FedScoop

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Department of Energy is offering $70 million in funds toward research and development for technology that would protect delivery infrastructure against cyber-related threats and other physical hazards, part of what a senior agency official said is the prioritization of “the operational technology side of the house.” The All-Hazards Energy Resilience funding opportunity will be managed by the DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response, and a senior CESER official sa

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

ASRC Federal has appointed Joe Winthrop as its new chief financial officer. Winthrop has more than two decades of experience in key finance roles, ASRC Federal said Thursday. “I am honored to accept this role with ASRC Federal,” Winthrop said.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

The U.S. Air Force awarded Applied Research Solutions a $48.75 million contract to study and develop closed-loop sensing , reasoning and data processing technologies for military missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will cover multiple defense domains and is scheduled for completion by April 2, 2029. On Jan. 31, the Potomac Officers Club will host industry leaders, experts and government decision makers in the defense sector to put their heads together about the latest military technologie

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Frederick “Trey” Coleman, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has been appointed chief product officer at government technology company Raft. In this newly created role, Coleman will oversee Raft’s product portfolio, corporate offerings strategy and innovation-related initiatives in support of government customers, the company said Wednesday. “Trey is an incredible leader, technologist and defense expert.

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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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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

The U.S. Army sealed a $50 million undefinitized contract action agreement with BAE Systems for the construction of M777 lightweight howitzer major structures. The transaction allows BAE to restart production of the titanium structures, the first lot of which is expected for delivery in 2025, the company said Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

As space innovation accelerates, 2024 promises to be a year full of exciting rocket launches, satellite technology improvements and space exploration breakthroughs.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Phil Jasper, a more than three-decade aerospace and defense industry veteran, has been named president of RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon business.

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 4, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee announced that Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals (Methodist) agreed to pay $7.25 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations. Two qui tam whistleblowers alleged that Methodist defrauded Medicare by illegally paying kickbacks to physicians.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 5, 2024

Happy new year! We hope you enjoyed the holiday and are looking forward to what 2024 brings. It’s been a pretty mild winter so far, but we expect old man winter will be showing up any day now. Until then, everyone has been taking advantage of getting out and about without any major travel problems. We are all grateful for that. This week in federal government contracting news saw more insights on the new CMMC regime as well as important trends for 2024.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urged a Colorado federal judge to reject a bid to halt reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado, arguing in a brief Friday that an outdoor recreation group can't sue over impacts to Mexican wolves because the issue "has no connection" to their interests.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to launch a competition for a multiple-award contract to provide Lean-Agile software development and DevSecOps services for the systems delivery division within the Office of Information Technology.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

As attorneys and clients reset for a new year, now is a good time to take a step back and review some core ethical issues that attorneys should keep front of mind in 2024, including approaching generative artificial intelligence with caution and care, and avoiding pitfalls in outside counsel guidelines, say attorneys at HWG.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential five-year, $1.15 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to help military customers activate F-35 sites and meet hardware requirements.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

SandboxAQ President of Global Public Sector Jen Sovada and Head of Global Channels Robert Williams announced that their company has entered into a partnership with Carahsoft for the distribution of its offerings to the public sector via Carahsoft's contracts and resellers. Sovada and Williams said in an article published Thursday that the partnership covers its offerings in cryptography management -- dubbed Security Suite -- simulation and optimization and quantum sensing.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business will operate and maintain infrastructure components and related applications of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Biometric Identity Management under a potential three-year, $386.4 million task order, G2Xchange reported Friday.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Rancher Government Solutions will help customers field and scale virtual ground systems using the software-based OpenSpace Platform from Kratos under a strategic partnership. Gulla will serve as one of the speakers at the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads at the Tactical Edge Forum on Feb. 8. Register here to hear the RGS CTO’s insights as he joins a panel discussion on hyperconverged infrastructure.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

ZeroFox (Nasdaq: ZFOX) will continue providing the Office of Personnel Management with digital identity protection services following the issuance of two awards. The first is a potential $247.9 million multiple-award contract that will run through Sept. 30, 2028, while the second is a $41.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Leidos , in collaboration with the American arm of German technology developer Rohde & Schwarz, has deployed a new flight service voice communications system for the Federal Aviation Administration. The activity is part of the flight services required under a previously awarded contract in support of the FAA’s Future Flight Services Program, Leidos said Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

