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Cyber

DISA Readying Final RFP For Potential $12 Billion, Single Vendor IT Consolidation Contract

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, September 3rd, 2020

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DISA Readying Final RFP For Potential $12 Billion, Single Vendor IT Consolidation Contract

DISA is readying to release a final Request for Proposals in late September for its potential $12 billion, single vendor contract to consolidate the Pentagon’s ‘Fourth Estate's’ network capabilities. During a pre-solicitation conference in August, DISA officials said a contract award for the Defense Enclave Services (DES) program is slated for December 2021. “Our role here is to migrate these [Fourth Estate] defense agencies from their legacy commodity IT networks to a single network we’re calling DoDNet, which DISA will…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]