SmallGovCon

MARCH 22, 2024

Military The post SmallGovCon Week in Review: March 18-22, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog. Made Washington State Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Marketing and Selling Low-Quality Ballistic Protective Equipment Produced in China to Dozens of Law Enforcement Agencies and the U.S.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to a Deltek report, DHS agencies invested over $1 billion into contract awards in 2023, and by the end of fiscal year 2024, the department’s contract obligations are expected to hit up to $12 billion — over 11 percent of its $103.2 billion budget.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has a budget of $3 billion for fiscal year 2025, $1.7 Hear directly from CISA officials about budget priorities and upcoming contract opportunities at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Homeland Security

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The whirlwind of artificial intelligence tools in 2023 proved the government is eager to embrace the technology as soon as possible.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JULY 1, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a final rule revising 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) , now called OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance, to streamline and clarify the rules for federal financial assistance (e.g., Agencies must implement the Final Rule by October 1, 2024. grants and cooperative agreements).

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SmallGovCon

APRIL 19, 2024

Former Veterans Affairs Procurement Supervisor Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Pocketing Kickbacks Readout of Roundtable on Project Labor Agreements for Large Federal Construction Projects Breaking Down the DOD’s New Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy Accenture Federal Services acquires major federal contractor How legislators could (..)

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 requires them to meet zero-trust objectives by the end of fiscal year 2024. “Because if you tried to do it sequentially — maybe networks first, then data, then identity — it would take too much time.” And for federal civilian agencies, the clock is ticking. That includes…

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 8, 2024

This was the topic of the event Racial Equity Budgeting: Lessons from the United States and Brazil , which was organized by the Inter-American Development Bank and took place in September 2023. We discussed how racial equity budgeting works and how cities and states are applying this instrument to reduce racial inequality.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Under the ACCESS Act, the Office of Management and Budget would be instructed to issue guidance for agencies to implement the bill within 180 days of its enactment. that was finalized in February 2024. The Coalition’s 2024 Spring Training Conference – What is Fair and Reasonable, Part 2: Let’s Continue the Dialogue!

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

billion budget for the U.S. Space exploration is soaring to new heights. In 2023, Congress allocated $25.4 billion to NASA, a 5.6% hike from the previous year. Additionally, lawmakers approved a $26.3 Space Force.

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FedScoop

MAY 17, 2024

Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif, ranking member of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who asked about the impact that further cuts might have on research priorities on top of the roughly 8% cut the science agency already took in 2024 appropriations. billion in the fiscal year 2024 appropriations to $10.18 Haley Stevens, D-Mich.,

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Department of Defenses budget for fiscal year 2024 was $824.3 billion, a sizable amount of which was devoted to acquisition and procurement from the industrial base.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 5, 2024

Even as Congress takes up spending bills for a fiscal year already half over, budget watchers are preparing for release of the administration’s 2025 wish list. With all the votes in the president’s budget. So, there’s really a lot of interest in what’s in this FY 25 budget.

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FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

As the IRS’s Direct File pilot approaches the end of its 2024 runway, a new watchdog report finds that the tax agency’s cost estimates for the program were incomplete and would need “a comprehensive accounting” ahead of a potential takeoff in 2025.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Investment Management and Office of Information and Technology Budget Planning Services contract is expected to be awarded some time in the second quarter of 2024 under the One Acquisition Solution

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Friday, November 15, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 90 Minutes | 1.5 The White House released Executive Order 14110 in October 2023 on the “safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use” of AI, followed in March of this year with an Office of Management and Budget memo providing guidance on improving governance and managing the risks of AI.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

The National Archives and Records Administration and the Office of Management and Budget jointly set a deadline of June 30, 2024, for all federal agencies to manage all permanent records in an electronic format. While some agencies are…

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

The Department of the Interior is beginning to look at AI because it will be part of the SAP S/4HANA financial management system it’s implementing by 2024. Generative AI describes deep learning…

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Just three of the 23 civilian Chief Financial Officer Act agencies have met the cyber event logging standards called out in President Joe Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order and a subsequent Office of Management and Budget memo, a new Government Accountability Office report found.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Wednesday’s release comes after MITRE’s original announcement that it would provide an AI sandbox — which is powered by AI data center infrastructure from NVIDIA — and a subsequent statement that the sandbox would be available by the end of 2024.

