Palantir’s no-bid pipeline just got bigger
A new $244M Pentagon memo skips the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s process for sole-source justifications and urges agencies to find ways to work with the company. Palantir has secured another lucrative commitment from the Defense Department, with a pledge of up to $243.9 million in funding for the company’s software between now and March 31, 2027. Deputy […]
America’s infrastructure boom has a people problem
Closing the infrastructure industry’s talent gap will determine which projects actually get built over the next decade, writes Brian Jordan, chief growth officer at GISI Consulting Group. The Project Management Institute projects a global shortfall of up to 30 million project professionals by 2035. It’s a number that’s easy to read past, until you consider what it means on the ground: infrastructure projects […]
NASA insourcing push to cost Amentum 3% of revenue in 2027
NASA is taking over more technical and operational work from contractors like Amentum, which laid out both the financial impacts of that to investors and explained where it still has plenty to do for this customer. NASA lost 22% of its civilian workforce in 2025, including scores of staffers assigned to science and space exploration programs. […]
DCS loses latest protest, but the challenges might not be over
DCS’ challenges to the Army’s corrective action involving this $251.7 million task order are dismissed, but the opportunity to raise objections remains if the contract again goes to Amentum. The Army’s support contract for soldier protective equipment program has survived a fourth bid protest and the fight might not be over yet. The Government Accountability Office […]
Amazon Web Services’ Dave Levy departs for Google
The senior executive has worked at AWS since 2017. Dave Levy, vice president of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, has left the cloud computing and AI giant for a role with one of its primary competitors: Google. Levy’s last day was Friday, July 31, an AWS spokesperson confirmed to Nextgov/FCW. A Google spokesperson declined to comment on […]
