GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Huntsville, Alabama-based contractor said Thursday Hammett previously led Radiance’s space group and he joined the company in September 2019

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WashngtonExec

MAY 28, 2024

Since 2019, Rodriquez served as deputy of this division. ManTech has promoted Jen Rodriguez vice president of its intel sector division. Rodriguez will report directly to ManTech’s Intel Sector President Barbara Haines-Parmele.

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 29, 2024

According to the government, in 2019, Dr. Dreyer resigned from his position at Providence St. Dreyer and his surgical judgment from his time at Providence, but, recognizing that he was a ‘workhorse,’ made the decision to hire him and allow him to begin seeing patients and performing surgery at Deaconess Hospital in July 2019.”

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office established the Project Pele endeavor in 2019 with the goal of producing a transportable micronuclear reactor. This energy source would be secure, environmentally sound and able to generate one to five MegaWatts of electricity for at least three years of full-power operation.

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GovCon Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

When the Space Development Agency was stood up in 2019, it was mired in skepticism from across the Department of Defense.

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Art of Procurement

JUNE 20, 2024

In 2019, Pioneer Natural Resources, an independent shale oil producer in West Texas, was worth $24 Billion. Their CEO, Scott. The post Former Pioneer Oil CEO Scott Sheffield – Colluder or Scapegoat? appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

billion in 2019). Along with the promise to completely transform the digital landscape, 5G — the fifth-generation standard for broadband cellular networks — will bring changes to cybersecurity practices and protection as well. 5G download speeds are expected to be 100 times faster than currently possible with 4G.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

She joined the company in June 2019 and led enterprise project management functions to transform its development, processes and Anne Guevara was elevated to the role of vice president of PM capabilities at BAE Systems‘ U.S.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The scandal, often called Fishrot , came to light in 2019 through whistleblower Jóhannes Stefansson. Odee’s spoof of Samherji’s corporate website was created on samherji.co.uk. Samherji’s lawsuit challenges the boundaries of parody.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 19, 2024

One reason that agencies have continued to use cloud services that are not FedRAMP authorized is that OMB has not adequately monitored agencies’ compliance with the program, as we recommended in our December 2019 report,” the report said. GAO has labeled that recommendation a priority.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JULY 10, 2024

Back in March of 2019, the CASB published a Discussion Paper to collect initial input on the need for CAS 408 and 409 based on the changes that had been made to GAAP since the 1970’s.

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Redstone Government Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

DoD issued a proposed rule dated August 15, 2024 ( DFARS Case 2019-D041 ) to amend DFARS to incorporate contractual requirements related to the Cybersecurity Maturity Module Certification (CMMC) Program. This implements a section of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2020 to enhance cybersecurity for the US defense industrial base.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I also think a lot of companies under COMET didn’t have capabilities to bid back in 2019,” said Gissa Sateri, the director of the civilian business unit at SAIC. “I COMET blasted through expectations GSA awarded COMET in October 2019 to 12 companies for a range of IT services focused only on the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS).

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FedScoop

JUNE 7, 2024

The IRS first piloted AI techniques for sampling tax returns in NRP audits during the 2019 filing season. The tax agency selected 4,000 returns for audit through that new AI-powered methodology, while an equal share was chosen through its traditional selection process.

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Inside Government Contracts

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The district court finally unsealed Weiner’s FCA complaint in August 2019—approximately seven-and-a-half years after initial filing—but never issued an express order that Weiner serve Siemens AG with the summons and complaint. Because the complaint was unsealed in 2019, they maintain, the service period has long since lapsed.”).

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And they appear to show that the FBI was looking at this tool from 2019 to 2020, and then picked up interest again in the technology relatively recently. But a September 2019 email obtained by FedScoop indicates that MITRE’s algorithms were “up and running” on FBI servers.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 11, 2024

in 2019, and headed up business development until his recent promotion to president. Brian Loggins joined Reinventing Geospatial, Inc., He has a broader set of responsibilities now, but the mission remains essentially the same. Whether it’s military [.]

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) discovered the unlawful possession of a golden eagle talon and other bird parts in Kilauea, Hawaii in July 2019. According to WNN’s exclusive reporting , from November 2019 through August 2022, FWS only paid out twenty-one whistleblower awards in total. Thanks to a brave whistleblower, the U.S.