V2X (NYSE: VVX) will continue supporting the U.S. Army Central Command’s operations in Kuwait and other areas of responsibility in the Middle East under a $190 million training and range operations maintenance services contract.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

John Selman , the chief operating officer at management and technical solutions provider Amyx , is retiring. Amyx, which was acquired by Tetra Tech last year, said Thursday in a press release received by Executive Mosaic, that since joining the company in 2021, Selman had led more than 600 professionals in a variety of fields, including cybersecurity, information technology and program management.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 5, 2024

An interview with Jennifer Sanders, Superintendent of the Ohio Central School System (OCCS) at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) is responsible for a population of more than 44,500 prisoners. Their average age is a little older than 40, and the average stay in prison is 2.6 years.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Timothy Barton , former chief technology officer of Leidos company Dynetics , has joined DESE Research as CTO. The company announced Thursday that it hired Barton to oversee all growth, strategy, change management, planning, execution, technical differentiation and investments.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that a homeowners association (HOA) in California has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that the HOA obtained approximately $1.5 million in loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that the HOA was not entitled to receive due to its status as a 501(c)(4) organization.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Jacobs and its subcontractors were instrumental in the Missile Defense Agency's flight demonstration of Ground-based Midcourse Defense Weapon System-12 interceptor against an intermediate-range ballistic missile. Jacobs, which leads the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions contract, said Wednesday that it deployed employees in different locations to provide IT services, connectivity and communications for the flight test.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 5, 2024

The world has witnessed significant developments in the field of investment protection and dispute settlement in the past decades. This includes both investment treaty negotiations as well as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) practices. This field of law has also been subject of a heated debate and a desire for reform. In view of these developments, this blog post intends to analyze the feasibility of multilateral investment treaty (MIT) negotiations.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Maximus has received a contract from the Internal Revenue Service to help develop two systems. Under the $32 million Data Delivery Services award, Maximus is responsible for improving existing technological components and processes associated with these systems, the Tysons, Virginia-based company announced on Friday.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

A civil suit accusing a Florida-based compounding pharmacy and others of ripping off nearly $11 million from a Connecticut employee benefit plan is set to go to a bench trial Tuesday in state court, but settlement negotiations make it impossible to know which defendants will face the judge.

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Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ustawa o zapewnianiu o dostępności osobom ze szczególnymi potrzebami (dalej: Ustawa o dostępności; Ustawa) [1] nie przeniknęła, jak się wydaje, do powszechnej świadomości publicznej, w tym osób, dla których mają z niej wynikać istotne korzyści. Warto zatem uświadomić i rozpropagować jej obowiązywanie. Wprowadzenie Przedmiotowa ustawa – Ustawa o dostępności – w aktualnej wersji obowiązuje od kilku lat.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

Kentucky is asking the nation's highest court to reverse a Sixth Circuit decision that suggests states can't use their four-decade-old "certificate of need" policies to regulate new entrants into a state's healthcare market.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Register here to be part of POC’s 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit to hear leaders’ oversight in harnessing cutting-edge tech for enhancing military efforts. Technology continues to push military capabilities to its limits.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

Any requirement for Indian Health Services to pay contract support costs for activities funded by a tribe's third-party income would upend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, the federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court, saying two appellate courts erred when interpreting the law to determine that those additional healthcare expenses must be reimbursed.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sayres Defense has named Liz Dundon as its new chief operating officer. Dundon announced her transition to the new role on LinkedIn, saying she was excited about facing new challenges and that she would continue working with her organization "to provide support across the defense industry and beyond.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

A Delaware court remained steadfast Thursday in its decision to set aside a verdict finding an ex-Xerox unit that paid Texas a $236 million Medicaid fraud-related settlement tried to defraud its insurers into providing coverage, rejecting the insurers' request for a reargument.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) recently published its Annual Report for FY 2023, providing statistics regarding the adjudication of appeals between contractors and civilian agencies such as the Department of State, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the General Services Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

An engineering firm can't get an exception to a Pennsylvania state judge's order for a closed-door review of records related to a Pittsburgh bridge's collapse, amid an ongoing dispute over what victims of the collapse can get for their lawsuits and what's privileged due to an ongoing federal investigation.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 , signed into law on December 22, 2023, makes numerous changes to acquisition policy. Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group discusses the most consequential changes for government contractors here. These include changes that impose a new conflict of interest regime for government contractors with a connection to China, impose new restrictions and requirements, require government reporting to Congress on acquisit

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