Federal News Network

APRIL 15, 2024

The command was initially granted limited acquisition authority in fiscal 2016, with 10 billets and $75 million in buying authority over five years. Cyber Command is aiming to expand its acquisition team and rely on flexible buying strategies as CYBERCOM becomes a focal point of cyber procurement in the Defense Department.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Emergency Arbitration The SIAC Rules 2016 (“ 2016 Rules ”) allow a party to apply for the appointment of an emergency arbitrator along with or following the notice of arbitration. The procedure has seen substantial interest from users, with 56 applications filed since 2016.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 28, 2024

When Gundeep Ahluwalia took the CIO role at the Department of Labor in 2016, technology modernization meant basic digital upgrades: delivering Wi-Fi for agency offices and putting laptops in the hands of employees. They’re a continuum: cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, emerging technologies.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. That’s very important for us as practitioners,” Evangelista said. The Defense Department is increasingly turning to Other Transaction Authority contracts (OTAs) as a mechanism to fund research and development projects.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 17, 2024

How domestic courts approach challenges to arbitration awards is of increasing importance as foreign parties often decide to seat an arbitration in a jurisdiction that they believe will provide the greatest stability to governing the arbitration process. billion escrow (approx. 8.5m) and PKR 9.23 billion (approx.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

Understanding the nature of today’s job market and the importance of effectively recruiting and retaining its employees, the HR department at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office took important steps to transform the way it evaluates employees’ and managers’ performance. At the same time, the number of applications per job decreased by 39%.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 1, 2024

In 2024, importers should brace themselves for continuing regulatory changes, and the associated compliance costs accompanying those changes. CARM Release 2 presents the most significant procedural change to the Canadian customs process in recent memory and all importers will be impacted by this change.

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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. She envisions making CX measurements as important as operational ones in evaluating the success of government programs. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 21, 2023

A 2018 RAND study found protests of DoD procurements to be exceedingly uncommon, however: Between 2008 and 2016, less than 0.3% Particularly when taken together, those data support the idea that the bid protest system serves a necessary and important oversight function, improving the integrity and quality of government contracting actions.

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Federal News Network

JULY 24, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. As OTAs continue to increase, Bell said the CFOC decision is important because it further dispels the myth that these agreements are protest-proof. GAO says the Army spent more than $6.9 In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JULY 10, 2024

It is important, however, to be mindful that gratuties laws in many states and localities (including statutes, regulations, and contracts clauses) may prohibit such conduct. For example, in 2016 the Court overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

India endorsed the request however Pakistan unilaterally retracted this request and proposed that the dispute be referred to arbitration, in 2016. The ICJ’s decision stressed the importance of respecting international agreements and fulfilling treaty obligations, providing guidance for the future implementation of the project.

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NIH NITAAC

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

2016 82 $3,357,499,727.16 Annual Award Totals By GWAC CIO-SP3 CIO-SP3 SB FY Count Amount Count Amount 2012 16 $127,460,274.93 9 $34,544,360.00 2013 48 $1,621,588,463.94 73 $910,907,874.64 2014 81 $2,294,093,294.73 118 $1,918,423,820.44 2015 79 $2,208,431,658.80 152 $1,509,447,910.31 134 $1,077,394,767.87 2017 71 $2,202,708,072.18

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IT Import Efficiency Contract 52

Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This effect can be particularly important in countries with scarce physical and human capital. Institutional Quality Matters Another important finding of our research is that the effect of public debt on growth depends on institutional quality. This is particularly important in the case of highly indebted countries.

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Thresholds Quality Influencing Finance 105

SmallGovCon

JULY 2, 2024

A recent General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report is a reminder to federal contractors about the importance of being accurate in representing small business status. We’ve written before about some of the confusion contractors may have regarding self-reporting in SAM. Company Agrees to Pay $1.75

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Kohn , the author of a landmark 2016 paper on wildlife whistleblower awards. For example, in 2016, the FWS publicized an offer of a $5,000 award for information on the illegal killing of an endangered gray wolf in Southeast Oregon. The program has tremendous potential and could revolutionize the enforcement of wildlife crime.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The point of the project, Fretwell told FedScoop, was to show how well the government was performing on certain important aspects of web page operations. Several agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor, noted the importance of the Civic Hacking Agency’s tool.

