FedScoop

APRIL 5, 2024

An artificial intelligence service deployed within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being put to the test for things like modernizing its websites and capturing information on school closures, the agency’s top data official said. The tool — Microsoft Azure Open AI that’s been configured for CDC use within its cloud infrastructure — has both a chatbot component for employees to use and the ability for more technical staff to develop applications that connect to the service via an

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Six companies have won spots on a potential $2 billion follow-on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific with incidental facility construction services.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The long-awaited and much-anticipated update to the basic management standards for the federal grants community is out. The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year. Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 5, 2024

On March 18, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed a complaint in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Avenger Products LLC and its holding company, Kittrich Corp., a pesticide and agricultural manufacturing company based in Lawrenceville. The DOL alleges that the company unlawfully retaliated against an employee who filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) claiming chemical exposures that threatened the workplace and its employees

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SmallGovCon

APRIL 5, 2024

Happy April! We hope everyone had a great week. Yet another beautiful spring Friday for us at SmallGovCon! And you guessed it, it’s time for your week in review. We’ve included some fascinating articles on what’s happening in the federal government contracting world we think you will enjoy. These included how contractors may be impacted in an election year, as well as a bill to reduce red tape in procurement.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Srinivas Attili, formerly a partner at McKinsey & Company, has been appointed executive vice president of the civilian business group at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC).

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APRIL 5, 2024

Dan Smith, formerly senior vice president of the federal sector at ZeroFox, has been appointed VP and general manager of the homeland security sector at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business unit, according to his LinkedIn post.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

CAE has selected Jason Goodfriend to assume the role of interim group president of its Defense & Security business unit. He will succeed Daniel Gelston , who will stay with the company through May 2024 to support the transition , CAE announced from its Montreal, Quebec headquarters on Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Tetra Tech has secured a potential $438.7 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support its Securing Power, Advancing Resilience & Connectivity activity. According to an award notice posted on SAM.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Carahsoft Technology has closed an agreement with Australian artificial intelligence firm Trellis Data to distribute the latter’s Secure Chat suite to government agencies. Michael Adams , sales director at Carahsoft, said Thursday the company is “pleased to add Trellis Data’s Secure Chat and Speech solutions to Carahsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning portfolio.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Bibiana Rais, who has almost 20 years of experience in business development and operations in the government contracting industry, has joined Precision Talent Solutions to serve as director of business development, GovCon Wire has learned.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Executive Mosaic is proud to announce the selection of U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse , the newly-appointed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award for 2024 for his dedication to ensuring the delivery of actionable intelligence to those who need it and for his determination to build up DIA as a world-class intelligence agency.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Josh Jackson, executive vice president of SAIC’s Army business unit, received his 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Vote for Josh to win the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com! Voting is open until April 30, and the winner will be announced in May. Who will your GovCon champion be?

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Enlightenment Capital , a government market investment firm , announced investing in Summit Technology Group , a key federal software partner, though the terms and amount of the investment were undisclosed. Devin Talbott , founder and managing partner of Enlightenment, said in a statement Thursday that STG will serve as the foundation for Enlightenment’s government and regulatory software solutions platform.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has promoted executive directors Kevin Pudliner and Susan Van Scoyoc to vice president of the information technology division and vice president of the energy, resilience, and sustainability division, respectively. The leadership changes will take effect on July 1, CTC said Thursday.

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GovLoop

APRIL 5, 2024

In our private lives, we interact every day with brands and services that shape our expectations of how government should engage with us. Applying for public services should be as easy as online shopping. And when agencies fall short, we remember. “When you have an experience that’s less than satisfactory … with government, it impacts how you feel about [it] and decreases trust,” said Jonathan Alboum, Federal Chief Technology Officer at ServiceNow, a company that facilitates agency transformatio

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

In its 10th week, Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 popular vote race has officially become a clash of the titans — a race between executives from the powerhouse organizations at the forefront of the government contracting industry.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 5, 2024

On the 7 th of March, Wolters Kluwer hosted a webinar to mark the launch of the book Investment Arbitration and Climate Change , edited by Anja Ipp and Annette Magnusson (co-founders of Climate Change Counsel) and published by Wolters Kluwer in January 2024. The webinar featured four of the book’s contributing authors: Caline Mouawad (Partner at Chaffetz Lindsey, New York, United States), Helionor de Anzizu (Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Geneva/Paris), Clara Reichenbach (Ass

