ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
Concetta Yates, an executive with 25 years of information technology sector experience, was named head of data analytics and artificial intelligence at Red River, a provider of technology transformation services for government and enterprise customers.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
Advancements in digital technologies have reached every corner of the federal government, and healthcare agencies are exploring the unique benefits they offer for patient care and cutting-edge research projects.
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ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
Five companies will continue providing commercial space situational awareness data and services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce through the end of June through new orders awarded by OSC to support the Consolidated Pathfinder project.
FedScoop
MAY 17, 2024
Witnesses representing the National Science Foundation and its governing board at a Thursday House hearing underscored, in no uncertain terms, the negative impacts that decreased funding levels for science will have on the agency’s research priorities. “The more we cut, the more the ideas that are being proposed to NSF in quantum, in AI will not be funded.
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ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
Noblis CEO Mile Corrigan collected her 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on the sidelines of a 4×24 Leadership Group dinner event last week. The Wash100 Award is the most coveted recognition in the government contracting industry, honoring leaders whose accomplishments signify they will be the drivers of the sector in the near future.
Whistleblower Network News
MAY 17, 2024
For the first time, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded a whistleblower after the whistleblower appealed a denial before the U.S. Court of Appeals. On April 3, the SEC issued an order granting a whistleblower award of more than $2,000,000 to one whistleblower and an award of over $400,000 to another. Both whistleblowers voluntarily provided original information which contributed to a successful enforcement action.
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Whistleblower Network News
MAY 17, 2024
On May 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Elara Caring and its wholly owned subsidiaries agreed to pay $4.2 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations. These alleged violations involved the conscious submission of false claims and the retention of overpayments for hospice patients who were not eligible for Medicare benefits in Texas.
AWS Public Sector
MAY 17, 2024
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework is designed to help build resilient, secure, and efficient solutions. It is structured around six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Understanding this framework can greatly benefit AWS customers looking to enhance and refine their cloud environments.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 17, 2024
Federal agencies must have at least 80 percent of their IP-enabled internet assets on IPv6 by Sept. 30, 2025. Nearly half of all government domains are now IPv6-enabled, according to a Commerce Department report. That positions them to take advantage of the more stable, more secure protocol, which also offers vastly more addresses than IPv4. Domains that have not yet started an update must design new network architectures to support IPv6, as well as update devices and endpoints to handle the new
AWS Public Sector
MAY 17, 2024
The public sector’s use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is steadily growing, as these organizations learn how to implement and derive value from IoT solutions. Public sector agencies and organizations deploy IoT devices in a variety of areas, such as transportation and infrastructure, crime prevention, education, and utilities and environment. For example, IoT devices with control systems help deliver power and water to citizens or detects gas leaks in pipes.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
Eric Trexler, senior vice president of U.S. public sector at Palo Alto Networks, said the company will support Booz Allen Hamilton’s work on the Department of Defense’s Thunderdome zero trust architecture project by providing its cloud-delivered secure access service edge platform called Prisma Access.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
NASA is seeking industry input for the follow-on acquisition to the Human Space Flight Technical Integration Contract, which covers program support services for the space agency’s Johnson Space Center. According to a SAM.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 17, 2024
As agencies prepare to increase adoption of generative artificial intelligence, they will need to simplify how they source, deploy and manage AI infrastructure. While evaluating generative AI’s many possibilities, agencies will likely consider a mix of cloud, edge and on-premises infrastructure. Cloud-based services for AI include Dell’s APEX for generative AI, which improves agencies’ ability to scale computing power based on real-time data use, says Paul Perez, technology senior fellow for Del
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
General Atomics ’ aeronautical systems business and the U.S. Marine Corps have completed the MQ-9A Block 5 unmanned aircraft system training for the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One. The company said Thursday the seven-week Weapons and Tactics Instructor program, held at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, utilized the SkyTower I pod, which extends airborne communication capabilities for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force.
GovSpend
MAY 17, 2024
Artificial intelligence in schools, particularly generative AI, was initially criticized as a method for cheating or cutting corners. But as use cases for AI grow, it may be the extra security everyone seeks. GovSpend’s Meeting Intelligence module shows that artificial intelligence is increasingly on the minds of school boards across the country, with mentions in district meetings steadily rising over the last two years.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
Northrop Grumman has entered into an agreement with NVIDIA to access and use the latter's portfolio of artificial intelligence and generative AI platforms to advance the development of advanced systems. The defense contractor said Thursday it will apply NVIDIA's AI technologies and other software platforms, including its 3D graphics collaboration platform Omniverse, across its portfolio of capabilities.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
Highlight Technologies is set to collaborate with Katmai Professional Services through a joint venture created under the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege Program. Highlight said Wednesday Katmai-Highlight Government Services JV will leverage the two companies’ expertise, customer relationships, core capabilities and delivery models to offer optimized digital, professional and public health services.
