS recompete for APHIS VEHCS, PCIY, LAWGS support contract
• VA details recompete timeline for Transition Assistance Program (TAP) Support contract
• Eight Dept. of Education Expiring Tasks Expected to Draw a Crowd in 2027
• Red Team’s Blake Harvey makes the case that most GovCon firms have hidden IP. Few are using it
• Tim Teal can no longer stay quiet. Small Businesses, the backbone of innovation, are being left out
• Brad Reaves | Stephen Bacon: The back and forth on Mentor Protege past performance eval is real
• Partner anyone? Craig Mount: Yes – Nemean Solutions is 100% going to bid S-TRIG on OASIS+ 8(a)
• Army Capability Prog Exec Simulation, Training, Test, Threat Activates Project Lead Office
• GSA’s new AI clause drives contractors to sound the alarm
• State Dept Creates New Bureau of Emerging Threats
• DHA takes (temp) step back on $78M Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) action
• GAO: AI – IRS Actions Needed to Address Skills Gaps, Info Quality and Strategic Management
• State Dept focused women-owned small businesses to know – Meet them here.
• Arctas: NuAxis Innovations, ECS, Tsymmetry, IBSS, Parymon Corp, Indigo IT, Terrestris, Greystones Group, OneZero Solutions
• 🍊OS AI Insider Scoop:  Major GSA IT Recompete on Horizon as Consolidation Effort Takes Shape. IBM Work in Play Not Yet an Insider? Plans start at $295 annually

Most Viewed Comment:

• Navigating VA Acquisition & Small Business Opps – Yesterday was such a great event …  Session 1 – IHT 2.0 may have been the most packed room. Glad I was tuned in. More here.

⏰ Did you miss yesterday’s packed VA event? Last Chance to register for today’s free event to hear takeaways from industry SMEs Mike Vogel, Eric Gonzales and Melinda Pitchford (to include updates from SPRUCE’s mini PMR) (Sponsored by The Baldwin Group) and there is still time to register for this Friday’s post VA OIT APBI Happy Hour

Also today:

• NuAxis GovCX Collective hosts Leading the Way: Women Driving IT Excellence

A Few Upcoming Events to Focus Your Pipeline and Strategy:

• NIH-Wide Strategic Plan (FY 2027–2031) public webinar
• Air Force Virtual Industry Day: Strategic Plans and Policy Support Services – FY26
• Save the Date: The DLA Supply Chain Alliance Symposium & Exhibition is back
• Basecamp Briefings: Army MAPS is Back in Action

🔍⚖ GAO and the Courts

• VA Protest Filed: T4NG-0760 | DexteriTech Solutions
• NASA Protest Denied: Johnson Space Center Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS)
• Army Protests Dismissed: Materiel Command Engineering, Logistics, Cybersecurity, and Administrative Support

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

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

• CISA: Preston Werntz is the Acting CIO
• CISA’s Chief of Staff Andrew McCarthy now CTO for WH Office of Anti-Fraud Initiatives
• DOI names Lee Suttta as Div Chief, Emerging Technology and Innovation
• NIST: Devika Daga tapped as AI Enablement Lead driving AI Pilot
• DOI taps Rita Moss as Sr Exec – Dep Chief Human Capital Officer for Operations
• US Cyber Command (J9): Tim Israel now Technical Director for Defensive Cyber Ops
• Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G-6 welcomes two new IT Execs – Allen Strunk and Denis Gizinski
• Former USDA Exec Elvera Gleaton now SVP at SNAP
• Chip George takes position as President, US Federal at Mpathic
• Leidos recruits Major General Christopher Craige (USAF Ret.) to drive USAF Account success 
• and several growth-minded Execs take on new challenges: Ruth-Ann Nowakowski to Xcelerate Solutions (DOW) | Jeffrey Keen to Xcelerate Solutions (Fed Civ) | Joshua Crabtree to Dexia | Wes Postol to System High | Gabriel Smith to Oasys International | Dalton Gillispie to Harness (FedCiv)

Missed OS AI industry moves? 🍊Insiders can see the full report here. Did we miss highlighting your key hire? Message us at support@orangeslices.ai