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FedScoop
APRIL 11, 2024
Back in 2016, the General Services Administration announced the launch of the U.S. Digital Registry, a database for tracking official government social media accounts, mobile websites, and apps. Currently, there are 463 user accounts on the registry, according to GSA, though it’s not clear how actively it is used by the public.
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FedScoop
DECEMBER 4, 2024
“This commonsense bill will reduce waste, strengthen cybersecurity and modernize government operations.”
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Open Contracting Partnership
JULY 21, 2023
David is the founder of reAcción , a grassroots anti-corruption civil society organization that empowers young people in Paraguay to fight for government transparency and social accountability. Most e-governance technology that attempts to turn citizen feedback into actionable recommendations, is really about upward accountability.
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
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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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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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.
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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Whistleblower Network News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
This settlement reinforces the importance of holding accountable health care providers who seek financial gain above quality patient care.” Attorney Andrew Luger for the District of Minnesota stated, “Businesses who engage in improper Medicare billing practices undercut the legitimate provision of healthcare services for patients in need.
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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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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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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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FedTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Federal government cybersecurity breaches rose by 453 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2021, according to the Government Accountability Office. To combat and overcome these threats, federal IT administrators can use IP packet capture to examine network traffic for security threats using Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon).
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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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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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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.
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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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.
Federal News Network
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The Government Accountability Office found last January that out of the 24 agencies they reviewed for software licenses management, Microsoft was the most common, with agencies reporting it 36 times for a total of about $2.4 billion in spending. Microsoft is the first of what is expected to be many enterprisewide deals.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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Federal News Network
JANUARY 18, 2024
The two provisions in the NDAA around OTAs were minimal, including asking the Government Accountability Office to report on the Defense Department’s spending through this process. Between 2016 and 2022, Robinson said DoD has taken about 15,000 OTA actions, which includes both new agreements and modifications. billion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Federal News Network
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
But the Council doesn’t meet very often and no one at the top seems to pay any attention, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). You know, since 2016, roughly 2018, that’s sort of what they’ve been attempting to do. And so that’s really the intended function.
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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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FedInsider
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
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. Close Chief Security Officer, Delaware Dept.
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Kluwer Arbitration
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
2021) 4 SCC 379 (“ NN Global 3J ”), a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court held that arbitration agreements would not be rendered void on account of the main contract being insufficiently stamped as commented on in a previous post. In N N Global Mercantile (P) Ltd. Indo Unique Flame Ltd.
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Kluwer Arbitration
MARCH 4, 2024
2016-39 ), a bilingual (English and Spanish) UNCITRAL arbitration under the UK-Bolivia bilateral investment treaty (the “Treaty”). The analysis must be conducted on a case-by-case basis, assessing the reasonableness of Bolivia’s conduct in the specific circumstances and taking into account the country’s resources.
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