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The U.S. Air Force has designated the U.S. Navy’s first carrier unmanned aircraft vehicle as MQ-25A Stingray, USNI News reported Friday. Sam LaGrone writes the Navy received the official name and designation for the UAV through a July 11 memo issued by the Air Force Materiel Command. The Air Force assigned the name MQ-25A Stingray, formerly […] More
The General Services Administration‘s 18F organization has issued a request for proposals via GitHub that seeks implementation support for a consumer-facing interagency authentication platform for citizen services, FedScoop reported Friday. Billy Mitchell writes 18F wants a vendor team that could provide technical features to the login.gov identity management platform, which is scheduled to be launched in November 2016. The chosen contractor would help 18F integrate […] More
The General Services Administration has asked industry and government agencies to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for the third generation of GSA’s charge card program. The agency said Monday it will use the feedback to the draft RFP in order to refine the requirements in the GSA SmartPay 3 program, including charge card […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency will release a request for proposals for the first phase of the Defense Department‘s milCloud 2 infrastructure-as-a-service system by June 6. The contract works to support the integration of commercial infrastructure services into a private cloud platform for the DoD community, DISA said in a pre-solicitation notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps. DISA added the selected contractor will also […] More
The U.S. Air Force looks for industry partners to take part in a potential $12 million program that seeks to develop power sources and antennas for aerospace and defense uses, Military & Aerospace reported Wednesday. John Keller writes that the Air Force Research Laboratory released a solicitation Tuesday seeking partners to aid the development of the High-Powered Electromagnetics program […] More
The General Services Administration plans to issue a request for proposals on the potential 10-year Veterans Technology Services 2 contract vehicle April 21. GSA said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Tuesday the VETS 2 contract will cover information technology products and support services for federal agencies and will be a set-aside program for service-disabled, […] More
The U.S. Air Force has called on industry to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for information technology service management support to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. The future procurement is for services to manage, operate and maintain NORAD and Northcom’s classified and unclassified data, voice and video networks, the Air Force […] More
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to award security consulting firm Mischel Kwon & Associates a single-source contract to continue to provide cybersecurity methodology support services for FAA’s security operations center. FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center said in a Feb. 9 notice posted on FedBizOpps the contract has a base period of six months and three […] More
Mary Davie of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service has said both government and industry partners have helped in FAS’ preparations for a future cloud computing contract. She wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that GSA has worked with the Defense Information Systems Agency and cloud vendors to generate feedback that would help shape a new cloud services vehicle […] More
The Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center is seeking contractors to demonstrate methods for production of Global Positioning System III space vehicles. The Air Force on Friday published a request for proposals for its phase 1 GPS III satellite production readiness feasibility assessment initiative and said it will accept responses to the RFP through Feb. 23. Mike Gruss of […] More
The General Services Administration plans to issue a request for proposals on the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle on Oct. 16, FedScoop reported Friday. Billy Mitchell writes that the EIS contract vehicle will replace the Networx vehicle and expand its offerings with cloud, voice, video and other products and services. GSA issued the EIS presolicitation notice on […] More
The First Responder Network Authority moved closer to the deployment of a nationwide public safety broadband network after its board approved a national acquisition strategy and other elements of the program’s request for proposals. FirstNet said Friday the board’s approval of the “Final Acquisition Approach” and “Final Interpretations of the Act” resolutions works to support efforts to release […] More
