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.

Engineering 105

Engineering Accountability 105

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Kusnezov has served in scientific and national security positions, including Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, Chief Scientist for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Director of Advanced Simulation and Computing and the Director of the multi-billion-dollar National Security Science, Technology and Engineering programs.

Accountability 142

Accountability Consulting Leadership Collaboration 142

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 22, 2024

Chaos engineering is one component of resilience testing that helps to assess and enhance the robustness of our systems. Chaos engineering, often misunderstood as intentionally breaking the production environment, aligns with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Reliability pillar.

IT 120

IT Engineering Education Integrity 120

SmallGovCon

MARCH 6, 2025

After a complicated procedural history, GAO said that an agency must take into account a corporate transaction and novation, even if the agency wasn’t aware of the novation at time of proposal submission. 2024), the Air Force sought cyber protection and engineering support under the GSA VETS II contract.

Evaluation 71

Evaluation Bidding Government Contracts Accountability 71

FedScoop

MAY 2, 2024

The Government Accountability Office is concerned that NASA still hasn’t incorporated cybersecurity practices into required agency policies, particularly for its major spacecraft projects. Even though the space agency has included cybersecurity elements in some of its contracts, they need to be standardized.

End to End 119

End to End Risk Management Accountability Engineering 119

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 10, 2025

Outposts already provides robust capabilities for resource sharing in multi-account environments. Organizations can share Outposts and their associated resources across multiple AWS accounts in the same organization in AWS Organization s using AWS Resource Access Manager ( AWS RAM ).

Thresholds 52

Thresholds Utilities Accountability Capacity 52

FedScoop

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Government Accountability Office estimates that federal agencies lose up to $521 billion annually due to fraud. This stolen data fuels fraud schemes across multiple channels, including call centers, where social engineering attacks often target inexperienced staff. Download the full report.

Integrity 68

Integrity Integration Import Data 68

ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why does Accounts Payable Need Heroes? In Accounts Payable, it’s the Supplier inquiry. Conversations should include stakeholders from engineering, product management and operations, and other areas that are impacted significantly by supplier performance. . Pay on time.

Supplier 52

Supplier Accountability Eprocurement Supply Chain 52

Telles.eu

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On this one the discrimination against internal combustion engines is explicit since only these would be subject to an analysis of pollution arising from their running. Well, this requirement is mandatory for internal combustion engines but optional for 100% electric ones. This is, self-evidently, discriminatory and as thus, illegal.

Green Public Procurement 124

Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Award Criteria Procurement 124

ExecutiveBiz

MAY 13, 2024

Joshua Thiel has taken on the role of vice president of growth and business development at systems engineering and integration firm Chartis Federal. Thiel said on LinkedIn that his new position entails overseeing efforts to grow Chartis Federal’s client base and introduce new offerings.

Accountability 52

Accountability Engineering Integration Integrity 52

American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

No question, more local governments are facing cyber threats in 2024, says Tim LeMaster, vice president, worldwide systems engineering at Lookout. Now, criminals are using advanced social engineering and phishing tactics to target individuals’ legitimate credentials. His firm is a data-centric cloud security company.

Dwell Time 110

Dwell Time Engineering Accountability Data 110

GovSpend

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In FY24, they accounted for 59.87% ($464.2 Combined, these four categories account for over 54% of all federal contract awards. Notably, the top NAICS code, 541330 (Engineering Services), is widely used in both the construction/environmental and information technology sectors. billion) of all federal contracts. In FY24, $74.8

Contract 52

Contract Professional Services Logistics Data 52

FedInsider

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Before moving to private industry, Kingsberry served as chief information officer for the federal Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. Currently, he serves as the Director of Federal Sales Engineering at Quest Software Public Sector Inc., Eric was previously a Cyber Solutions Architect & Engineer at Leidos.

Engineering 111

Engineering Leadership Management Networking 111

Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Arturo Bejar, former senior engineer and product leader at Facebook, testified to the Congressional Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on November 7, discussing teen’s experience with online harassment, insufficient reporting mechanisms, and recommendations on how to pressure Meta to reform.

Engineering 107

Engineering Media Internal Control Integrity 107

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Da Silva CCI xG Testbed Director Dr. Aloizio Pereira da Silva serves as a CCI xG Testbed director at Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) and Research Faculty at Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Virginia Tech. Da Silva has PhD in computer engineering, MSc in computer science and MBA in project management.

Supply Chain 115

Supply Chain Telecommunication Engineering Networking 115

Federal News Network

JANUARY 3, 2025

It’s pretty far down in there, with respect to reverse engineering and parts and technical diagrams and so forth. It’s just really expensive to reverse engineer a thing. Tom Temin And another one that’s interesting is Section 882. What’s in that section? Tom Temin And it goes on and on.

Procurement 52

Procurement Manufacturing Engineering Supply Chain 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 19, 2024

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL. Software engineers can then use ReDuX AppPilot to generate production-grade code for the new environment.

Engineering 117

Engineering Data Innovation Efficiency 117

Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Tommie (“Toni”) Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. Army Corps of Engineers. She discovered and exposed government procurement fraud.

