Art of Procurement
JUNE 13, 2024
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, was passed to protect an ethnically Turkish, predominantly Muslim minority living in. The post Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Progress or Setback? appeared first on Art of Procurement.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 13, 2024
Timothy Yost, an industry executive with nearly three decades of financial leadership and strategic expertise, has joined BlueVoyant as chief financial officer. The company said Tuesday Yost will be responsible for developing and executing BlueVoyant’s financial and strategic plans to help guide its strategy and growth.
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FedScoop
JUNE 13, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it has awarded Oracle Cerner — the embattled technology provider of the agency’s electronic health record system — with an extension of its contract for EHR system modernization. The 11-month option, which the VA said “completes the second option period award,” follows a month of negotiations focused on “supporting value-added services” like system enhancements and improving predictability in hosting, deployment and sustainment, accordin
GovCon Wire
JUNE 13, 2024
The U.S. Army has awarded General Electric (NYSE: GE) a potential five-year, $1.13 billion contract to provide T700 series turbine engines for the service branch. The Department of Defense said Wednesday Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama is the contracting activity and received one offer for the firm-fixed-price contract through an internet solicitation.
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Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
A proposed tribal casino has asked the Seventh Circuit to undo a lower court ruling that found Waukegan, Ill., did not intentionally discriminate against it when the city chose three other competitors to operate casinos, saying the city ran a rigged review process.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 13, 2024
Blue Delta Capital Members has appointed industry executives Letitia Long, Lisa Disbrow and Anne Altman as members of the growth stage venture capital firm’s advisory board.
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GovCon Wire
JUNE 13, 2024
Medical device manufacturer Arthrex has received a five-year, $471 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver orthopedic procedural packages and supplies to military and government customers.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
An Illinois federal judge affirmed an arbitration award relieving two insurers of covering a $1.8 million bond issued to a subcontractor retained for a U.S. Army construction project, upholding the arbitrator's finding that the status of the project wasn't accurately represented at the time of bond procurement.
Whistleblower Network News
JUNE 13, 2024
On July 30, National Whistleblower Center (NWC) is hosting a National Whistleblower Day event on Capitol Hill to celebrate the bravery and sacrifices of whistleblowers and their contributions to rooting out fraud, abuses and corruption. The event will feature remarks from U.S. Senators, government officials, whistleblower advocates and whistleblowers themselves.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration's chief told a Senate panel Thursday that the regulator has diligently stepped up oversight of Boeing's manufacturing since January's harrowing midair door plug blowout on a 737 Max 9 jet, an incident that prompted multiple probes into Boeing's safety culture and quality control.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
John Mengucci, president and CEO at CACI International, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award in a recent in-person meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the prestigious honor.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
There are many ways that chess skills translate directly into lawyer skills, but for me, the bigger career lessons go beyond the direct parallels — playing chess has shown me the value of seeing gradual improvement in and focusing deep concentration on a nonwork endeavor, says attorney Steven Fink.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
Jason Layman, the managing director and founder of DigiSpark Advisory, announced on LinkedIn Thursday that he has taken an additional role as senior vice president for federal technology strategy at BigBear.ai. He will oversee BigBear.ai’s long-term growth strategy, mergers and acquisitions and strategic partnerships as well as help develop its technology and future business lines.
FedScoop
JUNE 13, 2024
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance cloud computing is dramatically reshaping the landscape of scientific research and discovery. Scientific breakthroughs that once took years to achieve are emerging in weeks, presenting new and powerful solutions to address complex global challenges. However, the accelerating rate of innovation also raises critical strategic questions for government and public policy institutions and whether they are prepared for the surge, sugg
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
RTX business Raytheon has secured a potential six-year, $293 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to continue support work for the company-built terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radars for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The contract includes an initial $33.7 million task order to maintain and develop the Silent Knight radar systems, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 13, 2024
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has received a $506.7 million contract to build three instruments and provide related services for NASA’s next-generation satellite constellation for land observation. Raytheon will perform design, engineering analyses, fabrication, testing, delivery and support services for the Landsat Next instruments that will form the future Earth observation system, NASA said Wednesday.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
Srini Iyer, senior vice president and chief technology officer for the health and civil sector at Leidos, said that instead of using a foundational artificial intelligence model, the company has built a health care application around a domain-specific generative AI model to further speed up the approval processing time for disability benefits.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 13, 2024
Zero trust – a security strategy based on the continuous authentication of all users within and outside an organization’s network – has gained momentum within the federal government in recent years, but making this vision a reality is not without its challenges.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
NASA is awarding over 200 small business teams a total of $44.85 million in funding under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Redstone Government Consulting
JUNE 13, 2024
Submitting data to the government, certified or not, carries significant risks, making compliance with FAR/DFARS essential.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
Apex, a spacecraft manufacturing company, announced completing its Series B funding round and securing $95 million. The investor group, led by XYZ Venture Capital, co-led by CRV and joined by other investors provided the new funding, the Los Angeles-based company said Wednesday.
