Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 5, 2024

Out of 813 registered cases of extrajudicial killings between 2016 and 2022, only one conviction was made. The primary aim seemed to be to shut us down from seeking accountability,” explained Venkatesan. They responded by filing close to 18 defamation suits against Venkatesan and his colleagues.

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Whistleblower Network News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year since 2016, Blueprint for Free Speech has awarded annual Whistleblowing Awards. s House of Lords who serves as one of the awards 3 judges.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 21, 2023

Section 804 of the House-enacted version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 would establish a “loser pays” pilot program to require contractors to reimburse the Department of Defense for costs incurred in “processing” bid protests that are ultimately denied by the Government Accountability Office.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These whistleblower disclosures allowed FWS to hold wrongdoers accountable for crimes that otherwise would have gone undetected. For example, in 2016, FWS officials busted an ongoing interstate trafficking scheme of endangered Wood Turtles. For decades, these provisions have remained virtually unknown and essentially unused.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He has been in numerous leadership roles in the private sector for over 25 years, spanning accounting, finance, technology & operations management spheres. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Virginia and Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM).

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Back in 2015 when Congress was deliberating the 2016 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), it created the Defense Cost Accounting Standards Board (DCASB). The idea of a DCASB was essentially a shot at the CASB (Cost Accounting Standards Board), who, at the time, had become moribund.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2018, the agency was told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to update its regulations to better incentivize whistleblowers. Kohn , the author of a landmark 2016 paper on wildlife whistleblower awards. While FWS did update its regulations in response to the GAO report it never published them.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 26, 2024

First deployed in 2016 , ICMP is a digital catalog with software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy for customers in the intelligence community (IC) to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Sonya Branco is set to step down as executive vice president for finance and chief financial officer at CAE (NYSE: CAE), positions she has held since 2016.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

In a report made public Monday , the Government Accountability Office outlined 37 total priority recommendations to improve how the Office of Management and Budget encourages adequate technology-related practices across the federal landscape.

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Federal News Network

JULY 24, 2024

Anytime that you have support for additional protest review, whether the court reaffirms or opens the door to a new jurisdiction, it will result in more transparency, accountability and oversight, even if it’s just affirming where we understood jurisdiction to stand already.” Source: GAO Snapshot of governmentwide contracting for 2023.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Subsequently, in 2016, the Administrative Court of Appeal in Dammam confirmed the appointment of the first Saudi woman as an arbitrator in a commercial dispute in KSA, Ms. of the KSAs workforce, up from 20% in 2016. 2) Since the establishment of the Pledge in 2016, appointment of women as arbitrators have more than doubled.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

The goal: to bring accountability and consistency to the performance management process, boosting morale and improving retention over the long term. Beckwith earned a bachelor’s in human resource management from Saint Leo University in 2014 and became SHRM certified in 2016. Recognizing the need According to the U.S.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Given that the main driver for the implementation and redesign of the system was to obtain efficiencies (aka savings) through the exercise of the NHS’ buying power, both the UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) and the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) are scrutinising the operation of the system in its first few years.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. That makes perfect sense, because in government we’re funded by business units, and how government is held accountable, traditionally, is through operational measures,” she said.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

The Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) recently announced that it seeks public comments on “whether and how” to amend the rules to clarify whether the CAS apply to indefinite value contract vehicles (or IDVs, otherwise known as indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity, or IDIQ, contracts). Comments are due no later than August 19, 2024.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –> accountability transformation.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The JRSS is another example that IT-AAC challenged when the Defense Department awarded a sole source contract to Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) in 2016. Congress, the Government Accountability Office and the Justice Department must act to stop this type of systematic corruption before we lose the next war fought in cyber space.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7 “We want to hold government accountable. Three of these cases were related to road works, repairs and upgrades.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 3, 2024

of the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2020 simply requires signing the award while the ICC 2021 Arbitration Rules and the SIAC Rules 2016 do not even mention signing the award. In contrast to these provisions of arbitral institutions in the UAE, there is no similar requirement in the rules of leading arbitration institutions.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JULY 2, 2024