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FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

A Government Accountability Report issued earlier this month, meanwhile, found that the IRS’s budget estimates for Direct File didn’t include start-up costs for the technology behind the system. The post IRS touts Direct File usage, while mulling the future of the program appeared first on FedScoop.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 18, 2024

Leslie Tillman Vice President of Pricing, Empower AI Empower AI views 2024 as a year full of growth chances, but also one with challenges. These include combining digital change, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence for federal agencies, along with uncertainty about budgets and funding.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Explore the 2024 Fall Training Conference Agendas: Now Available! The Coalition invites you to explore the agendas and register for the 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! What’s next for the budget and Federal market? What’s next for GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program?

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

Frankly, in some cases, they try to paralyze government by heightening hyper-partisanship… if you have a Congress that cannot pass a budget, you don’t worry as much about them taking foreign policy actions.”

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 26, 2024

On April 4, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Budget, wrote a letter to Gary Gensler , the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), expressing concerns about delays and lack of transparency in the agency’s whistleblower compensation. from FY 2021, organized by month.

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FedScoop

JULY 12, 2024

As the federal government awaits final guidance from the Office of Management and Budget meant to modernize and reform the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, one of Capitol Hill’s top federal IT modernization advocates believes that the program is “undeniably” in a state of limbo until that guidance is issued.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 15, 2024

On April 10, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) spoke at a Senate Budget Committee hearing “Sunny Places for Shady People: Offshore Tax Evasion by the Wealthy and Corporations.” The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Program offers monetary awards and anti-retaliation protections to individuals reporting large scale tax fraud.

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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

Modernizing the governmentwide compliance program for cloud services has been top of mind for Washington IT leaders in recent years, most notably with the passing of the FedRAMP Authorization Act in 2022 and the release of an Office of Management and Budget draft policy memorandum on overhauling program operations and governance in 2023.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Meeting procurement requirements laid out in 2019 Office of Management and Budget guidance on cloud strategy has been a mixed bag for federal agencies, a new congressional watchdog report found. And all but one agency — the Small Business Administration — addressed the OMB mandate to “iteratively improve agency policies and guidance.”

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 required the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Management and Budget to develop guidance for securely procuring IoT — networked technology and devices typically connected to physical objects like buildings, vehicles and other infrastructure.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 15, 2024

With the first official day of Spring next week, it seems to be a perfect time to formally announce our planned agenda for our upcoming 2024 Spring Training Conference – What is Fair and Reasonable, Part 2: Let’s Continue the Dialogue!

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

elections, evolving policies and funding uncertainty, 2024 will be especially competitive. By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek The government contracting market is a challenging and competitive space.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2023

rule by fall 2024 in response to increasing cyberattacks on its supply chain by foreign adversaries. is expected to be released by the Office of Management and Budget for… The Pentagon plans to finalize its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0

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FedScoop

JUNE 26, 2024

31, 2024 and subsequently put into effect by the end of 2025, OSTP noted that some agencies have already posted plans for policy development. All “covered agencies” have submitted their plans for policy development to both OSTP and the Office of Management and Budget, per the report.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Office of Management and Budget is stepping up its oversight of Internet of Things usage throughout the federal government, calling on agencies to deliver an inventory of their “covered IoT assets” by the end of fiscal year 2024.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Army Contracting Command received one bid for the fixed-price-incentive contract via an online solicitation and obligated funds in fiscal 2024 foreign military sales budget at Army to provide spares, components and ground support equipment for the government of Romania’s Patriot missile defense system.

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WashngtonExec

JANUARY 8, 2024

Customers have indicated budgets are a challenge, and the budgeting process is made harder when appropriations aren’t done in a timely manner. Paul Smith CEO, Rancher Government Solutions This year was a year like no other in the public sector space, said Paul Smith.

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