Every GovConFeed story on IBM — contract awards, policy, enforcement, and protests, newest first.
DARPA advanced Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ to Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, where government evaluators test hardware against utility-scale goals for 2033. IonQ said its agreement is worth up to $300 million through 2029, with funding beyond the initial obligation tied to future appropriations.
Read the story →NASA named 364 initial awardees for the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI contract vehicle on June 22, 2026, covering hardware, software, cloud, and cybersecurity across three categories with a $20 billion ceiling each and a 10-year ordering period through October 31, 2036.
Oracle Corporation secured a $395.8 million, 10-year contract from OPM to replace 100+ legacy HR systems under the Federal HR 2.0 program, consolidating human capital management for roughly 2 million federal civilian employees. A protest window remains open for Workday.
The Department of Commerce has issued letters of intent with nine companies totaling $2.013B under the CHIPS and Science Act, with IBM leading at $1B plus a matching investment to build a quantum foundry in Albany, NY, alongside GlobalFoundries, PsiQuantum, D-Wave, and others.
The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative — established March 2025 — uses the False Claims Act to pursue federal contractors that misrepresent compliance with civil rights, equal opportunity, and nondiscrimination requirements in their contracts; the IBM settlement is the first but explicitly not the last action under the initiative.
IBM resolved allegations that race- and sex-conscious DEI employment practices on federal contracts violated anti-discrimination requirements, marking the first settlement under DOJ's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative launched in May 2025.
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