ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 12, 2024

Anna Sever recently took on the role of president at business services provider Conduent, according to her LinkedIn account. In April 2022, she took on the position of CEO on an interim basis […]

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GovCon Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Constantino Malatesta, chief accounting officer and vice president of the Controller Office since 2022, will take over Branco’s role in the interim while a permanent successor is sought,

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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.” In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A recent report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) whistleblowers continue to face high rates of retaliation. At OAWP, the majority of whistleblower settlements and complaints addressed in FY 2022-23 stemmed from the Veterans Health Administration.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Government Accountability Office is recommending changes to how the government measures implementation of a decades-old cybersecurity law as agency information security programs continue to be “mostly ineffective.” As a result, the GAO made two recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget related to improving the metrics.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2022

Redwood City, CA – April 1st, 2022 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that it has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor in the March 2022 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Procure-to-Pay Suites report. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/reviews/home. . Michael Gallo.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Matthew Evon , director of finance at Iron EagleX since July 2022, has been named vice president of financial planning and analysis at the Tampa, Florida-based veteran-owned defense contractor.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 21, 2024

billion in revenues in 2023 — a 13% increase over 2022. Mission Technologies now accounts for nearly 25% of HII’s revenues. Fred Avila Vice President of Pricing Solutions, HII Mission Technologies Fred Avila is the vice president of pricing solutions at HII’s Mission Technologies division, which reported $2.7

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This is attributable to December 2022 legislation that mandated that medical device manufacturers submit to FDA their plans to identify and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities for any new medical device that were introduced to consumers starting in March 2023.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Government Accountability Office recently released a new strategic plan that will guide efforts from 2022 to 2027 as the agency aids federal operations and addresses the most critical issues facing the nation’s government and society as a whole.

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FedScoop

MARCH 19, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service needs to pick up the pace on finalizing its IT modernization plans or risk falling short of the transformational potential it’s been afforded by a multibillion-dollar funding infusion, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. billion on IT investments in fiscal year 2022 and $4.4

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The awards come at more and more agencies are using the initial three platforms, though data shows Amazon Business received the vast majority of the orders, accounting for 96% of all orders in fiscal 2022, according to an August 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office.

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Whistleblower Network News

MAY 24, 2024

Department of Justice in September of 2022. In September 2022, the DOJ announced that it had reached a $625,000 settlement with Instec and its owner to settle the whistleblower’s allegations. “I The BAA creates a preference for domestic products when the government purchases supplies. In 2020, a former employee of Instec Inc.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Between 2021 and 2022, the rejection rate of complaints submitted by citizens has halved from 78% in 2021 to 39% in 2022, cases resolved by auditing authorities have increased from 53% to 63%, and response times are faster, taking 262 days down from 338 days in 2021. “We want to hold government accountable.

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FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

A handful of security deficiencies in IRS information systems elevate the tax agency’s risk of inaccuracies in financial statements, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.

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GovSpend

JUNE 20, 2024

Were you aware that in FY 23, a substantial $6.23B, accounting for 8% of total federal contracts, was allocated to Small Business Innovation Research (SBIRs) and Small Business Technology Transfers (STTRs), benefiting 3,230 businesses ? Over the years, we’ve witnessed a 31% increase in spending on SBIRs & STTRs, rising from $4.7B

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FedScoop

JANUARY 26, 2024

When considering the implementation of emerging technologies, federal agencies should document changes in statutes, provide the public with information about their efforts and establish clear communication with Congress and other relevant stakeholders, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Government Accountability Office revealed in a Tuesday report that federal agencies reported over 1,000 artificial intelligence uses in the 2022 fiscal year, but warned that agencies weren't fully complying with requirements for the evolving technology.

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FedScoop

MARCH 15, 2024

The ever-increasing backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests for federal agencies is due in part to technological issues facing the workers charged with fulfilling them, a new Government Accountability Office report found. said in a statement.

