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Sierra7 Lands VA Contract for Privacy Impact Assessment Tracking Services

ExecutiveBiz

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Sierra7 a contract to help the Office of Information Technology Privacy Services conduct privacy impact assessments for data within the VA's electronic information systems.

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ICE pursuing privacy approvals related to controversial phone location data

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But, even though ICE says it has received no new requests for the use of commercial telemetry services since December 2022, the agency has filed a privacy impact assessment with the Department of Homeland Security’s privacy office for review. The agency also said it discontinued a contract for the technology following FY2023.

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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Many of you will know that weve always been interested in opening up and improving the procurement and contracts that underpin mega-sporting events, which have – all too-often been – vectors for cronyism, corruption or massive mis-spending. Nine implementing bodies are involved, with Simico S.p.A. of allocated funds.

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ICE says it’s stopped using commercial telemetry data

FedScoop

ICE specifically did not have an approved CTD privacy impact assessment, a type of disclosure meant to provide an overview into how personal information could be used by a digital technology deployed by the government, violating internal DHS privacy policies and the E-Government Act.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The city government of Klaipeda runs the Dancer bus service through a comprehensive, 10-year lease agreement that is the first purchase of its kind in the country, a result of Lithuania’s shift to using green criteria for public contracts. Skip ahead to read the top tips on implementing green procurement from Lithuania.

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Space and nuclear experts to come together next month

Federal News Network

We were doing a regulatory training event talking about export controls, government contracting, the couple of other topics out in Albuquerque earlier this year. As we’re going to talk about with the Space Nuclear Policy Summit. So ACSP exists to drive down those regulatory barriers for the space industry.

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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

How to Crack a Nut

Or, in other words, to use the acquisition of digital technologies by the public sector as a gateway to the ‘regulation by contract’ of their use and governance. A closer look at some selected putative goals of digital regulation by contract sheds light on the issue.