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NASA has said it is ahead of schedule towards the completion of Gateway, a space outpost that would support manned lunar explorations under the Artemis effort, Space News reported Tuesday.

Federal agencies obligated $8.56 billion for competitively awarded contracts during fiscal 2017 through a program that is set aside for socially disadvantaged businesses, Bloomberg Government reported Monday. The figure reflects a 24 percent increase in competitive awards under the 8(a) program since fiscal 2011, according to the report. Contracts awarded …

A Government Accountability Office report indicates a decline in the Defense Department’s sole-source contracts worth more than $20 million that are awarded to small businesses under the 8(a) program. The number of DoD 8(a) sole-source contract awards began to drop below 20 in 2011 upon the implementation of a new Federal Acquisition Regulation requirement for a …

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy to the assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, has said the service branch has not made a decision on whether to award a sole-source contract to replace 25 of its UH-1N Huey helicopters, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Richard Whittle writes Bunch told members of the …

Some federal agencies have cited a 30-day “cybersecurity sprint” launched in June 2015 to justify noncompetitive information technology contracts they have awarded, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes the Office of Management and Budget introduced the cyber exercise in order for agencies to address software vulnerabilities, adopt two-factor authentication and …

Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator of the Small Business Administration, has announced that the federal government awarded contracts worth approximately $17.8 billion to women-owned small businesses in fiscal year 2015. She said in a statement published Wednesday the government has exceeded its goal to award 5 percent of all federal small business contracts …

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to award business intelligence technology provider GoodData a three-month contract to analyze data from the agency’s internal social network. HHS wants to acquire an analytics software that can mine information posted to the department-wide social networking platform Yammer, an Aug. 29 …