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Maxar Intelligence Chief Dan Smoot Eyes Expanded Offerings, Increased Imaging Capacity With Full Legion Launch

ExecutiveBiz

Maxar Intelligence CEO Dan Smoot recently said that he is prioritizing the rollout of the WorldView Legion satellite constellation , which was supposed to begin launching in 2021. The constellation will comprise six satellites in all, with the first two set for launch in the next few weeks.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

on average in 2021 to 10.23 in 2021 to 4.2 According to data from the public procurement business intelligence (BI) module of Kazakhstan , the share of single-source purchases in the general government procurement market has steadily declined from 57% in 2021 to 23.5% The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0

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Former IRS staffer who managed IT contracts pleads guilty to bribery charges

FedScoop

conducted two bribery schemes over four years in his capacity as a computer engineer supervising IT subcontracts for the IRS, according to the DOJ. When the owner of the company said in February 2021 that they would no longer pay Thukral, the IRS employee threatened them with “economic consequences.”

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2023 Year in Review: Switzerland (Part I: Scope of Arbitration Clause, Capacity of Discernment, Res Iudicata)

Kluwer Arbitration

Part I focuses on the scope of arbitration clause and its validity in the context of a party’s (in)capacity of discernment, as well as on the new developments regarding res iudicata. ’s request, the Ecuadorian court ruled on 4 February 2021 that the block should be removed, and a new birth certificate issued for A. In 2018, A.’s

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Why Fugaku, Japan’s fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

AWS Public Sector

Since its completion and the start of full-scale operations in March 2021, Fugaku has been used by numerous fields in response to social needs. When Fugaku was running on premises, it was “at 95 percent capacity and constantly full,” said Dr. Matsuoka. Fugaku will make the innovation cycle much faster,” said Dr. Matsuoka.

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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria. Second, because those which presented themselves and complied with the criterion did so while being constrained in their decision making of what industrial capacity to use.

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