FedScoop

JUNE 27, 2024

From human intelligence collection to information gathered in the open, the CIA is leveraging generative artificial intelligence for a wide swath of its intelligence-gathering mission set today, and plans to continue to expand upon that into the future, according to the agency’s AI lead. The CIA has been using AI for things like content triage and “things in the human language technology space — translation, transcription — all the types of processing that need to happen in order to

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Art of Procurement

JUNE 27, 2024

Red Lobster is the largest seafood chain in the United States. It buys 20 percent of North American lobster tails. The post Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

Cloud service providers must ensure they can integrate new federal security and privacy controls into their processes if they want to continue doing business with agencies. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program revised its security controls baseline to align with Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and verify that CSPs are protecting operations, assets, other organizations and the nation from cyberattacks, human err

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Matthew McFadden, vice president of cyber at General Dynamics Information Technology, said government agencies and organizations should prioritize four core cybersecurity practices to defend their environments: implementing two-factor and multi-factor authentication, advancing vulnerability and patch management, reducing the attack surface and pursuing active defensive cyber operations.

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Government Contracts

JUNE 27, 2024

Federal circuit courts that have addressed Rule 41(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are split as to whether attorney fees are included as part of the costs of a previously dismissed action, so practitioners aiming to recover or avoid fees should tailor arguments to the appropriate court, says Joseph Myles at Finnegan.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Intel Federal‘s Steve Orrin believes advances in artificial intelligence can provide the military with benefits beyond object identification, offering, instead, enhanced situational awareness by making it possible to process data from various sources and draw connections that human analysts might otherwise miss.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Jason Crager, a nearly three-decade Lockheed Martin veteran, was appointed vice president of quality and mission success at the defense contractor’s missiles and fire control business.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 27, 2024

U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, will be speaking at the National Whistleblower Day celebration held on Capitol Hill on July 30. Dellinger was confirmed as Special Counsel in February. The OSC is an independent agency that protects federal employees from prohibited personnel practices, including whistleblower retaliation.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Discussions are in progress for a new investment into Anduril Industries that could result in the defense sector startup being valued at $14 billion in total, including previous funding, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Unnamed sources have revealed that Anduril seeks to raise $1.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 27, 2024

The Department of the Navy (DoN) modified its blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Organizations streamlined access to AWS Partners solutions available in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace provides Navy and Marine Corps Organization access to commercial software and services from more than 4,000 trusted providers – accelerating procurement and modernization, improving controls and visibility, and optimizing IT spend.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

CGI Federal has been chosen to help the FBI modernize its IT system. Under the second iteration of the FBI’s potential $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement, CGI will bid on task orders provided by the agency, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company announced Thursday.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 27, 2024

There are multiple overlaps in SBA’s socioeconomic rules for the 8(a) Program, Women-Owned Small Business Program (WOSB), and the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Program. One in particular has often caused some confusion for our clients: the full-time devotion requirement. This rule generally requires that the service-disabled veteran owner (or equivalent key owner in the other programs) work full time for the company with the SDVOSB status.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Austal Limited confirmed the retirement of its founder and inaugural chairman, John Rothwell. The Australian shipbuilder and defense prime contractor also announced Wednesday that former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer would be the new company chairman beginning July 1. He will also sit on the board of the company’s U.S. subsidiary.

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USFCR

JUNE 27, 2024

Toby Fritz joined US Federal Contractor Registration (USFCR) as a Registration & Contracting Specialist in February 2024. Growing up in Clearwater and now residing in Tampa, Toby brings a local perspective to his role. His hobbies include golfing, going to the beach, and watching baseball, complementing his professional life with leisure and relaxation.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Ironwood Cyber will showcase the capabilities of Enlight to the Transportation Security Administration for the product’s potential deployment by the agency. An artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity product, Enlight works to provide autonomous detection and validation of vulnerabilities and security risks within a system, Ironwood Cyber said Tuesday.

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USFCR

JUNE 27, 2024

[…] Disasters come in all shapes and sizes—fires, hurricanes, economic downturns, droughts, virus outbreaks, terrorism. We can’t predict how long the impact will be felt but we can do much to be ready. […] Disasters stretch the limits of community systems. Communities that recover best are […] those that have invested in social fabric, inter-connectedness, physical and emotional infrastructure, and those that have woven bonds between sectors and between citizens.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Interos has secured a five-year contract from the General Services Administration to enable the Department of Defense and civilian agencies to access its supply chain risk management platform. Carahsoft Technology said Wednesday it facilitates public sector access to Interos’ artificial intelligence-based technology through its own GSA Schedule and other contracts.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 27, 2024

In a previous Public Sector Blog post , we introduced Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 overlays to help agencies securely apply TIC 3.0 requirements to AWS deployments. In this post, we show you how you can push or pull your security telemetry data to the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) Cloud Log Aggregation Warehouse (CLAW) using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or third-party solutions.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Business consulting company Guidehouse has announced that it will serve as master servicer and custodian under the first-ever multiparty securitization of the unguaranteed portion of Small Business Administration 7(a) loans.

