FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Native American tribes and tribal agencies looking to benefit from artificial intelligence and advancements in healthcare IT must prioritize cybersecurity and IT modernization, according to CDW technology experts, citing a recent Indian Health Service implementation as an example. “IHS is planning for a new electronic health record, and as a part of this implementation, there will be some transition to the cloud.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s release of encryption standards to protect against future attacks from quantum computers set in motion new work for government and industry to implement those algorithms. As that process begins, federal officials discussing the migration are highlighting the importance of actions such as prioritizing high-value assets, working toward “crypto agile” systems, and purchasing compliant tools.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms towards entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Barbara Larson, an industry executive with more than two decades of experience in financial operations management and leadership, has joined SentinelOne as chief financial officer. She will have oversight of SentinelOne’s FP&A, accounting, tax and treasury, investor relations and internal audit as well as other global financial operations, the company said Wednesday.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Walgreens has agreed to pay $106.8 million to settle claims across three lawsuits that it violated the False Claims Act and state laws for billing government health programs for prescriptions it never dispensed, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

On September 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Deere & Company, which does business as John Deere, agreed to pay nearly $10 million to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The SEC alleges that Wirtgen Thailand, a wholly owned subsidiary of John Deere, paid bribes in Thailand in order to obtain business.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Happy Friday the 13th! We hope you have a good week. This week has been busy in the federal government contracting world with multiple developments highlighting key areas of government procurement, spending transparency, and small business support. There are updates on a new federal spending bill, but also concerns about a shutdown, something contractors will be watching closely.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on students’ mental health and well-being. In fact, a staggering 87 percent of public schools reported that the pandemic had negatively impacted their students’ social-emotional development during the 2021–2022 school year. These effects have lingered long past the pandemic, and students’ social-emotional well-being remains a primary concern of administrators, teachers, and parents.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Floods are one of the most devastating events to strike a community—costly in terms of lives lost, damaged or destroyed homes, economic disruption, and damage to critical infrastructure. However, improvements in technology are helping local governments provide accurate assessments of flood risk, so steps can be taken to provide early and accurate warning of flood events, minimize potential losses, and improve outcomes and overall resilience after a flood occurs.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This is a guest post from Genomics England. Pathologists have been looking at morphological patterns in patients’ tissue sections highlighted by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining for more than a century. However, as the pathology transformation from glass slides to digital imaging gains momentum, it opens the door to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to complement expert assessment with quantitative measurements to enable data-driven medicine.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Next month, the Association of Commercial Space Professionals will be hosting the Space Nuclear Policy Summit in Washington D.C. It aims to get the two sides together, both nuclear and space, to help with some lingering questions. The future of space travel is going to require the aid of nuclear power, beyond the technical requirements for that are the regulatory and fiscal matters to deal with first.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Procentrix and ClearFocus Technologies have formed a joint venture to provide systems that improve cybersecurity throughout federal agencies. ClearPro Partners will aim to leverage decades of combined technological experience between ClearFocus Technologies and Procentrix to ignite and accelerate digital transformation, the Herndon, Virginia-based company announced Monday.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Rusoro Mining Ltd. (“Rusoro”), a Canadian corporation, filed an investment claim against The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (“Venezuela”), pursuant to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) Additional Facility Arbitration (“AF”) Rules of April 2006 (Case No. ARB(AF)/12/5). Rusoro claimed that, between 2009 and 2010, Venezuela expropriated its investment over mining rights and contracts without compensation, and committed other violations of the Canada-Venezuel