Capital Edge Consulting
JUNE 13, 2024
Insight by: Norman McCord, Senior Manager Summary Timekeeping for government contractors is essential. Assuring your organization follows DCAA compliant time tracking procedures is key to a successful DCAA Floor Check. Our Experts compiled guidance with suggestions to assure organizations are prepared for Floor Checks. What is a Floor Check Audit? Labor is among the largest contract cost recorded to Government contracts.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
The Office of Personnel Management has begun soliciting proposals for a potential five-year contract to provide enterprise cyber, infrastructure and operations support services to the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
A joint venture awarded a $45 billion nuclear waste management contract by the U.S. Department of Energy accused a rival joint venture of relying on "lawyerly technicalities" to upend an award it said was ultimately determined by who could perform the work best.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
Future Technologies Venture has, in the past 12 months, received multiple Department of Defense projects worth over $30 million in total involving the deployment of private 5G networks.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
Vermont National Telephone Co. is fighting to preserve its false claim suit against Dish Network and others in the face of a dismissal bid from the federal government, arguing in a newly public filing in D.C. federal court that the government has provided no good reason for its "bad faith" change of heart.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 13, 2024
Drone technology company PDW has appointed Raymond Thomas, a retired U.S. Army general, as chairman of its board of directors. Ryan Gury, CEO and co-founder of PDW, said in a statement published Tuesday Thomas will help lead the company’s efforts to advance the adoption of small robotics in the U.S. military.
FedInsider
JUNE 13, 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is a dozen years old. It has always been intended as a comprehensive, risk-based security approach that enables federal agencies to quickly address threats in their environment – which means it is continuously changing, just as the threats keep changing and agency assets keep growing.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
A federal judge declined to make CVS hire a forensic auditor to evaluate its compliance with information demands in a lawsuit alleging it colluded with drugmakers to keep Medicare beneficiaries from accessing certain generic drugs, despite a whistleblower bemoaning "woefully deficient" discovery on the pharmacy chain's part.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 13, 2024
Anne Altman, Lisa Disbrow and Letitia “Tish” Long have joined Blue Delta Capital Partners’ advisory board. Altman is the former global public sector head of IBM, and a board member at several publicly traded and privately held companies, including Blue Delta-backed Gunnison Consulting. “Building truly scalable enterprise-level solutions for the customers is achieved when there [.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
A widower who sued Lockheed Martin Corp. claiming it exposed his wife to chemicals that ultimately killed her urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to reverse the dismissal of his lawsuit, saying a Florida federal court improperly excluded a key expert witness by not reviewing the evidence.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 13, 2024
Booz Allen Hamilton has appointed William Vass as chief technology officer effective June 17. In his role, Vass will accelerate solutions that leverage the firm’s deep mission knowledge and leading position in artificial intelligence, cyber, and software and data-centric capabilities. “As we bring transformative technologies to missions of national importance at speed and scale, we [.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
Although the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division has recently signaled interest in wiretaps, the use of this technology to capture evidence of antitrust conspiracies and pursue monopolization as a criminal matter has been rare historically, and is likely to remain so, say Carsten Reichel and Will Conway at DLA Piper.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 13, 2024
Brandy Durham Vice President of Global AI Practice, ManTech Brandy Durham and her team are enthusiastic about the recent launch of ManTech’s Data Analytics and AI Solutions Practice. Positioned to assist U.S. federal clients, the team combines the expertise of AI subject matter experts and mission specialists to operationalize data and improve decision-making against national [.
Government Contracts
JUNE 13, 2024
Former Connecticut state budget official Konstantinos Diamantis has missed deadlines to remove guns from his residence and claimed he couldn't locate his passport despite orders to surrender it to federal authorities while he awaits trial on bribery and extortion charges, a U.S. probation officer reported Wednesday.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 13, 2024
Tyto Athene has named John Coleman as chief operating officer and Michael Polmar as chief growth officer, following the acquisitions of Microtel and MindPoint Group. This marks Tyto’s third executive appointment in four months, after Dennis Kelly became CEO in March. “These two strategic hires will be instrumental to Tyto’s future success within the government [.
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