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FedScoop

JUNE 27, 2024

A House Homeland Security hearing on filling the cyber workforce gap included discussions on examining top secret clearances, recruitment efforts across educational institutions and more.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Mark Peters, executive vice president for national laboratory management and operations at Battelle, was appointed president and CEO of MITRE, effective Sept. 3. He will succeed Jason Providakes, who is retiring after over 35 years of service at MITRE, the organization said Thursday.

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FedScoop

JUNE 27, 2024

The U.S. Copyright Office is looking to overhaul its IT infrastructure, the top agency official said during a Wednesday House hearing. Appearing before the House Administration Committee, Shira Perlmutter, the register of Copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, said the agency is modernizing its approach to workflow and services, with a particular focus now on mapping out next steps and timing on registration for its new Enterprise Copyright System.

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Key Solutions

JUNE 27, 2024

It is far too common, once the dust settles after submitting a proposal, for a Proposal Team, including subject matter experts (SMEs), account managers, and senior management, to move on to the next project without taking a moment to reflect.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

In the past couple of years, especially since the launch of large language models like ChatGPT, the field of artificial intelligence has been propelled by unprecedented growth and rapid innovation. Exciting applications across the defense landscape — things like AI-powered fighter jets — have unsurprisingly taken center stage in the AI conversation.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

On June 6, 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a final rule seeking to minimize the use of single-use plastic (SUP) packaging materials in goods procured through the Federal Supply Schedules (FSS). Rather than instituting an outright ban on SUP packaging, GSA opted to incentivize FSS contractors to offer SUP-free products through providing a special icon in GSA Advantage for FSS contractors self-certifying that their products are SUP-free.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

The Army Futures Command is planning ahead to ensure war-winning procedures, and with the recent standup of an All-Domain Cross-Functional team, AFC is looking to advance war-readiness capabilities on all fronts for the Army of 2030 and beyond.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

The Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) recently announced that it seeks public comments on “whether and how” to amend the rules to clarify whether the CAS apply to indefinite value contract vehicles (or IDVs, otherwise known as indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity, or IDIQ, contracts). Comments are due no later than August 19, 2024. The full text of the notice is available here.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Alfred Gonzalez, most recently director of cybersecurity at Cubic’s digital intelligence division, has taken on the role of chief information security officer at Ultra Intelligence & Communications. He announced his move to Ultra I&C in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

On May 30, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 803 of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which modified 10 U.S.C. § 3455 to provide additional guidance regarding data requirements needed to support determinations of commerciality and price reasonableness under procurements for major weapon systems.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Michael Stewart has given a large portion of his life and career to the U.S. Navy, serving in almost every capacity — uniformed deployment, civilian and executive. He has blended a respect for tradition with a duty to incorporate lessons from the private sector and technology worlds to keep the service agile and competitive.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 27, 2024

The European Commission’s “Proposal for a Council Decision on the partial suspension of the application of the Energy Charter Treaty between the Union and any legal entity that is owned or controlled by citizens or nationals of the Russian Federation or of the Republic of Belarus, and any Investment within the meaning of the Energy Charter Treaty which is an Investment of an Investor of the Russian Federation or of the Republic of Belarus” (the “ Proposal ”) raises more questions than it answers

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Government Contracts

JUNE 27, 2024

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has hired a former associate general counsel for both Wells Fargo and Bank of America, who previously served as a U.S. attorney in the Central District of California and most recently as a Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partner.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 27, 2024

Horace Blackman Senior Vice President of Defense, Intelligence and Space, CGI Federal CGI recently secured significant wins in the defense sector, particularly focused on initiatives to enhance and modernize the U.S. Marine Corps’ logistics systems. With a new task order at the U.S. Marine Corps Platform Integration Center, CGI will expand the asset management capabilities [.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 27, 2024

A former deputy mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has admitted in federal court that he conspired with two business owners in a bribery scheme involving the acquisition and redevelopment of various city-owned properties, federal prosecutors said.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 27, 2024

V2X, Inc. has won a $265 million contract to provide technical support for NASA astronauts receiving crucial training for space missions at the Johnson Space Center’s Sonny Carter Training Facility. The contract is effective until 2033, with options periods. Under the contract, V2X will help ensure the reliability of the integrated hardware and software [.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 27, 2024

The Boeing Co. and the private investment firm it accused of forcing a new supply contract under false pretenses before raising prices for aircraft parts by more than 300% have agreed to settle their dispute, according to a new notice filed in North Carolina federal court.

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