USFCR
APRIL 14, 2025
A Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) contract reimburses a contractor for allowable costs incurred during a project and provides a fixed fee for profit. Unlike Firm-Fixed-Price contracts, where contractors assume the risk of cost overruns, CPFF contracts protect businesses from financial loss while still ensuring a reasonable return.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 14, 2025
Tom Watson, Serco Inc. Serco has won a recompete contract worth up to $96 million to support the U.S. Navys Constellation-class guided missile frigate program. The contract includes a 1-year base period and four 1-year options. Serco will continue providing technical services for the planning, design, construction, delivery and testing of FFG 62 ships and systems.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Redstone Government Consulting
APRIL 14, 2025
Terminated contracts do not relieve a contractor from dispositioning and closing out Government property. This will become a bigger issue as more and more agencies receive funding cuts or contracts are simply terminated.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
A Court of Federal Claims judge scrapped a 978.6 million ($1.02 billion) contract awarded by the U.S. Army for armed security services for installations in Germany, saying the agency relied on unstated evaluation criteria for past performance.
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,
GovCon Wire
APRIL 14, 2025
The Senate on Friday voted 60-25 to confirm John Dan “Razin” Caine, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To become chairman, Caine had to emerge from retirement, join active service and be promoted to four-star general.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
A Court of Federal Claims judge said the U.S. Air Force reasonably excluded two companies from competing for a contract to train drone pilots, after they failed to certify themselves as women-owned small businesses in the system for award management as required.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
The California Coastal Commission moved Friday for another dismissal of SpaceX's suit alleging the commission wrongly tried to block its plan to increase rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, saying because the commission's opposition was overridden by the U.S. Air Force, no harm was caused.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
Telos has secured a contract to provide field service representative support and technical expertise to the Department of Defenses Microwave Line of Sight, or MLoS, program. The $5.8 million contract has a six-month period of performance and a three-month option period ending on Dec. 31, the cyber, cloud and enterprise security services company said Thursday.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
Vinson & Elkins LLP has hired a partner from Perkins Coie LLP who is joining V&E's litigation practice and will co-head the firm's government contracts practice, the firm announced Monday.
FedTech Magazine
APRIL 14, 2025
The General Services Administrations move to FedRAMP 20x should make it easier for agencies to monitor the compliance of cloud-based artificial intelligence systems in real time. FedRAMP 20x is envisioned as a more agile cloud access management framework than the original Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which relies on a single snapshot in time when approving cloud services for agency use.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.
FedInsider
APRIL 14, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 60 Minutes | 1 CPE Cybersecurity has evolved from an afterthought to a fundamental component of modern IT systems. The rise of workflow automation and the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have significantly enhanced the power, reach, and effectiveness of cybersecurity measures particularly in breach detection and incident response speed.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
A jury correctly determined that a healthcare contractor was liable for the death of a woman in custody in a Washington jail, a split Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, but its $24 million award for punitive damages was excessive.
AWS Public Sector
APRIL 14, 2025
When natural disasters and conflicts create survival situations, the rapid response of the worlds hundreds of humanitarian organizations saves lives. Those organizations can save even more lives when they acquire information in pace with fast-evolving situations on the ground. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is investing $25,000 and providing hands-on engineering support to help the United Nations emergency reporting service, ReliefWeb , get up-to-date crisis information to everyone who needs itand ma
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
Cloud cybersecurity provider Zscaler has appointed Robert Skinner to its chief customer experience officers advisory team, bringing over three decades of experience in the military service. In his new role, Skinner will provide leadership on organizational efforts to enhance customer experience across the public and private sectors, Zscaler said in a LinkedIn post.
GovLoop
APRIL 14, 2025
As agencies become more complex and disbursed, their individual security systems some focused on physical access, such as video surveillance, and some on cyber threats become difficult to manage. There are too many systems monitoring too many things, and they generate too many alerts to be fully useful. But if an agency integrates its physical and digital monitoring systems into one platform, employees have a single window into the agencys entire security ecosystem.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 14, 2025
Amentum has received a $247.6 million contract from the Department of Defense Air Combat Command Acquisition Management and Integration Center, Counternarcotics and Global Threats, or CN>, Division to combat financial threats against national interests.
AWS Public Sector
APRIL 14, 2025
Alzheimers disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions worldwide. The Alzheimers Association estimates that over 6 million Americans live with the condition and is projected to rise to nearly 13 million by 2050. This increasing prevalence has spurred intensive global research efforts, with scientists working to understand the diseases complex mechanisms, identify potential triggers, and develop more effective treatments.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
WipeOS and Carahsoft Technology have collaborated to offer advanced data erasure technology to the public sector and health organizations. WipeOS said Wednesday Carahsoft will serve as the master government aggregator and make the formers secure data sanitization offerings accessible through the latters reseller partners and OMNIA Partners and E&I Cooperative Services contract vehicles.