Background MPIP was formed in 2016 as a result of the Smith Commission and the resultant Scotland Act that identified a number of key areas to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament. MPIP have worked collaboratively with the Social Security programme since the summer of 2016, providing a team of procurement professionals.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 13, 2024

Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones. Modernization journey The CSP launch culminated several years of application development to build a cloud-native platform for mortgage securitization.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In June 2016, Lieutenant Colonel Pimentel reported to Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 1, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan where he served as the Network Operations Officer and the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff G-6. Prior to working at Dell Technologies, Greg served 20 years on active duty in the U.S.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

Launched by the Saudi government in 2016, the Saudi Vision 2030 Program is a sweeping reform initiative with the aim of diversifying the country’s economy and reducing its reliance on oil production.

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University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

In 2016, the EU adopted the Web Accessibility Directive to foster better access to the websites and mobile applications underpinning public services – in particular by people with disabilities, and especially persons with vision or hearing impairments. As Dr Andrea Gideon and I argued in 2016 *, this is the case.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

And that doesn’t even account for an igloo-sized elephant in the room. Getty Images) Beyond the obvious climate-related hurdles of building during Nome’s extremely abbreviated summer construction season, there’s “an interesting soil challenge” that also must be taken into account, according to Steckman. “We

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 30, 2023

In other words, a failure of the arbitrating parties to make full payment on account of the DIAC arbitration costs would be considered a waiver of the arbitration obligation, terminate the underlying arbitration process, and trigger the general jurisdiction of the Dubai Courts to hear the Parties’ dispute. 13/2016). of Dubai Law No.

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

Rather, it’s about the perceptions of integrity, said Jim Richberg, head of cyber policy and global field CISO at Fortinet, who was involved in the assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. “If Iran also sent intimidating emails to voters in 2020. Generative AI will only strengthen these efforts.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Between 2016 – 2022, US K-12 schools experienced 1,619 publicly disclosed cyberattacks, with 80 percent of school IT professionals reporting a ransomware attack in 2022. To learn more and engage with the Cal Poly DxHub, reach out to your local AWS account manager or visit the DxHub website. Learn more about the AWS CIC program.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

In Canada, we have two Regions, each containing three AZs: Canada Central in Montréal, Quebec (launched in 2016), and Canada West in Calgary, Alberta (launched in 2023). To learn more about how AWS can assist with fulfilling your data protection and residency needs, consult Canada Data Privacy or speak with your AWS account manager.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Prior to joining the Treasury in 2016, Sarah Nur held numerous leadership positions in systems engineering, IT network deployment (worldwide), and operational cybersecurity supporting public and private organizations. In 2016, Edwards was recognized by FCW in its “Federal 100 Awards” as being one of the top IT professionals in the U.S.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 5, 2024

He supported this position by referring to India’s termination of 76 of 87 of its BITs in 2016. Ever since then, the Indian government has taken a more cautious approach with the 2016 India Model BIT (“India Model BIT”). The shift in India’s position has become more visible after the White Industries award and subsequent cases.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

In the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Program Procurement Guidelines (PPG) and the accompanying MCC Procurement Guidance Note: Price-Reasonableness Analysis (MCC-PGN-PRA) used by Millennium Challenge Accounts (MCAs) around the world, price analysis is a mandatory requirement during bid evaluation.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The schedules program GSA’s schedules program accounts for more than $40 billion per year in federal spending, with three quarters of the spend on services as opposed to products. The next iteration, known as SEWP VI, aims to keep climbing by adding IT professional services at the contract level.

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The Contractor's Perspective

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2014-2016, Congress authorized the Department of Energy to make transfers of $45 million to the DPA Fund from the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account. A total of $135 million was transferred between FY2014-2016. clean energy manufacturing base has become more urgent.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 7, 2024

1090/2016, 31 December 2018 Ismail Selim, Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (“CRCICA”), ITA Reporter for the CRCICA CRCICA Case No. 1090/2016 (First Industry Operator v. The ITA Board of Reporters has reported on the following awards. First Industry Operator v.

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