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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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Electronics Consulting Accountability Corruption 69

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 11, 2024

The general importance of climate change-related disputes can be measured on the steady increase of cases which are being brought by environmental advocacy organisations or governments in anticipation of the massive costs related to adapting to or mitigating climate change. 2 O 285/15 Essen High Court).

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021. His guest list on radio, TV, event stages, and podcast platforms has included virtually every important name in the federal government. He has covered all three branches of the federal government as a broadcast journalist since 1998.

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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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GovLoop

JUNE 2, 2023

Despite a Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Strategy that’s been in place since 2016 and a Federal Cyber Workforce Management and Coordinating Working Group dating from 2019, governments continue to struggle to find enough qualified cyber personnel.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 21, 2023

In terms of technology, we developed an app, FOCO , that allows for the national monitoring of Paraguay’s most important fund for education infrastructure, worth about $90 million annually. In reAcción, we had an important precedent to FOCO from which we learnt. In 2016, we developed the official app for the Healthcare Ministry.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 23, 2024

In its decision, the Fujitsu court emphasized the importance of upholding the contracting parties’ intentions when assessing the validity of arbitration agreements and considered when federal courts might abstain from exercising jurisdiction. Fujitsu Electronics was later acquired by Kaga Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Kaga”).

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

To put this risk in context, under the SIAC Rules 2016, any jurisdictional objection on the grounds of the existence or validity of the arbitration agreement may be made initially before the Registrar. In this period, 24 judgments of the Indian courts were rendered in relation to SIAC awards.

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Efficiency Contract Import Corruption 52

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.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 22, 2024

Two prominent AI studies that were relatively successful in predicting outcomes of court judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) and the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) and took place in 2016 and 2017 respectively, sparked curiosity over this matter. Another significant risk is bias.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

She’s also just been elected President of the African Public Procurement Network (APPN), which convenes procurement authorities from 54 countries and she emphasizes the importance of building on existing foundations to strengthen the network’s support for public procurement in Africa.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A party cannot, however, approach the court for a declaration that there is a binding arbitration agreement before it commences arbitration proceedings – see HC Trading Malta Ltd v Tradeland Commodities SL [2016] EWHC 1279 (Comm ). Dana Shipping and Trading PTE Singapore and Anor [2016] EWHC 1118 Comm.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 15, 2024

Over the years, this has led to a huge number of bilateral, multilateral and regional investment treaties being concluded throughout Africa – as of 2016 , there were approximately one thousand such treaties with an African state party. These steps have also been important for intra-African trade.

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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. Willie has an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021. His guest list on radio, TV, event stages, and podcast platforms has included virtually every important name in the federal government. He has covered all three branches of the federal government as a broadcast journalist since 1998.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 22, 2023

He emphasised the importance of arbitration to business and society, particularly owing to the present burden on the courts. This 2022 Supreme Court judgment followed the leading Supreme Court judgment from 2016 (U.2016.1558/2H), A Need for a New Danish Arbitration Act? The Supreme Court decision (U.2022.1117)

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 9, 2024

While there is progress to be made in the thought leadership space and in ensuring greater independence from governments, Professor Rajoo considered the conference as an important opportunity “ to contribute to the collective momentum propelling us towards groundbreaking advancements in the field of arbitration” in Asia.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 25, 2024

AMCC challenged this decision in 2016 before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Moreover, this judgment underscores the importance of distinguishing between domestic and foreign arbitral awards.

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Efficiency Corruption IT Government 52

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

After writing a thesis on that topic and immersing himself more in the technology, Duarte zeroed in on the mass customization of housing, eventually leading him in 2016 to Penn State, where he directs the university’s Stuckeman Center for Design Computing and helped establish its Additive Construction Lab.

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