Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Photo: Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han) Prof. Daein Kim Professor Daein Kim of Ewha Womans University’s School of Law (Seoul) is visiting Washington with a team of fellow researchers from South Korea to share lessons learned on humanitarian assistance in fragile states. Professor Kim previously visited George Washington University Law School as a Visiting Scholar, and he is a long-time friend of and fellow researcher with GW Law’s Government Procurement Law Program

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 1932, Aldous Huxley published the book Brave New World. At the time, the actual world was perched between World. The post Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Defense Department released the final rule for the long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program today, further paving the way for CMMC requirements to show up in contracts starting next year. The final CMMC program rule was released for public inspection today. It’s expected to officially publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Let me be clear: we don’t want any form of semi-automation or full automation. We want our jobs—the jobs we. The post East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Department of Energy has awarded four companies spots on a potential 10-year, $2.7 billion contract to procure uranium enrichment services to help establish a domestic supply chain of high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, used for deploying advanced nuclear reactors.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

MITRE, the federally funded operator of research and development centers on behalf of agencies, unveiled plans this week to train three new artificial intelligence foundation models in critical infrastructure, weather modeling and sustainable social services. The Federal AI Sandbox, a supercomputer, is expected to be capable of training large-scale foundation models and supportive of generative AI, multimodal perception systems and reinforcement learning decision aids, according to a Wednesday p

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During her visit to Armenia on July 10, 2024, Samantha Power, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, announced $5 million in funding for a new public-private collaboration between USAID, the Government of Armenia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The collaboration will be delivered through USAID’s Enterprises for Development, Growth, and Empowerment (EDGE) Fund , launched to leverage the private sector’s competitive edge to solve global challenges.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The nature of global conflict has changed, extending the battlefield beyond the physical realm and into the cyber domain. As physical barriers continue to fall and global tensions rise, the United States has recognized the need to master cyber combat, but so have its adversaries.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Social Security Administration is off track on recouping the costs it took to create and maintain a database aimed at helping banks catch a form of identity fraud, a new watchdog report found. Launched in June 2020 to comply with the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act of 2018, the SSA’s electronic Consent Based Social Security Number Verification (eCBSV) service was pitched to financial institutions as a way to combat synthetic identity fraud, a practice in which

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Businesses should build up a comprehensive artificial intelligence intellectual property portfolio as part of a strategic IP management approach that aims to maximize exit valuations or funding opportunities, according to Keegan Caldwell, global managing partner at global law firm Caldwell.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Solicitor General's Office will defend private citizens' ability to sue for E-rate fraud on behalf of the government under the False Claims Act, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the solicitor general's request to participate in oral arguments in an AT&T subsidiary's challenge to the law's application.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The finalists for WashingtonExec’s 2024 Pinnacle Awards were announced Sept. 20, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. 21. Next is Christopher Bogdan, executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and finalist in the Space Executive of the Year, Public Company, category. Here, he talks about recent [.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Activity is constantly moving across and into the theater of the Middle East and central Asia, with sizable impacts for global security and global commerce. There are countless “ripple effects” from this area, such as Iranian drones that have appeared on battlefields in Ukraine.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Federal leaders feel immense pressure to modernize legacy applications to improve user experiences and accelerate mission outcomes. As Americans’ expectations of government services continues to grow, harnessing generative AI (GenAI) provides leaders with opportunities to improve delivery through streamlined software development, enhanced workforce efficiency, and strategic decision-making.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Mike Moran, a seasoned space industry professional, has been named director of U.S. government business at Amazon subsidiary Kuiper Government Solutions, according to a LinkedIn post he shared Sunday. Moran previously served as senior vice president of defense and intelligence systems at Terran Orbital and chief operating officer and co-president of PredaSAR.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A Florida federal court's decision in Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates last month will deprive relators of their ability to bring suits under the False Claims Act, limiting their capability to expose and rectify wrongdoings and potentially affecting billions in FCA recoveries, say Matthew Nielsen and Lily Johnson at Bracewell.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The cyberthreat landscape is constantly evolving, introducing new challenges, expanding vulnerabilities and leading to more sophisticated hacks and breaches. Since the COVID-19 pandemic shifted much of the workforce to remote and hybrid environments, government and industry found ways to secure home workspaces while continuing to fulfill critical missions.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The U.S. Space Force has begun soliciting offers for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide radar, computer and communications support for the service branch’s missile warning, missile defense and space domain awareness efforts worldwide.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

