ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 20, 2024

Jason Motte has been appointed as strategic account manager of federal mission support at Rancher Government. In his new role, Motte will use his knowledge of cyber operations and strategic initiatives to help customers embrace digital transformation, the Reston, Virginia-based company announced Thursday. Previously, Motte served as a U.S.

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Redstone Government Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Every small business that receives a Federal Government cost reimbursable contract is expected, by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), to have a “sound internal control environment, accounting framework, and organizational structure.”

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Special Operations Command, has assumed the position of account executive for the Special Operations Command unit of SOS International. Chris Pateras , formerly director of operations at the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A multi-account strategy is important for Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector customers because it is the foundation of cloud governance and compliance. Public sector customers using a shared account model can improve security and operational efficiency by adopting a multi-account strategy.

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Redstone Government Consulting

MAY 7, 2024

If you want to provide cloud-based services to Federal Agencies, you will need to get your service approved through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) managed by the FedRAMP Program Management Office.

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Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Army Corps of Engineers and the Army had the most appeals pending, followed by the Navy and the Defense Contract Management Agency (“DCMA”), which handles appeals of cost disallowances and Cost Accounting Standards (“CAS”) noncompliance determinations. Source of Cases Pending October 1, 2023 Army 146 Navy 145 Air Force 75 Corps of Eng.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some of the key capabilities and benefits of the Generative AI Sandbox on AWS include: Secure, governed, and isolated environment – Deploy to an isolated Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control who can access the sandbox and what actions they can perform.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 7, 2025

Jeff Harman has an affinity for every step and aspect of the government contracting process, especially the competitive capture pursuit and the accountability enforced by government clients. Harman is a U.S.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

She brings to the role over three decades of industry experience in business development and account management. Candy Bishop, formerly senior director of capture and business development at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as vice president of enterprise capture, according to a LinkedIn post.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“The intent of this program is to redefine the moving experience of our military personnel and their families, and to deploy an IT backbone with intelligence to retain data and knowledge that allows for optimization and importantly, accountability. So I expect more noise in that sense. Am I concerned about the rate structure? No, I’m not.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ensuring all of the steps are in place to migrate securely to the cloud will be important to creating a safe EHR environment,” says Larissa Manor, advanced technology account… “IHS is planning for a new electronic health record, and as a part of this implementation, there will be some transition to the cloud.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity in an account and an AWS Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. AWS Control Tower is built on top of AWS Organizations , which allows customers to group accounts and centralize billing.

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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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Coleman Jackson, P.C.

MAY 1, 2023

By: Coleman Jackson, Attorney & Certified Public Accountant May 1, 2023 So many Americans died during the Covid-19 Pandemic! Many families learned during this period of hardship and lost that estate planning and asset protection is not merely for the powerful and well-to-do but is for everyone.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An audit of four agencies found they’d implemented continuous monitoring for only three of 15 systems collectively as of May 2023, according to the Government Accountability Office. CSPM can…

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Federal News Network

JUNE 3, 2024

A new report from the Pandemic Responsibility and Accountability Committee (PRAC), said agencies that took three broad steps, such as preparing for an emergency by maintaining a crisis-ready staff, were better prepared to limit improper payments during the COVID-19 emergency.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Government Accountability Office report released in December raised some concerns about federal agencies’ ability to prepare for and respond to cyberthreats. Twenty of 23 agencies failed to meet cybersecurity incident response requirements laid out in Executive Order 14028, specifically in their investigation and remediation capabilities.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Mike Eppes, director of public sector at Keeper Security, said password management is one of the areas the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program addresses and defense contractors should account for such requirements. He noted that the Department of Defense and contractors must advance zero trust adoption.

