Contracts
CACI wins $2B NASA IT centralization job
The space agency is looking to standardize and consolidate how it manages IT systems and applications.
Companies
Clarity Innovations, Chameleon complete their merger
Clarity undertakes its first significant transaction as a portfolio company of Capitol Meridian Partners.
Ideas
Move Guardsmen into the Space Force? You'll lose most of them instead
Air Force leaders don’t understand why people serve in the National Guard.
Route Fifty
3 more states could see marijuana legalization on November ballots
In some states, lawmakers don’t want legalization, so advocates turn to ballot measures.
Civil
The rush to return humans to the Moon and build lunar bases could threaten opportunities for astronomy
The rush to build bases on the Moon could interfere with the very conditions that make the Moon so attractive for research in the first place.
Defense
Space Force awards $1B ground system software contract
The service branch hires 20 small businesses to help move along the development of a new system that leans on commercial cloud.
Politics
Nancy Goroff wants another shot in the 1st District. John Avlon says he’s more viable.
The Democratic congressional primary will decide who challenges GOP Rep. Nick LaLota in the eastern Long Island district.
Policy
All 51 City Council members back internet affordability program in new letter
After the expiration of the Affordable Connectivity Program, the council wants U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to extend funding for the subsidy program.
Defense One
Move Guardsmen into the Space Force? You'll lose most of them instead
Air Force leaders don’t understand why people serve in the National Guard.
Defense
Missile threats are proliferating. Here’s how the Pentagon is trying to keep up
A booster tweak might improve an anti-ICBM weapon while a next-gen missile-spotting constellation comes online.
Civil
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
While very small meteoroids are common, larger ones – bigger than a dishwasher – are not.
Defense One
Air Force tests AI-designed, 3D-printed drones
Qatar-based Task Force 99 is also eyeing a new U.S. component.
Nextgov
Bipartisan House bill offers NIST help
The Expanding Partnerships for Innovation and Competitiveness Act would create a separate organization dedicated to helping NIST with its mission objectives.
Exclusive
Defense One
Pentagon pauses development of its go-to data analytics tool
New data chief orders infrastructure improvements to Advana platform, which tracks Ukraine aid and many other things.
Nextgov
VA still needs to shore up usability of new EHR system, GAO says
More than one-third of the government watchdog's priority open recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs have to do with improving oversight and management of the new electronic health record system.
Management
White House enlists doctors and hospitals to combat gun violence
Calling gun violence a “public health crisis,” the Biden administration is asking state and local health departments, health systems and hospitals to boost their data collection on emergency room visits for firearm-related injuries.
Defense One
Sophisticated Army training goes mobile to knit a farflung Pacific coalition
The service took its Hawaii-based center to the Philippines, part of a regional campaign of joint and combined training.
Management
Court rules for DHS employees alleging their division was disbanded in retaliation to their whistleblowing
The decision sets a new precedent for federal employees that denied promotions -- even if never fully promised -- can amount to retaliation.
Nextgov
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
While very small meteoroids are common, larger ones – bigger than a dishwasher – are not.
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