TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The Army’s six-year journey to implement a modern contracting writing system is about to hit a key benchmark. After testing its minimum viable product with about 100 users at 29 different sites over the summer, the Army plans to triple the number of users in the early part of 2024. Over the last 15…
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TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Global tech researcher Gartner has found that only 33 percent of SAP users relying on its legacy ECC ERP system have bought or subscribed to licenses to start their transition to S/4HANA. The data from Q2 2023 also showed that while a third of ECC users had failed to buy S/4HANA in any form,…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Chatbots can now invent new recipes (with mixed success), plan vacations, or write a budget-conscious grocery list. So what’s stopping them from summarizing secret intelligence or drafting detailed military operations orders? Nothing, in theory, said AI experts from the independent Special Competitive Studies Project. The Defense Department should definitely explore those possibilities, SCSP argues,…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, recently launched the Army Contract Writing System, a platform designed to provide the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement with a single enterprise writing and management system to streamline the Army contracting process. The initial user group includes 104 contracting…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The Government Accountability Office sustained 93 legal challenges to National Institutes of Health’s embattled solicitation, CIO-SP4, concluding that the agency “unreasonably failed” to advance proposals past the first phase on their evaluation. In a statement, managing associate general counsel for procurement law at GAO Kenneth E. Patton said the agency’s decision to not advance…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) No action appears likely to resolve the 130-plus protests involving this $50 billion IT vehicle, which indicates the Government Accountability Office will decide on the contract’s next steps Everything points toward full hearings on the objections raised more than 130 protestors regarding the $50 billion CIO-SP4 contract for IT solutions. A small handful of…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Edge computing has become a much talked-about element of federal IT infrastructures in recent years. But what is edge computing? At the time, the plan was to begin certifying contractors as soon as 2020. For one thing, the word means much more than a small data center somewhere out there. In fact, many interrelated…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) “Every single business doing any kind of business with the Department of Defense will need to get certified and get a third-party audit that they have basic cyber hygiene.” It’s been nearly four years since former Pentagon official Katie Arrington said those words and unveiled the “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification” during a May 2019…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Farooq Mitha, director of the office of small business programs at the Department of Defense, said he expects the current administration’s next budget proposal to reinstate the Rapid Innovation Fund to make it easier for small enterprises with novel ideas to do business with DOD, Defense News reported Tuesday. Since 2019, Congress has not…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The agency has decided to reopen discussions with bidders, which means these two companies that protested can still get positions on the systems modernization vehicle. It looks like something in the protests filed by IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton over a $2.6 billion IRS blanket purchase agreement have gotten that agency’s attention. Accenture and…
