Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Reality Winner , directed by Sonia Kennebecker, was previously released in 2021 in an earlier form and was then titled United States vs. Reality Winner.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The settlement stems from a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former employee in April 2021. From January 1, 2012, through July 5, 2021, the company allegedly failed to pay the duties it owed despite being informed of the need to do so. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman stated that Yakima Products Inc.

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GovSpend

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s important to note that SBIRs can also be awarded through grants. FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 Total SBIR & STTR $4,731,141,770.47 $4,521,650,478.15 $5,705,785,758.71 $6,235,909,563.14 $2,167,075,873.80 For this blog, I will be focusing on contracts awarded by funding agencies rather than contracting agencies.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 11, 2024

Jackson Moot Court Competition 2021 with my peers. This achievement will mark an important milestone in my professional career as I will become the first licensed to practice in both Bulgaria and South Africa. However, AFSA, in 2021, recorded an impressive number of international arbitrations (102, in fact).

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FedScoop

JUNE 7, 2024

The following year, the NRP sample was approximately 1,500, all selected with the AI-informed process, and in 2021, 4,000 returns were picked based on two different AI samples. The AI Framework emphasizes the importance of documentation to help ensure that the AI system’s objectives are met,” the GAO wrote. “It

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Federal Acquisition Policy and Procedure (PAP) 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing , sets forth “comprehensive guidance regarding the evaluation of pricing throughout the life of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program contract.” The PAP was not subject to public comment or rulemaking prior to its issuance in March of 2021.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Lisa Gomez, assistant secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, said in a statement that “ensuring workers can obtain the benefits they are entitled to is one of EBSA’s most important missions. billion since 2021 for “missing” participants, according to the release.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For background, a study highlighted that over EUR 200 billion (EUR 72 billion in imports and EUR 148 billion in exports) in 2021 benefited from EU inward and outward processing operations. The post Storage and inward processing dilemma when EU anti-dumping measures are in place appeared first on Import and Trade Remedies Blog.

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Whistleblower Network News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Senator Cassidy continued that from March to April 2021, there were 54 instances where the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) did not conduct a background check on a sponsor before granting them custody of a child. She alleges she discovered the first case of trafficking and reported it to Tara Rodas in June of 2021.

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Federal News Network

JULY 12, 2024

The differences between the BAA and TAA are important considerations as government and industry work together to address supply chain security and resiliency. The post Competing global supply chain approaches first appeared on Federal News Network.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Back in 2020 (and 2021) I went out on a limb stating that when it come down to the pandemic preparation in early 2020, ie before March 23rd the UK government did not take the risk of Covid seriously enough and did not act when it should.

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Whistleblower Network News

MAY 23, 2024

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime has recorded a staggering total of 1,971 assassination cases in South Africa between 2000 and 2021, with whistleblowers often being the targets. Between 2000 and 2021, South Africa experienced 1,971 assassination cases , with whistleblowers emerging as the primary targets.

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GovSpend

MARCH 19, 2024

The 2022 Annual Business Survey which covers 2021, estimates that women owned businesses had an estimated $2.1 As we understand the use of the set-aside program it is also important to understand the use of the NAICS codes, specifically for set-asides and sole source awards. from 2019 to 2023. million employees.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. Colombia Compra Eficiente also introduced a process for pre-market engagement.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Hashmi has been the top official at the GSA acquisition arm since January 2021. “This past year alone, FAS helped federal agencies buy more than $100 billion in mission-enabling products and services, an increase of 36 percent over the last three years.

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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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Federal News Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

Equally as important, however, is the consequential effect unnecessary regulations have on the defense industrial base. According to the Small Business Administration, the number of small business prime contractors decreased by 6%, from 69,400 in 2020 to 65,428 in 2021.

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FedScoop

MAY 9, 2024

“This pilot is only with 12 states, but obviously there’s real opportunities for growth there because building out that capability so that folks in every state can have this option will be important,” Hsiang said.

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Federal News Network

JULY 24, 2024

The most prominent case involved Space X in 2021 protesting a Defense Department award. The use of OTAs spiked in 2020 during the pandemic and after coming down in 2021 have been back on the rise in 2022 and 2023. But the determination of the court’s jurisdiction over OTAs is the real outcome of the case.