AWS Public Sector
APRIL 14, 2025
Cloud computing, automation, and AI are driving a new wave of modernization in public services. Theyre helping to make them more accessible, responsive, and cost-effective, delivering almost $10 trillion in public value by 2034 , according to the World Economic Forum. The Kingdom of Bahrain shows how this can be done. Through a cloud-first strategy, the country has modernized its public services, boosted economic growth, and developed a culture of innovation.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted the artificial intelligence data cloud company Snowflake an Impact Level 5, or IL5, provisional authorization on AWS GovCloud US West.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 14, 2025
Wayne Sallurday, senior director of federal services sales at Dell Technologies, said 5G plays a key role in advancing the federal government’s IT modernization efforts and delivering enhanced defense capabilities to warfighters. In an article published on Carahsoft.
Kluwer Arbitration
APRIL 14, 2025
Unilateral arbitration clauses (also referred to as asymmetrical arbitration clauses) have been the subject of considerable debate as they typically involve granting one party the right to choose between litigation and arbitration, while restricting the other party to one forum (as discussed here ). As such, asymmetrical arbitration clauses create tension between the principles of party autonomy and equal treatment of the parties.
AWS Public Sector
APRIL 14, 2025
Connecting for Better Healths Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Community Sandbox enables simulated data exchange in a secure cloud environment, where organizations can readily identify, test, validate, and share strategies. The Community Sandbox aims to increase health and social services data quality, promote transparency among and across social and health systems, and replace laborious, point-to-point testing and troubleshooting with an always-learning, agile testing network.
FedInsider
APRIL 14, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025 | 12:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Government agencies need to strengthen cybersecurity defenses while reducing cost and eliminating unnecessary applications. Agencies seek to gain complete visibility and consolidation of data across multiple sources, both to strengthen their security posture and become more efficient through application rationalization.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
Joe Nay, a 25-year industry veteran with vast experience in the federal sector, has been named senior vice president for veterans affairs at Decision Lens.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 14, 2025
John Sahlin, a senior technology executive, announced on LinkedIn Friday that he has been appointed vice president of cyber pursuit at General Dynamics Information Technology. The seasoned executive is tasked with driving GDIT’s growth in the field of cybersecurity and developing strategies for its expansion in the defense sector.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
Sierra Nevada Corp. has further established its presence in Nebraska by joining the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. SNC said Friday that its increasing footprint in Nebraska highlights its advancing work in the U.S.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 14, 2025
Serco has secured a potential $96 million recompete contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and design support for future multi-mission small surface combatant vessels under the Constellation-class Guided Missile Frigate, or FFG 62, Program Office within the Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 14, 2025
Federal government technology provider LMI has appointed U.S. Air Force veteran Ryan McLean, as its chief technology officer for the Air Force market.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 14, 2025
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson has presented the 2025 Wash100 Award to Vincent DiFronzo, executive vice president for SAIC’s Air Force and combatant commands business group. DiFronzo, now a two-time Wash100 Award winner, is being recognized for his and SAIC’s contribution to strengthening national security and facilitating IT and business Operations Modernization of the U.S. military.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 14, 2025
Praveen Kurian, SAIC Praveen Kurian Senior Vice President of Defense Space, SAIC Since joining SAIC in 2023, Praveen Kurian led his team to impressive double-digit, transformational growth. Under his leadership, SAIC won major contracts in the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications AppFactory, Ground Based Radar Maintenance and Sustainment Services, and Digital Transformation, Acquisition, Modernization and Modification.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
A federal judge in Boston on Monday vacated an earlier ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from cutting$30 million inhousing anti-discrimination grants, saying a recent U.S.Supreme Court decision in a similar case involving teacher training grants likely strips the court of jurisdiction.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 14, 2025
Nick Merski, BlackSky Nick Merski Chief Operating Officer, BlackSky As COO, Nick Merski oversees BlackSkys engineering and product operations teams that designed, built and flies the companys constellation — the distributed network of imaging satellites which power the industry’s most advanced commercial real-time space-based intelligence platform.
Government Contracts
APRIL 14, 2025
Harvard University on Monday turned to a pair of high-powered lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and King & Spalding LLP as the school pushed back on the Trump administration's policy demands linked to nearly $9 billion in federal funding.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 14, 2025
Simon Moore, Air Partner Simon Moore has over 40 years of experience in the aviation industry, working his way up from a junior assistant to now serving as senior vice president of Group Charter at Air Partner, a Wheels Up Company and provider of global aviation services. But the Englishmans introduction to the aviation industry and the takeoff of a career that would place him among the worlds highest-profile missions was a twist of fate.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
52 
Let's personalize your content