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DoD’s multi-billion dollar moving contract faces another legal challenge

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that a GAO review of the GHC contract is now underway. Over the past four and a half years, the Defense Department has faced at least four separate rounds of bid protest litigation challenging its multi-billion dollar overhaul of the military’s household goods moving system. It’s […]

A vague Pentagon memo has some contractors on edge

An acting undersecretary has told managers throughout the Defense Department to review contracts for consulting services. Not just a casual review, but with an eye towards terminating or what Steve Morani called descoping them. This comes as agencies are terminating service contracts across the government. The Professional Services Council has been tracking all of this. […]

Empower AI Appoints Laura Evans as VP of Human Resources

Laura Evans, an experienced human resource leader, has joined Empower AI as vice president of HR. The executive confirmed her new role in a recent LinkedIn post. Who is Laura Evans? Evans comes to Empower AI after eight years at Oasis Systems, a defense and space manufacturing company based in Burlington, Massachusetts. She previously served […]

Trump administration tells agencies to begin conducting reductions in force

Trump administration tells agencies to begin conducting reductions in force The RIFs directive from the White House is the latest step the Trump administration has taken to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Drew Friedman@dfriedmanWFED February 26, 2025 1:14 pm 3 min read The White House is directing agencies to start the process of […]

Implementing AI well means revisiting your enterprise architecture

To many federal technology leaders, the rise of artificial intelligence, and now especially generative AI, will have a significant impact on their mission. This means everything from automating routine tasks to helping mission area experts accelerate and improve their decision-making to advancing research and development more rapidly. As with any technology, agencies need to continually […]

USAID: Considerations for contractors, recipients

It is probably an understatement to say that the presidential transition has caught the U.S. Agency for International Development and its community of contractors and recipients by surprise. Between a first-of-its-kind agency-wide pause of foreign assistance programs to the apparent effort to dismantle the agency and transfer its functions to the State Department of, officials, […]