Kluwer Arbitration
MAY 17, 2024
Mid-hearing, the Arbitral Tribunal in Sea Search-Armada, LLC v. The Republic of Colombia (PCA Case 2023-37) received an application for intervention from the Kingdom of Spain. The letter asserted Spain’s claim to certain rights over the San José Galeon, a “Spanish Navy warship sunk in naval combat against an English squadron in 1708” near the coast of the Colombian port city of Cartagena ( Decision on the Application by Spain for Leave to Intervene , ¶ 6).
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
The State Department has approved NATO’s request to buy Alliance Ground Surveillance system equipment and related support services from the U.S. government under a foreign military sales agreement worth approximately $250.2 million.
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
A government watchdog has called out production and software delays within the U.S. Department of Defense's F-35 program, saying contractors Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney are delivering aircraft and engines late despite the fighter jet moving into full production status.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced plans to award Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a recompete contract for corrective and preventive maintenance support services for CBP’s non-intrusive inspection systems and radiation detection equipment deployed at ports and borders.
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
Allergan drew a Maryland federal court's attention to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' abandonment of a regulation clarifying drug pricing, arguing the move undermined a whistleblower's claims that it overcharged Medicaid by over $680 million.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
Abt Global, which rebranded from Abt Associates, has acquired information technology transformation company TSPi in an effort to advance citizen-centric, data-driven products and services for its customers.
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
The winner of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs mail-order pharmacy deal urged the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to toss a competitor's protest of the award, saying the protester's challenge was based on an incorrect reading of applicable regulations.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
Venice Goodwine, chief information officer at the Department of the Air Force, is looking to expand the use of cloud services across the Air Force to include classified networks and applications in the tactical edge to address warfighters’ data needs, Federal News Network reported Thursday.
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
Three whistleblowers who tipped off the federal government to a medical device company's multimillion-dollar kickback scheme said Friday the Justice Department is refusing to pay them a cut of the $3 million in False Claims Act settlements paid by surgeons who admitted participating in the sham consulting ploy.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
U.S. Transportation Command has awarded 29 companies spots on a five-year, $710 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide commercial seaport operations and transportation services in locations outside the continental U.S.
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld the documents falsification conviction of a former high-ranking staffer within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of the Inspector General, rejecting his arguments that prosecutors had diverged at trial from the charges laid out in an indictment.
GovCon Wire
MAY 17, 2024
Mark Santamaria, formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer at CAES, has assumed the CFO role at Austal‘s shipbuilding arm in the U.S. He has three decades of experience in finance and executive leadership, including more than 20 years at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), where he was divisional CFO, Austal USA said Thursday.
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
Google told a Virginia federal court the government has no right to a jury trial in a case accusing the company of monopolizing key digital advertising technology, especially after Google issued a check for the money enforcers could be awarded if they won.
The Softly Spark
MAY 17, 2024
If you have aspirational green goals and want to communicate them to your customers, you might want to take a second look at your green promises because how you handle environmental claims could obstruct your sustainability aspirations. The State of New York is taking action against the meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Company for its “Net Zero by 2040” claim.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
Auterion , the builder of software-defined computing platforms for drones and autonomous systems, has completed the transfer of its corporate headquarters from Moorpark in South California to Arlington, Virginia, a move that brings the company closer to private and public sector clients, particularly federal agencies and defense-related customers. In a press release Wednesday, Lorenz Meier , CEO of Auterion, said, "Being physically closer to our customers allows us to provide more responsive
Government Contracts
MAY 17, 2024
Cape Cod Hospital will pay $24.3 million to settle claims it flouted Medicare billing rules for hundreds of heart-valve replacement surgeries in what's understood to be the largest recovery under the False Claims Act from a Massachusetts hospital.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
A digital transformation team within Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has established an advanced visualization engineering facility in Palmdale, California, to provide a virtual environment for advancing engineering development. The Virtual Prototyping team's new Virtual Engineering Environment features computer-aided software and tools, including a large format PowerWall display system, to enable engineers to design, manufacture and test systems and processes virtually, Lockheed said Thursday.
Great Government Through Technology
MAY 17, 2024
This is a guest post by Jake Marcellus, Executive Director, Office of Enterprise Technology Solutions. Next-Gen Network: Riding the wave into the future Greetings, tech enthusiasts and future-forward thinkers! Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of Next Generation Network Infrastructure (NGNI)? This isn’t just another IT telecommunications program; it’s the transformational blueprint for tomorrow’s federal IT network and telecommunications landscape.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 17, 2024
The Department of State has approved a request by the government of Ukraine to acquire equipment and services that would help sustain vehicles and weapon systems provided by the U.S. Army.
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