Redstone Government Consulting

JULY 10, 2024

In the June 27, 2024 Federal Register , the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) put out a notification that it was looking for input on its efforts to conform Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for Compensated Personal Absence (CAS 408) and Depreciation of Tangible Capital Assets (CAS 409).

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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.

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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. The bill’s requirements come directly from recommendations in a September 2023 Government Accountability Office study that Connolly requested. “I Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

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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. “IHS

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

They are encouraging dialogue about who bought what from whom to improve visibility and accountability over the spending and the improved outcomes seen in the examples provided. From healthcare management and social safety net technology to managing vaccine sign-ups during the pandemic , governments simply need to buy IT better.

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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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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction Application owners are committed to developing new applications and enhancing existing ones rapidly as a top business priority. To tackle this challenge, it is imperative that you design your systems with a comprehensive understanding of how your workloads will perform in real-world scenarios.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The US-led Atlanta Declaration focused squarely on accountability and the role of non-state actors in the fight against corruption. Although public procurement is government’s number one corruption risk, this is the first time in 20 years since the original Convention was drafted that there has been a dedicated resolution on the topic.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But the push toward standardization must also take into account that people do their best work when they have the best tools. We’ll explore ways that government agencies are using technology to transform how they deliver services impacting the health, safety, and security of their people.

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FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security is by most accounts the largest federal civilian agency, the largest federal law enforcement agency, and the federal agency with [the] most daily interactions with the public,” said Boyce in a LinkedIn post Thursday. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and as a product and strategy lead 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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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. The Board addressed 78 cases through the ADR process, resolving 67.

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FedScoop

MAY 28, 2024

In February 2024, the bureau said it was in the last phase of evaluation but an award wouldn’t be made until bid protest challenges to the contract filed with the Government Accountability Office were resolved. The new agreement will serve as the primary vehicle for the agency’s IT services for the next eight years.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The removal of the signature requirement for those 13 forms will account for 1 million submissions in volume annually, the SSA said, adding that customers could upload several of those forms online. These efforts ensure we maintain strong anti-fraud protections while removing onerous requirements that are not serving their intended purposes.”

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 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

MAY 16, 2024

Sometimes federal procurements don’t go according to the rules. Sometimes its worse, when bribes and kickbacks come into play. That’s what the Justice Department’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force tries to discover and prosecute. Now the strike force is expanding, with four new members. Dan Glad Sure. Is it mostly whistleblowers?

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to the Government Accountability Office , it is still struggling to meet that mission because of longstanding challenges in at least three major areas. The Coast Guard is one of the smallest military services — but it has a big mission. The new vessels are not coming online as quickly as they hoped that they would.

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Federal News Network

JULY 18, 2024

Lockheed Martin recently won a settlement worth more than $130 million in a protest with the Air Force. The company completed a contract to update the big C5 transport places with new engines. But it also had to do thousands of repairs outside the scope of the contract, and that’s where the disagreements started. Is that the gist of it?

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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. The protestor was an unpopulated mentor-protégé JV where both members possessed the required FCL.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

“We want to hold government accountable. These SOPs will not only serve as guidance for the auditors on how to carry out their work effectively but also for citizens on how to hold government accountable,” said Wana Alamsyah from ICW. Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023.

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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. This is an enormous amount of spending, more than most U.S.

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Federal News Network

JULY 11, 2024

Amee Wentz Right, but first, let’s just talk about and define, like, what a closed contract is. A contract is actually closed when the contract is physically completed, which means that the contract has reached its end date, and the contractor has satisfactorily provided the goods or services. Eric White Gotcha, okay.

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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: No, it’s not.

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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. The bill to update the Technology Modernization Fund passed out of a Senate committee this week, teeing it up for a full vote soon.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 3, 2024

Burke made his initial court appearance on Friday in Miami. 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. His first day is today.

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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. It takes a lot of time.” said in a statement.

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FedScoop

JUNE 7, 2024

With that in mind, the watchdog pointed to the usefulness of its AI accountability framework. The IRS first piloted AI techniques for sampling tax returns in NRP audits during the 2019 filing season. The IRS first piloted AI techniques for sampling tax returns in NRP audits during the 2019 filing season.

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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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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A close second best part, though, is when some form of this question inevitably arises, “So AWS is reselling software now?” I love this question because the answer cuts to the heart of how IT marketplaces offer a new way of approaching software procurement. The answer is: no, AWS is not a software reseller.

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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. This is particularly true for instances of ransomware. They are being hit much more often than you read about in the news, and some have had to pay out,” Brecken said.

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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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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. What is StateRAMP? StateRAMP assumes that state and local government data will likely be at the Moderate impact level.

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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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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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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

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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