On October 16, U.S. authorities announced major settlements with defense contractor RTX (formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation) over allegations that the company violated both the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and False Claims Act (FCA). The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $950 million settlement while the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a related $124 million settlement.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence company C3 AI announced the appointment of retired U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten to its board of directors, effective immediately. The company said Thursday that Hyten, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will work alongside other board members to shape C3 AI’s strategic direction.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The U.S. Department of Defense on Friday finalized a rule implementing its sweeping Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, which will attach a minimum cybersecurity requirement to nearly all DOD contracts.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

An abbreviated rundown of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s artificial intelligence work goes something like this: a dozen use cases , a pair of completed AI security tabletop exercises and a robust roadmap for how the technology should be used. Lisa Einstein, who took over as CISA’s first chief AI officer in August and has played a critical role in each of those efforts, considers herself an optimist when it comes to the technology’s potential, particularly as it relates to

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Zach Whitman, the General Services Administration’s chief AI officer and data scientist, reminds his colleagues that the GSA was one of the first agencies to adopt email and internet access for the government workplace. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that GSA has fully embraced experimenting with generative AI, an emerging technology that has similar potential to transform the workplace, Whitman says.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the defense landscape, and especially at the tactical edge, communications are critical to the success of the mission. But often, our nation’s warfighters are in denied and degraded environments with barriers to connectivity and communications. The solution to this challenge is decentralized comms, according to SpiderOak CEO Dave Pearah.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Serco Inc. announced a re-compete contract award from the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The $33 million, five-year contract with a 9-month base plus four one-year options will enable the continued delivery of psychological health outreach, the company said Thursday. Commenting on the contract, Serco Inc.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Check out my podcast recording with Eric Coffie of Govcon Giants. In this podcast, we talk about about key strategies that can help small businesses succeed. From the importance of understanding the Small Business Administration (SBA) rules to forming effective joint ventures and teaming agreements. Check out this recording and a lot of other great recordings from Govcon Giants.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 15, 2024

After deciding on a rocky mountain pass near Mt. Hood in Oregon earlier this year that he would join the General Services Administration as the agency’s new FedRAMP director , Pete Waterman has wasted no time in pursuing a slew of changes for the cloud services compliance program. In an interview with FedScoop, Waterman said he’s planning to dedicate the next several years of his career to ushering in those changes, including with an updated FedRAMP roadmap coming in the next two months and the

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

After years of cogitation, the Defense Department has finalized one of two big rules for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification System (CMMC). It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, least of all the tens of thousands of affected contractors. Yesterday we heard from the Professional Services Council with an industry-wide take on CMMC. For a close-up look, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to procurement attorney Eric Crusius of Holland and Knight.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Federal contractor Core4ce has acquired Azimuth as part of a push to expand its national security capabilities in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, threat protection, artificial intelligence and machine learning and warfighter support.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Engineers from L3Harris Technologies and Palantir Technologies have optimized edge computing platforms using artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in support of target detection and delineation advancement efforts. In a demonstration, L3Harris said Monday the team equipped a fixed-wing aircraft with L3Harris’ WESCAM MX-Series electro-optical/infrared imaging systems and Palantir’s Sensor Inference Platform.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

On October 10, U.S. authorities announced that TD Bank agreed to pay $3.1 billion in penalties and pled guilty to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the nation’s primary anti-money laundering (AML) law. TD Bank will pay $1.8 billion in penalties to resolve the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation and $1.3 billion to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) and Scottish Borders Council are set to host the 3rd annual Meet the Buyer South event on 29 October at The Volunteer Hall, Galashiels. Focusing on one-to-one in-person networking, Meet the Buyer South 2024 will allow your business to connect with “real” buyers, procurement teams and decision makers from across the public sector, as well as private contractors with supply chain opportunities and business support providers, all under one roof.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Over the course of his 14-plus years at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Nick Langle has learned a thing or two about the chasm that exists between the internet’s haves and have nots. As a principal investigator for the Department of Energy-funded Community Power Accelerator , Langle spends his days researching web sustainability and human-computer interaction in the pursuit of expanding access to affordable solar energy.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Artificial intelligence is taking the federal government by storm. This rapidly advancing technology has shown immense potential for a wide range of Department of Homeland Security missions, one of which is securing the border.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 17, 2024

AI software company Primer Technologies has introduced its enhanced artificial intelligence platform that can achieve a near-zero hallucination rate when analyzing and summarizing large volumes of data. The company said Monday its updated AI platform uses RAG-V, a proprietary technology that can capture over 99 percent of errors before they reach users.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

For the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a tribe of nearly 40,000 in Shawnee, Okla., guarding against a potential loss of data related to its history, language and culture is a huge priority. That means protecting tribal history at CPN’s Cultural Heritage Center museum and data in the Tribal Rolls Department, which handles membership, including tribal enrollment, burial insurance and tribal ID cards.

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