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FedScoop

JULY 15, 2024

Late last week, the Social Security Administration announced that long-time users of the agency’s online account system would have to switch to Login.gov, the government-wide identity management and sign-on service created by the General Services Administration.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Growing GovCons are concentrating on automating accounting practices and being compliant, which in and of itself is a

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The main difference, according to Dallas Breckon, federal executive account manager at CDW, is that these challenges go underreported. Over the past decade, Native American tribes and tribal enterprises have faced many of the same cybersecurity challenges as other organizations in both public and private sectors.

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FedScoop

MAY 8, 2024

The bill’s requirements come directly from recommendations in a September 2023 Government Accountability Office study that Connolly requested. “I Gerry Connolly, D-Va., pushes the EPA to update the IT system for storing AirNow and the Air Quality System (AQS).

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Inside Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

IaaS providers to (i) submit reports to the Department when a customer transacts with the provider to train an AI model that could be used for malicious cyber-enabled activities and (ii) ensure foreign resellers of IaaS products also conduct identity verification of foreign account holders. cloud computing sector. If the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 9, 2025

Its important for us to be accountable to them and understand they are the end user and beneficiary of our procurement. What we thought about when I came into MOCS was transparency by default, and understanding that we are accountable to taxpayers. People are central to a healthy procurement environment.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Agencies don’t always implement their continuous monitoring plans because that would require a new philosophy toward cloud security, according to Dave Hinchman, director of IT and cyber at the Government Accountability Office.

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FedScoop

MAY 15, 2024

Lawmakers also underscored the need to fund accounts that haven’t reached their full funding potential under the CHIPS and Science Act, “particularly those related to AI.” Among the accounts the lawmakers listed was the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, which is aimed at boosting U.S.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Andrew MacWilliams, a senior account executive at Precision Talent Solutions since August 2021, has been appointed chief innovation officer at the government-focused recruitment and talent management company. He will oversee the Washington, D.C.-based

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ExecutiveBiz

JULY 16, 2024

Craig McIntire currently serves as vice president of the Department of Homeland Security Account within SAIC’s Civilian Business Group. In this role, he oversees the full spectrum of the company’s DHS portfolio, which includes a wide variety of information technology and engineering services.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 3, 2024

Sean Dunn, former senior director of accounting and special projects at Comtech Telecommunications, was named vice president of business planning and analysis at BigBear.ai, according to his LinkedIn announcement. Most notable in Dunn’s industry career is his combined 16-year stint at the former L3 Technologies company.

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Whistleblower Network News

AUGUST 23, 2024

In his speech, Grassley highlighted different examples of how whistleblowers have provided his office with information to help increase transparency and accountability within the federal government. It’s a full time, year-round job.” Whistleblowers make a difference.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Justin Raisor, advisory board member of the Tribal Cyber Training League, cited Cisco’s estimate that Native Amercians make up less than 0.005% of the tech workforce in the United States, despite accounting for nearly 3% of the country’s population.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. A clause in the Defense Authorization law for 2025 has procurement attorneys sitting up in their chairs. Chris Griesedieck: Right.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Government Accountability Office highlighted that the FDA’s medical device cybersecurity formal agreement is five years old and needs to be updated with the help of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a move that would improve agency coordination and clarify responsibilities.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 8, 2024

Failing to inform employees of their right to blow the whistle causes a chilling effect throughout the agency, weakening accountability,” says whistleblower attorney Stephen M. “The ATF is in violation of the law and must immediately cure its defective memo.” Kohn of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

The Government Accountability Office publicly released a decision on Thursday in support of a company's protest of a $44.2 million Department of Agriculture task order for software support for conservation-related programs, concluding the order was not properly issued.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 2, 2024

The bill left the House floor in May via voice note under suspension of rules after the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability marked it up in September and passed the bill unanimously. This follows a second appropriations package for fiscal year 2024 that would rescind $100 million from the funding vehicle.

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Government Contracts

JULY 5, 2024

In a year marked by 6-3 splits, what accounts for the departure? When the high court limited the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of rioters who stormed the Capitol, the justices did not vote along ideological lines. Here are some moments from oral arguments that may have swayed the justices.

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