Federal News Network
JUNE 3, 2024
62-year-old Robert Burke, a retired four-star admiral, is facing up to 30 years in prison for an alleged scheme to steer a government contract to a company in exchange for future employment. Burke, who served as the vice chief of naval operations from 2019 to 2020, has been arrested and charged with four felony counts, including bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Concurrent Technologies Corp. two contracts to help the service branch improve energy resilience to support warfighters and their mission requirements. CTC said Friday both contracts were awarded by Marine Corps Installations Command.
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AWS Public Sector
JUNE 3, 2024
Introduction Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that provides various capabilities, including Jupyter Notebook instances. While RStudio, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for R, is available as a managed service in Amazon Web Services (AWS) commercial Regions , it’s currently not offered in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
Brian Vanderhoof, formerly vice president of growth and strategy at LCG, has assumed the role of VP of public sector sales at NTT Data Services, the executive announced on LinkedIn Friday. In his new position, he will be responsible for growing the company’s federal health and civilian business.
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GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
In its 2022 Zero Trust Strategy, the Department of Defense set a goal to achieve full zero trust implementation by 2027, a target David McKeown, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and senior information security officer for the DOD, described in February as “super aggressive.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index took a downward turn last week, dropping by 1.13% and closing with an average of $4,998.95. This decline reversed a winning streak that had lasted for six weeks. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that tracks stock market data from 30 top government contracting enterprises in real time.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a potential four-year, $49.6 million task order from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide 48 full-time equivalents for staffing support and technical operations services across mission-critical areas.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
Joanna Tepper, formerly vice president of business development and capture at TechFlow, has been appointed VP of capture excellence at Tsymmetry, an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of information technology services to the federal government.
USFCR
JUNE 3, 2024
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month June marks the start of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD is a debilitating illness that causes people to repeatedly relive a traumatic event, significantly reducing their quality of life. 1,2 Approximately 70% of adults experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, and 20% of these individuals will develop PTSD. 3 In total, roughly 13 million people in the United States have PTSD in a given year. 3 Raising awa
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.
FedTech Magazine
JUNE 3, 2024
Mixed reality headsets and similar systems are tested for resiliency against attacks while in development, but once MR and related technologies are deployed, there’s less effort to test for new threats from malicious actors. Direct attacks on users could flood headsets with information designed to cause motion sickness or disorientation. Or, attacks might clutter displays with virtual objects that cause users to misinterpret critical information and compromise military operations.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
General Electric (NYSE: GE) has received a potential 10-year, $438.6 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide workload augmentation and offload support for F-110 engine module supplies to help meet the U.S. Air Force’s requirements.
FedScoop
JUNE 3, 2024
Coordination among two financial regulators to take on the risks posed by blockchain technology has lacked consistency, a congressional watchdog said Monday. In a pair of priority open recommendations, the Government Accountability Office said the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission have succeeded in establishing coordination mechanisms with other federal regulators and financial working groups to identify the risks posed by blockchain-related products and services.
Whistleblower Network News
JUNE 3, 2024
Hampton Dellinger, nominated and confirmed by the Senate to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), announced on May 20 that OSC will be updating the agency’s enforcement approach to the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, limits the political activity of government workers. OSC is responsible for bringing Hatch Act violations to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which hears cases and imposes sanctions if it determines the rules were broken.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected eight contractors out of the 29 vendors that submitted their bids online to offer architecture and engineering general design support.
Whistleblower Network News
JUNE 3, 2024
This is Part 1 of a WNN exclusive series “Protecting Whistleblowers is Key to Protecting Democracy in India” reporting on efforts within India to incorporate different categories of whistleblowers within a whistleblower protection law that is on the horizon. The word “whistleblower” tends to immediately elicit a certain image. Most picture a government or company insider who bravely sacrificed their safety to disclose wrongdoing.
USFCR
JUNE 3, 2024
Since formation, the United States has utilized grants to distribute resources amongst its various states and peoples. From farmers to industrialists, the federal government has pursued a policy of no-strings-attached funding for a variety of projects that serve the national interest. Because of this, grants have taken and will continue to take, many different and unique forms over the years to effectively influence the progression of national goals through for-profit and nonprofit entities.
Open Contracting Partnership
JUNE 3, 2024
Joyeuse Uwingeneye joins us from a glass high-rise building in downtown Kigali. It’s a clear day and the city is visible far into the distance through her window on the 10th floor. It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes.