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GovCon & Trade

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From 2019 to 2022, the sustain rate hovered around 13-15%. Increase in the sustain rate. In FY 2023, the sustain rate increased to 31%. Again, the report caveated the increase with the GAO sustaining 119 protests involving the CIO-SP4 procurement. Without the 119 sustains, the sustain rate would remain at about 14%.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JULY 15, 2024

Back on March 13, 2019, the CASB published a Discussion Paper to collect initial input on the conformance of CAS to GAAP. Then on November 5, 2020, the CASB published a notice of proposed rulemaking specifically addressing operating revenue and lease accounting.

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 24, 2024

The new document expands upon procedures first laid out in 2019 for reporting financial anomalies to the Office of the Auditor General. On January 24, the Vatican issued new procedures on whistleblowing , recognizing the critical role whistleblowers play in exposing corruption and financial misconduct.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 13, 2024

billion in FY2023, the report explains. That uptick “will likely continue” until most of the IRS’s legacy systems are decommissioned, TIGTA said.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2019, the then Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government introduced the National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019-2023 (NACP), a comprehensive five-year roadmap aimed to combat corruption and address critical governance challenges. Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2019, the U.S. In 2019, the U.S. According to reporting by WNN, FWS only paid out four whistleblower awards under the ESA from November 2019 through August 2022. This is part of a series of WNN exclusives on whistleblower awards paid out by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to wildlife whistleblowers.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 5, 2024

Notably, Avenger Products LLC has a track history of OSHA violations that amount to 40 citations and $254,189 in penalties between June 2018 and December 2019. ” The DOL is seeking for Avengers Products and Kittrick Corp.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 15, 2024

The Government Accountability Office found that the median DoD-wide award lead times decreased by more than 20%, from 41 days in 2019 to 32 days in 2022. For example, the award time on orders valued over $50 million increased by 70 days in the last four years.

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Inside Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As described in more detail in a prior client alert , Section 889 contains two prohibitions.

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SmallGovCon

AUGUST 23, 2024

South Carolina Residents Ordered to Pay $50,000 Fine and More Than $400,000 in Restitution Following Their Conviction in “Rent-A-Vet” Construction Fraud Scheme Targeting the United States Department of Veterans Affairs GSA releases FY 2025 CONUS per diem rates for federal travelers Navy’s journey to new procurement system remains in peril Prime Contractors (..)

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 5, 2024

According to the government, “from December 2011 until February 2019, Methodist had a multi-agreement affiliation with the West Clinic and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Two qui tam whistleblowers alleged that Methodist defrauded Medicare by illegally paying kickbacks to physicians.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Despite a lifetime of excellent health, stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer eventually ended his grand adventure, following a May 2019 diagnosis. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2019, he struggled with the emotional and spiritual roller-coaster of terminal illness. In retirement, Mike also launched another career as a U.S.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 28, 2024

He has been with Peraton for over five years, joining the company in April 2019 as director of FP&A,

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Randolph has been with Blue Delta since 2019. Kevin Randolph, an associate at Blue Delta Capital Partners, has taken on the role of principal at the Tysons, Virginia-based growth-stage venture capital firm focused on the U.S. federal government market. He announced his promotion in a LinkedIn post published in late February.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Morgan Higgins, a principal at Blue Delta Capital Partners since 2019, has been promoted to partner at the Tysons, Virginia-based venture capital firm, GovCon Wire has learned. Mark Frantz, general partner at Blue Delta, said in a statement published Monday Higgins is a recognized industry leader and the firm is excited to have her as

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2019, Pierson testified before the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee. In August of 2018, Pierson left Boeing, citing inadequately answered safety concerns as a primary reason for leaving. In the ensuing months, two MAX airplanes crashed, killing hundreds.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

An agency spokesperson said in an email to FedScoop that the cyber risk assessment process — recommended to the EPA in a July 2019 Government Accountability Office report — is on track to be finished “by November 22.” The EPA had previously told the GAO that it was committed to a “late summer to early fall” timeline.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

The journey to Windows 10 in 2019 was rocky for a number of federal agencies, especially given the looming deadline for Windows 7 end-of-support in early 2020. FedTech reached out to federal IT leaders and asked them what they learned from that experience that might apply to the move to Windows 11. We talked to Maj. Jacqueline D.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, a 2019 report by the Office of the Inspector General for Veterans Affairs revealed that these bodies were failing to fulfill their missions of protecting whistleblowers. Since then, GAO has released annual reports on the handling of whistleblower retaliation cases by OAWP and OSC.

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