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Anduril Industries has added to its autonomous air vehicle portfolio the Barracuda AAV family optimized for on-demand and affordable production. The Barracuda variants, named Barracuda-100, Barracuda-250 and Barracuda-500, come in varying sizes, ranges and payload capacities, with upgradeable features to adapt to various warfighting missions, Anduril said Thursday.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Small Business Administration's new proposed rule on recertification affects eligibility for set-aside contracts, significantly alters the landscape for mergers and acquisitions in the government contracts industry, and could have other unintended downstream consequences, says Sam Finnerty at PilieroMazza.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft is integrating Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware into the Azure Quantum compute platform to offer a reliable quantum machine for commercial use. Atom Computing is developing second-generation systems with over 1,200 physical qubits and plans to build new hardware generations with increased physical qubit count, Microsoft said Tuesday.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached a $100 million settlement with FirstEnergy Corp. over its role in a $60 million corruption scandal Thursday, the same day the agency sued a former executive who collected tens of millions of dollars in executive perks while the wrongdoing unfolded.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Keegan Caldwell, founder and global managing partner of Boston-based law firm Caldwell, discussed how corporate organizations can harness the potential of their patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property assets through financing mechanisms such as IP-backed financing and patent litigation funding.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Vista Outdoor Inc. on Friday voiced support for an increased offer from Czech defense company Czechoslovak Group AS to buy a slice of the ammunition and outdoor company, while also urging MNC Capital Partners LP to make its "best and final" bid in a competing campaign.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Joint All-Domain Command and Control was already an ambitious undertaking. It’s been one of the most attention-getting Department of Defense initiatives of the 2020s, the Pentagon’s push to get all of its service branches interconnected across different access points (land, sea, air, space, etc.).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Registration is officially open for the 2024 Fall Training Conference on November 20-21 at the Fairview Park Marriott in Falls Church, VA! The theme of this year’s two-day conference will be “ The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ” and will explore the future of the Federal procurement system after the Presidential election. Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Maximus has booked a five-year, $40 million task order from the Internal Revenue Service to modernize the IRS Enterprise Data Platform. The EDP task order covers the delivery of analysis, planning, modernization and operationalization expertise for the development of the agency’s data management system, the global government services provider said Thursday.

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Discussions & Clarifications

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Recently, the Small Business Administration ("SBA") issued a proposed rule , which could significantly alter the status quo for permissible negative control. Impacted small businesses and their minority shareholders and investors should consider submitting comments to ensure that SBA's final rule provides sufficient clarity and flexibility so as not to upend current common practices when drafting operating agreements or stifle investment.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

SentinelOne has obtained high-impact level authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for two artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity services. The company said Thursday the high certification for the Singularity Platform and Singularity Data Lake allows more U.S. federal agencies, particularly those subject to stricter compliance requirements, to secure their most sensitive and critical information assets.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

National Grid PLC said Friday that it has agreed to sell its electricity supply system to the U.K. government for £630 million ($827 million), which will bring it into public ownership.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman have completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor. The test, which demonstrated wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications, was carried out at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, RTX said Thursday.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – September 13th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

General Electric Aerospace will collaborate with over 280 organizations in the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium, a National Institute of Standards and Technology initiative, to help develop guidelines ensuring AI’s safe and reliable use.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

RTX (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary Raytheon has received a potential $1.19 billion contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce and supply advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles to domestic and foreign military sales customers.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Oshkosh Defense delivered in August two robotic combat vehicle prototypes to the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday the prototype delivery marks the completion of the company’s contract with the military service as part of the Phase I Ground Vehicle Systems program.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The U.S. Navy has awarded 10 companies spots on a $669.9 million contract for the repair, maintenance and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers continuous maintenance, emergent maintenance and Chief of Naval Operations availabilities, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A few weeks ago, SBA released a proposed rule that would, among other things, modify the HUBZone program. We took a look at some of these changes when the proposals were released. As we promised in that post, we stated we were going to discuss some other aspects of the proposed rule in later posts. Today, we’ll be looking at some of the other changes that SBA is proposing for the HUBZone program, as there’s a lot.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Frederick Lodge has assumed the role of vice president of business operations at Peraton. The finance and business operations leader with over 20 years of experience confirmed his appointment in a LinkedIn post Thursday. In his new position, Lodge will oversee business operations for Peraton’s Citizen Security and Public Services Group.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A former Barnes & Thornburg associate is returning to the firm after an in-house stint with space launch service provider ABL Space Systems, but this time as a partner.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

ITT (NYSE: ITT) has completed its acquisition of kSARIA, a Behrman Capital portfolio company that manufactures and supplies connectivity offerings for the aerospace and defense end markets. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company said Thursday its purchase of kSARIA will be funded with a ~$460 million term loan and cash on hand.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Thousands of Boeing machinists and other workers walked off the job Friday after rejecting a proposed contract that union leadership had recommended for approval.

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