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

With the U.S. fitting into a larger interconnected web of allies and mutually beneficial geopolitical relationships, anything the country does has ripple effects. Its maneuvers thus require negotiations with partners, which are enabled by technologies that are not just customized for one Department of Defense component, but accessible and usable by all parties.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

Equatorial Guinea is urging the D.C. Circuit to nix enforcement of an $8 million arbitral award issued to a Swiss company that was ousted from a hospital operating contract, saying a lower court should have looked closer at whether the dispute was adjudicated in the proper forum.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Battelle has received a potential seven-year, $350 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command for the acquisition of nonstandard commercial vehicles. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers lifecycle replacement of USSOCOM’s fleet of NSCVs, ancillary vehicle modifications and supply of armament, communications and modification packages, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has rejected an aviation fuel services company's suit alleging that the Defense Logistics Agency wrongly failed to mitigate the inadvertent release of sensitive information to the Miami company's rival, saying the agency reasonably determined that the information wasn't competitively useful.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Doug Cossa of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is among the Chief Information Officers (CIO) handpicked by the Potomac Officers Club (POC) to speak at the 5th Annual CIO Summit. He is set to discuss how public and private sectors can leverage emerging technologies to initiate new strategies and navigate the changing digital landscape.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

Utah is asking a federal judge for permission to defend the Bureau of Land Management's decision to sell oil and gas leases on more than 200,000 acres of public land, an action under legal attack from environmental groups.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Palantir Technologies has selected Oracle 's distributed cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure to host its suite of AI and decision acceleration platforms to provide joint offerings to government and commercial sectors. Under the agreement, Palantir will migrate its Foundry workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and deploy its Gotham and AI Platforms via Oracle's distributed cloud environments to defense and intelligence customers, the companies said in a joint statement p

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman urged a D.C. federal judge Friday to let her pursue a constitutional challenge to the law under which she has been suspended, and to reject her colleagues' contention that her case does not pass legal muster.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Great Mills, Maryland-based defense contractor J.F. Taylor has acquired software company Clear Creek Applied Technologies as part of a push to expand its portfolio of training systems and mission support platforms for the Department of Defense and its international partners. CCAT is a Dayton, Ohio-based company that has been developing and delivering mission-critical software applications and test and evaluation services to the U.S.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

A split Michigan state appeals court has refused to top attorney fees a construction contractor won against a county-level road agency that the contractor accused of failing to disclose certain hiring information, with the court finding the fees to be limited because the contractor dragged out litigation.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Great Mills, Maryland-based defense contractor J.F. Taylor has acquired software company Clear Creek Applied Technologies as part of a push to expand its portfolio of training systems and mission support platforms for the Department of Defense and its international partners. CCAT is a Dayton, Ohio-based company that has been developing and delivering mission-critical software applications and test and evaluation services to the U.S.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

A federal contractor settled claims that it slammed the brakes on hiring a naturalized citizen after finding out that she was not born in the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Deltek has completed a readiness assessment for its cloud-based enterprise resource planning offering under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Deltek said Thursday its Costpoint GovCon Cloud Moderate platform has received the FedRAMP Ready designation in the moderate baseline following a comprehensive evaluation.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

Recently proposed export control regulations from the U.S. Department of Commerce are an opportunity for stakeholders to help pioneer compliance for the increasing reliance on the use of outsourced technology service providers, say attorneys at Benesch.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Jacobs Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $570.5 million contract to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency repair and restore disaster-damaged, publicly-owned facilities in the West Zone regions. The company said it will partner with CDM Smith to provide site inspection, field support, technical evaluation and cost analysis services to FEMA under the Public Assistance Technical Assistance Contract V contract vehicle.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

The Biden administration is again pushing to escape survivors' efforts to hold it accountable for U.S. allies' airstrikes in Yemen, telling a Washington, D.C., federal court it had no authority over the executive branch's foreign arms dealing.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 5, 2024

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson delivered a 2024 Wash100 Award to Andy Green , an executive vice president of HII and president of the HII Mission Technologies division, during a recent visit to HII. Visit Wash100.com to cast your votes for Andy Green as your favorite 2024 Wash100 Award winner!

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APRIL 5, 2024

Palantir Technologies has selected Oracle 's distributed cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure to host its suite of AI and decision acceleration platforms to provide joint offerings to government and commercial sectors. Under the agreement, Palantir will migrate its Foundry workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and deploy its Gotham and AI Platforms via Oracle's distributed cloud environments to defense and intelligence customers, the companies said in a joint statement p

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