Whistle-blowing 111

Whistle-blowing Engineering Corruption Contract 111

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The automations, which require basic knowledge of IRS and accounting protocols, run the gamut in terms of complexity and frequently call for coordination between multiple external systems. Federal agencies have increasingly looked to RPA “bots” to offload basic but cumbersome processes to free humans up to focus on higher-quality work.

IT 101

IT Electronics Quality Engineering 101

Government Contracts

MARCH 26, 2025

Government Accountability Office has sustained a security contractor's protest over being excluded from a more than $45 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers task order, saying the agency's solicitation was "latently ambiguous" about what information would be left out because of page limits.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Engineering Accountability Government 52

GovLoop

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Historically, security was built from an on-premises perspective, just trying to keep everybody out,” said Mitch Rosen, Global Director for Solutions Engineering with Keeper Security Inc., Agencies need an approach to cybersecurity that takes into account the vulnerabilities of end users. which provides password management solutions.

Management 98

Management Accountability Networking Engineering 98

FedInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

Carahsoft is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority in the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

Media 145

Media Leadership Evaluation Management 145

Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Government Accountability Office has said the Army Corps of Engineers rightly changed a solicitation to remove the requirement that solicitors attach a project labor agreement, denying a construction contractor's protest of the change.

Engineering 52

Engineering Accountability Government Government 52

GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On December 21, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed a protest by ELS, an unsuccessful bidder on a Department of Defense (DOD) task order opportunity, concluding that it did not have jurisdiction to consider it. GAO reasoned that because “the value of the task order [was] below $25,000,000.

Bidding 147

Bidding Thresholds Price Evaluation 147

Government Contracts

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Government Accountability Office has rejected a Georgia-based construction contractor's challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' denial of its building repair contract proposal, saying the agency reasonably deemed the contractor's project labor agreement to be insufficient.

Bidding 52

Bidding Engineering Accountability Contract 52

Government Contracts

JANUARY 6, 2025

Government Accountability Office ruled that a protest over an impossible joint venture registration requirement in a U.S. Department of State architectural and engineering services deal was untimely, because the disputed requirement was clear in the contract solicitation.

Engineering 52

Engineering Accountability Contract Government 52

Government Contracts

JANUARY 6, 2025

Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest over a $181.5 Army Corps of Engineers construction contract, saying a key staff member's departure meant the protester wasn't eligible for the deal even if its protest was otherwise valid. million U.S.

Engineering 52

Engineering Accountability Contract Government 52

Government Contracts

APRIL 18, 2024

Government Accountability Office shot down an Alabama engineering research firm's protest of a $692.9 million U.S. Army contract for test support services, rejecting the firm's contention that the Army awarded the deal to a competitor to avoid litigation.

Engineering 52

Engineering Accountability Contract Government 52

Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest over a 36.7 ($38 million) million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction contract and criticized the protester for filing claims based on improperly redacted Corps information, saying the redaction mistake didn't waive related protections.

Engineering 52

Engineering Accountability Contract Government 52

FedInsider

JANUARY 21, 2024

Da Silva CCI xG Testbed Director Dr. Aloizio Pereira da Silva serves as a CCI xG Testbed director at Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) and Research Faculty at Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Virginia Tech. Da Silva has PhD in computer engineering, MSc in computer science and MBA in project management.

Telecommunication 103

Telecommunication Supply Chain Networking Engineering 103

FedInsider

MARCH 6, 2024

Craig Knight Solutions Engineer Dr. Knight taught at the university level for more than 25 years, with most of those years spent teaching in the Management Information Systems (MIS) area. Today, he serves as a Solutions Engineer for Okta in the southeastern U.S. for state government, local government, and educational (SLED) accounts.

Engineering 105

Engineering Leadership Consulting Education 105

AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy

Accountability 80

Accountability Finance Networking Budget 80

FedInsider

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Prior to joining the Treasury in 2016, Sarah Nur held numerous leadership positions in systems engineering, IT network deployment (worldwide), and operational cybersecurity supporting public and private organizations. Ronzio started his career as an Information Technology Architect/Engineer. Marsh is a retired U.S.

Engineering 98

Engineering Leadership Education Management 98

Select GCR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) GWACs enable federal agencies to acquire cost-effective, innovative IT solutions, such as systems design, software engineering, and enterprise architecture. Though navigating compliance regulations can be challenging, it is crucial for maintaining eligibility for future contracts.

Government 52

Government Government Government Contracts Procurement 52

FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Prior to his current position, he was the Senior Director of Public Sector Engineering at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There he led a team of 60 engineering, operations, and consulting professionals in designing and operating Akamai’s public sector portfolio.

Engineering 98

Engineering Strategic Planning Leadership Consulting 98

FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mississippi. He graduated with distinction in June 2013, earning a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and an academic certificate in cyber warfare. Prior to working at Dell Technologies, Greg served 20 years on active duty in the U.S.

Networking 98

Networking Participation Leadership Engineering 98

AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

Data 126

Data Education Collaboration Price 126