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GovLoop

JUNE 21, 2023

But the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2021 institutionalized those efforts by creating a network of state coordinators under CISA’s purview. With that in mind, Congress created the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) in 2021 for public- and private-sector partners worldwide.

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FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

At that time, DHS argued that telemetry data was “an important mission contributor to the ICE investigative process” and “can fill knowledge gaps and produce investigative leads.” The subcomponent originally rebuffed a recommendation by the OIG to stop using this data until it obtained an approved PIA.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 21, 2024

In April 2024, a law passed by the Investment Authority opened the import, wholesale, retail and export (of raw coffee, khat, oilseeds, pulses, hides and skins, forest products, poultry and livestock bought from the local market) sectors to foreign investments.

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the government’s allegations, “between January 2021 and October 2023, HMIS engaged in a systemic and fraudulent overcharging of DOE for fire protection work at Hanford.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Since high taxes on corporations disincentivize firms´ investments, an important policy question is whether the region should reduce taxation on corporate profits. In 2021, average collections were reached 3.1 CIT Revenues and Tax Rates (2021) Source: Authors’ calculation based on OECD et al. How High Are ETR in LAC?

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. Increasingly, experts, such as Gartner, urge data professionals to align their efforts with organizational priorities.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

By Torplus Yomnak, Co-Founder of HAND Social Enterprise and the Director of the Knowledge Hub for Regional Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Collaboration (KRAC) In May 2021, amid the pandemic lockdowns, a villager in Thailand took a stroll on the outskirts of their town, making an unexpected discovery that would stir the local community.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They were not made public until WNN reported on them in 2021 following a FOIA request. For example, during the 2021 fiscal year, the SEC awarded approximately $564 million to 108 individuals. The amended regulations were not made public until WNN published them in 2021 after obtaining them in response to a FOIA request.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Our online passport renewal system is an important example of how the Department is modernizing government services for the benefit of Americans and delivering on” President Biden’s 2021 customer experience executive order , Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “By

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Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

Since the contract is being tendered by CP (a public owned company) it is important to look into imputability as well, although in accordance with Portuguese legislation the Minister responsible for the transport sector has significant powers to shape the behaviours of the company's board. That I do not know if it happened.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It went down in 2021, as we saw, but it has been growing. But what we do see is that there is some growth from fiscal year 2021 into fiscal year 2022. The importance of that is it kind of helps us have an idea of what we’re looking at for the coming fiscal year. Ashley Sanderson The contracting spend has gone.

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FedScoop

MAY 7, 2024

CBP told FedScoop that it cannot publicly disclose confidential business information related to importations. import ban of certain Chinese firms.) One investigation, which was opened in September 2021 and closed after roughly 15 months, involved an accusation of forced labor and a product described as “Apple iPhone.”

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That’s why the White House made CX a federal priority starting with an Executive Order issued in 2021, which recognized that every public interaction with government is an opportunity to build or lose trust, and why state CIOs have ranked CX a top priority every year since then.

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

©Ausrine Kuze, Distorted Reality , 2021. Here I take a relatively pedestrian and pragmatic approach and, following the Cambridge dictionary , consider two ways in which ‘meaning’ is understood in plain English: ‘the meaning of something is what it expresses or represents’, and meaning as ‘importance or value’.

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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.

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The CGP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Doing so is important especially when proposed guidance rises to the level of rulemaking and/or creates new paperwork requirements for private firms seeking to participate in FAS programs. Additionally, FAS should provide the public with a notice and the opportunity to comment on proposed new operational guidance.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Identify important questions. This post appeared in a slightly different form November 24, 2021. Just like meditation, learning how to reflect also takes time. Carve out small chunks of time that works for you and be open to the practice. Don’t get discouraged if you’re unable to concentrate. Favorite.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

PAP 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing, is one such example. The new FAS structure provides an opportunity to increase transparency through sustained engagement with industry in this important area. Given the significant pricing policy changes outlined in the PAP, it should have been subject to public review and comment.

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