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FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

“But in the meantime, we will continue to have human interaction and expert account managers to help.” During the same hearing, Werfel said that from 2010 to 2022, Congress clawed back the IRS’s budget by 25%, a fact he mentioned again at Wednesday’s event. During the ACT-IAC/DCI CX Summit in Arlington, Va.,

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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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FedScoop

MAY 29, 2024

But they also noted that the Office of Management and Budget required agencies to designate CAIOs at the executive level in an effort to improve accountability for AI issues. Singleton replaced Mek as the department’s top AI official in March 2022.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Dimitri Kusnezov Under Secretary for Science & Technology Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov [Kooz-NETS-off] was confirmed as the Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) on September 8, 2022. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Singh is passionate about process and project management.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Evidence from litigation , Freedom of Information requests and the UK’s Public Accounts Committee suggest the bandwidth taken up by the HPL and continual chasing from political referrals delayed pursuing other better, more credible offers. These were all strategies available to the UK. Yet, we chose a different path—and it cost us!

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released its annual bid protest report to the Congress for fiscal year 2023 on October 26, 2023 (B-158766). This was a 22% increase compared to FY 2022. The GAO sustain rate increased substantially from 13 percent in FY 2022 to 31 percent in FY 2023.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

A High-Level View According to the 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the global cyber workforce has reached 4.7 Government Accountability Office notes that its auditors have made 712 recommendations to federal agencies since 2010, 21% of which have not been implemented. million workers, but that still leaves 3.4

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 5, 2024

The new strategy is an omnibus of five primary strategies—Education, Public Accountability, Voice, Enforcement, and Incentives—with 60 sub-strategies aimed at cracking down on corruption across sectors and shoring up public trust in the government. The country enjoyed comparatively marginal improvements, rising to 61st in 2022 and 57 in 2023.

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FedScoop

MARCH 27, 2024

Components using facial recognition systems are required to “develop a process to account for and track system use” under the interim policy and report on that use annually to the DOJ’s Emerging Technology Board, which was established to oversee the department’s use of AI and emerging technology, and its Data Governance Board.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. 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. Learn more about the AWS CIC program.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Government Accountability Office and the National Taxpayer Advocate have previously made calls to reduce paper returns and improve the processing of such returns. The 2D barcode method, which would eliminate the agency’s current manual transcription process, has been used by several state tax agencies , some for 20-plus years.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

The bureau CDO, or BCDO, program officially began in September 2022 as a way to improve its use, governance, and management of data throughout the department. Currently, the department has hired 14 people in BCDO roles, accounting for roughly 25% of its bureaus, Khan said.

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FedScoop

JUNE 11, 2024

Starting this week, the General Services Administration is collecting common forms for new software contracts from providers and contractors in accordance with a 2022 Office of Management and Budget memo regarding software supply chain security.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 5, 2024

Out of 813 registered cases of extrajudicial killings between 2016 and 2022, only one conviction was made. The primary aim seemed to be to shut us down from seeking accountability,” explained Venkatesan. They responded by filing close to 18 defamation suits against Venkatesan and his colleagues.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Challenges to a $50 billion government-wide IT contracting vehicle, CIO-SP4, contributed to a 22% increase in bid protests handled by the Government Accountability Office, according to numbers the agency submitted to Congress. There were 368 in fiscal 2023, compared to 344 in fiscal 2022.

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Our order holds SAP accountable for misconduct that spanned seven jurisdictions and persisted for several years and serves as a stark reminder of the need for global companies to be attuned to both the risks of their business and the need to maintain adequate entity-level controls over all their subsidiaries,” said Charles E.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is a major win for whistleblowers and thus a huge win for corporate accountability,” said leading whistleblower attorney David Colapinto , a founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KKC). “A However, in 2022, 2nd U.S.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

FEMA Device Reports Download Notably, in February 2022, the Federal CIO Council released the final version of its guidance for international travel and government devices. A blog announcing the guidance noted that both government and industry employees could be targeted by foreign adversaries looking to procure government data.

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