AWS Public Sector
JUNE 3, 2024
Mechai Bamboo School in rural Thailand has an unconventional approach to help alleviate poverty and give back to the community. Its students pay no fees, instead helping with tree planting and assisting the elderly in nearby villages in return for enrollment. The innovative school serves as a lifelong learning hub in one of the nation’s poorest areas, empowering students and villagers to become active stewards of their society and fostering social and economic progress.
Kluwer Arbitration
JUNE 3, 2024
In recent years, the electronic signature of awards has become widely accepted under various laws and institutional rules, particularly as a result of the increased reliance on the virtual world caused by the pandemic. As discussed in a previous blog post , while some jurisdictions still require awards to be signed by wet ink signatures, many seem to accept electronic signatures.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
Maryland-based cybersecurity company Analygence has received a potential five-year, $125 million contract from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help NIST process an increasing backlog of cyber vulnerabilities for inclusion in the national database, Nextgov/FCW reported Friday.
Government Contracts
JUNE 3, 2024
A Florida federal judge decided against sanctioning two law firms that signed documents in place of their clients, but chastised their lawyers' "obviously improper" act, which could have cut their clients out of their share of the $6 billion settlement in the 3M combat earplugs multidistrict litigation.
USFCR
JUNE 3, 2024
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Grant opportunities allow organizations to elevate their current programs so they can channel connections within their communities to provide assistance to their intended populations. However, searching through the plethora of federal, national and foundational databases to identify Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), Request for Proposals (RFPs) or Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) can get tiring if you
Government Contracts
JUNE 3, 2024
An Ohio information technology company urged the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to have the U.S. Army reinstate its eligibility for a pending $10 billion U.S. Army procurement, saying it shouldn't have been booted for an empty pricing spreadsheet cell.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration has released a draft solicitation for a potential 15-year, $5 billion small business set-aside multiple award task order contract to provide architect-engineering services for the development of complete construction documents.
Government Contracts
JUNE 3, 2024
Defense companies and industry groups have urged the State Department to expand export licensing exemptions included in a proposed rule intended to help implement the AUKUS agreement or risk undermining the intent of the trilateral defense cooperation deal.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
Kongsberg Gruppen‘s defense and aerospace business has secured a $141 million award from the U.S. Air Force for the Joint Strike Missile Lot 1 production. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is obligating $69.
Government Contracts
JUNE 3, 2024
Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy and the state attorney general are asking the Sixth Circuit to keep the department's suit against Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority over so-called forever chemicals in state court, saying the Airport Authority is not entitled to removal as a "federal officer.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index suffered two sharp drops to start the shortened week, resulting in its first weekly loss in seven weeks. Still, because of Friday’s 1.13% gain, GCI advanced 2.31% month-on-month. On a year-to-date basis, the index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, is up 7.08%.
Government Contracts
JUNE 3, 2024
Lawmakers told the U.S. Department of Defense that they want information on a reported plan to require an expensive Microsoft software upgrade for department components, expressing concern the Pentagon will risk security by increasing dependence on the technology company.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
The U.S. Space Force has selected Wallaroo.AI for inclusion in Cohort 3 of the Space Domain Awareness TAP Lab Apollo Accelerator program. The company said Thursday it will leverage its artificial intelligence architecture to build AI and machine learning models and other tech platforms designed to improve SDA-related use cases.
Government Contracts
JUNE 3, 2024
A former Georgia prison inmate has accused the state of complicity in his stabbing at the hands of another inmate who was not only allowed to work as an orderly in a mental health unit, but was given the green light to carry out the attack by a state corrections officer.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
SkyGrid, a joint venture between Boeing and SparkCognition, is collaborating with NASA Langley Research Center to incorporate essential capabilities, functions and services to support the integration of autonomous aircraft within the air transportation system.
AWS Public Sector
JUNE 3, 2024
It should be simple to build digital platforms that offer people reliable, clear ways to access government services such as healthcare, business registration, and welfare payments. Cloud technology makes it possible for every service to be simple, reliable, scalable, adaptable, and secure. Public sector agencies need to be able to access the cloud, and they do so through public procurement processes.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems division will build and deploy 12 Gray Eagle 25M unmanned aircraft systems for the Army National Guard. The ARNG previously requested the systems to help enhance the multi-domain operations capability of its divisions, General Atomics said Friday.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 3, 2024
President Joe Biden has appointed three new members to an independent board that advises the White House on the effectiveness of the nation’s intelligence community and its plans for the future.
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