Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

These data are consistent with the Board’s policy statement of providing “to the fullest extent practicable” the “informal, expeditious, and inexpensive resolution of disputes.” Of the remaining 11 cases, four were not successful, and 7 remained pending as of the close of FY 2023.

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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. The post IRS seeks information as it plans to scale up its robotic processing automation program appeared first on FedScoop.

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GovCon & Trade

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This comes after an SBA rule and Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision created confusion as to whether the joint venture (JV) itself needed to hold an EED or whether the individual entities must. a)(1) states: “when determin[ing] whether an entity is eligible for access to classified information.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ) posted a notice Wednesday that it began sending out new notices to successful and unsuccessful offerors the week of Jan. In two separate decisions, GAO concluded the agency improperly eliminated proposals from the first phase of the competition.

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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. Werfel left the door open in his letter for Direct File to be a one-and-done program.

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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.” Addressing the causes could improve the federal government’s cybersecurity posture,” the report said.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business extension requests are currently being routed for approval,” Ricky Clark, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ), said in an emailed statement to FedScoop. Protests have been filed at the U.S.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 8, 2024

The ATF memo fails to explicitly inform ATF employees of their Constitutional and statutory right to make protected disclosures of wrongdoing and misconduct to Congress, inspectors general (IG), and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC),” wrote Grassley. Grassley claims that this omission violates the Whistleblower Protection Act.

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FedScoop

MARCH 13, 2024

Additionally, Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace, R-S.C., doesn’t lose its edge to China on AI, lawmakers “must hold accountable unethical creators, criminal actors and especially those who are creating child pornography and child sexual abuse material.

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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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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

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Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 125

FedScoop

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence do not have adequate data for assessing government security clearances and other vetting processes, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Monday. ODNI did not provide formal comments on the recommendations, according to GAO.

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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. With that in mind, the watchdog pointed to the usefulness of its AI accountability framework.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As of this July, all 24 Chief Financial Officers Act agencies completed an OMB requirement in its Cloud Smart strategy to ensure that CIOs oversee modernization efforts, according to the Government Accountability Office. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

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FedScoop

MARCH 27, 2024

The interim policy could also lead to public disclosures of certain information about use of the technology at the department. Without compromising law-enforcement sensitive or national security information, each of these annual reports will be consolidated into a publicly released summary on the Department’s FRT use,” the testimony said.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 3, 2024

Former vice chief of naval operations accused of bribery - DoJ) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not have to look far to find its new CIO, as it tapped Scott Flanders, the acting chief information officer since January, to take on the permanent job. Burke made his initial court appearance on Friday in Miami. His first day is today.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The impact level is based on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-60r1 , which outlines how to map information and information systems to various security categories. AWS also provides documentation within AWS Artifact , a central resource for compliance-related information available in the AWS Management Console.

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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. The post Security flaws in IRS systems pose risk to financial statements, GAO says appeared first on FedScoop.

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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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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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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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FedScoop

APRIL 12, 2024

The Government Accountability Office has modernization on its mind for fiscal 2025, with a report on its budget request released this week aimed in part at fueling the congressional watchdog’s embrace of cloud technology. In requesting from Congress $916 million in appropriated funds — up 6.5% from its FY2024 ask — and another $59.8

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FedScoop

MAY 2, 2024

That notice said that either an “unauthorized” actor or actors obtained access to company email accounts between March 2 and July 13 of that year — though Chemonics couldn’t identify the specific emails that were impacted, the company said in the disclosure. The extent to which different types of information were released is unclear.

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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. “The task of supporting whistleblowers doesn’t start and stop with this very day, every year, that we honor whistleblowers.

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FedScoop

JULY 17, 2024

In an update posted this week, NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) said that CIO-SP3 and its small business counterpart would be extended through April 2025 to ensure there won’t be a break in service. Almost immediately, bid protests at the Government Accountability Office and the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Protecting the privacy and security of this information when using generative AI can be a significant challenge. The major components are an AWS account, AWS IAM Identity Center, and Amazon Bedrock. Strict data governance protocols are typically required. The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

Participants can earn up to 3 CPE credits in Information Technology.* Additional Information: Prerequisites & Advance Preparation : None required. 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.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In an opinion piece published

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FedScoop

MARCH 13, 2024

The theft was described as a “Houston SpaceX Unauthorized Access incident where 3 crew training ipads and 2 crew training IPads were stolen,” according to a personally identifiable information incident ticket document that FedScoop obtained via a public records request. A message to SpaceX’s media email address did not receive a response.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

deaths and billions of dollars in damage annually, and machine learning AI tools could automate processes and glean new insights into weather patterns to improve warning time and preparedness during those events, the Government Accountability Office found. Natural disasters result in hundreds of U.S.

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GovCon & Trade

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I recently authored an article for Law360’s Expert Analysis column outlining a joint notice issued by the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), which offers guidance to government contractors regarding entity eligibility determination (EED) requirements for joint ventures.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 14, 2024

According to the Government Accountability Office, the Social Security Administration has spent roughly $62 million on the service but has taken in just $25 million in user fees, putting it off pace to meet the law’s requirement to fully recover the service’s total cost by the end of fiscal year 2027.

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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.

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FedScoop

JUNE 11, 2024

In a May memorandum , GSA announced that beginning June 8, the agency would start collecting information for new contracts of all sizes — including “micropurchases” — from software offerers and contractors. That information would attest to government-specified secure software development practices.

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FedScoop

MARCH 21, 2024

But at the same time, we have to be absolutely assured that that information is a very high quality.” The Government Accountability Office, for example, has listed multiple AI use cases , including late-stage prototypes to summarize GAO’s legislative mandates and organize comments from Regulations.gov. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash.,

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

Under the new organization, the departmentwide chief technology, data and AI officer roles will move from the Assistant Secretary for Administration — which houses the Office of the Chief Information Officer — to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

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