GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
IBM has received a $95 million contract to help the U.S. Agency for International Development boost the capabilities of host governments in Europe and Eurasia to identify and respond to cyberattacks targeting the critical infrastructure sector.
How to Crack a Nut
JANUARY 4, 2024
Happy New Year! I hope 2024 is off to a good start for you. My last project of last year (finished on the buzzer…) was a paper expanding the ideas first floated in the DigiCon blog post ‘ Resh(AI)ping good administration: beyond systemic risks vs individual rights? ’, which sparked interesting discussion at the DigiCon III conference last fall. With a slightly different (and hopefully clearer) title, the paper is now under peer-review (and so, as always, comments welcome ahead of a final revisio
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GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
Since we last spoke to Redhorse CEO and two-time Wash100 Award winner John Zangardi in January of 2023, the company has enjoyed growth, meeting and exceeding expectations.
Federal News Network
JANUARY 4, 2024
The General Services Administration got out from under one protest of a major acquisition initiative, only to be sucked right back into another protest. Thus is the always entertaining world of federal procurement — on step forward, one step back. Welcome to another installment of “As GSA’s Acquisition World Turns.” This episode starts with the departure of a leading man, Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service on Dec. 29, and addition of a new (yet to be known ma
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ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
Day & Zimmermann has received a potential 10-year, $985 million contract from the Tennessee Valley Authority for the provision of maintenance and modification services across various non-nuclear facilities. The Pennsylvania-based company said Wednesday its maintenance and construction division will be responsible for carrying out M&M work on hydroelectric dams, gas, coal and pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities.
GovCon Chamber of Commerce
JANUARY 4, 2024
"Government contracting is not a secret, it's just a process. When you follow the process, you'll have repeatable, predictable success as a small business government contractor." – Neil McDonnell, president GovCon Chamber Understanding the 7-Step Process for Success in the Federal Market To kick off our 2024 LinkedIn live series, we're going back to the foundational concepts that form the bedrock of your federal government contracting success.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
Management Science and Innovation has acquired Ascolta, an information security and software development services provider, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its artificial intelligence and DevOps capabilities for industry and federal government customers.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
Arlington Capital Partners has launched Kinetic Engine Systems as the Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm's new platform company focused on producing precision aerospace and defense engine components. Arlington said Thursday it formed Kinetic Engine Systems by combining the engine assets of its portfolio company Cadence Aerospace with newly acquired companies: Walbar Engine Components, AeroCision and Numet Machining Techniques.
Federal News Network
JANUARY 4, 2024
The Defense Department packed a lot of detail into its proposed rule for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, released just before the holiday break. But CMMC experts also see a lot of lingering questions that DoD will have to address in 2024 before finalizing the rule. The Pentagon announced its plans for a revised “CMMC 2.0” more than two years ago, after it delayed an initial CMMC rule issued in late 2020.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
Jon Love, formerly vice president of global business development at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), has joined Compass Group‘s U.S. subsidiary as senior vice president of corporate services, according to his recently published LinkedIn post.
Federal News Network
JANUARY 4, 2024
Whether Congress passes a 2024 budget or not, federal agencies will continue to engage in contracting. That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled. For a roundup of some of the most significant protests of 2023, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish.
Whistleblower Network News
JANUARY 4, 2024
The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Program is primed for a big 2024 according to leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto. In a new article for Bloomberg , Kohn outlines how the program is set up to be a game changer for the United States’ anti-corruption efforts. “The Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act has potential to be the most effective transnational anti-corruption law on the books,” writes Kohn.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 4, 2024
Maximus has won a 4-year, $32 million Data Delivery Services contract with the Internal Revenue Service through the Alliant 2 indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract vehicle. As part of this work, Maximus will provide development support to two mission-critical systems at the IRS, further strengthening the agency’s commitment to improving the taxpayer experience. “Federal agencies [.
FedScoop
JANUARY 4, 2024
The Federal Chief Data Officers Council is looking for information on synthetic data generation as it works to establish best practices, according to a solicitation posted Thursday. The request for information was posted by the General Services Administration for public inspection on the Federal Register Thursday. The RFI asks the public for comments on how to define synthetic data generation, in addition to potential applications, challenges, and ethics of the technology.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 4, 2024
A Methodist healthcare system and its subsidiary hospitals in Tennessee have settled claims brought by two whistleblowers over allegations it was accepting kickbacks, bringing an end to a messy battle where a judge sanctioned the DOJ and the DOJ accused the hospital system's attorneys of lacking courtesy.
FedScoop
JANUARY 4, 2024
Back in April, the U.S. Agency for International Development warned employees that they should only input information from “publicly-available sources” into generative artificial tools like ChatGPT. Until now, it wasn’t clear how, exactly, USAID was approaching the rapidly developing technology. Federal agencies have started crafting and solidifying their strategies for generative AI.
Art of Procurement
JANUARY 4, 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 – January 5th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential seven-year, $479 million contract to manufacture and deliver next-generation tactical communications radios to U.S. Special Operations Command. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has an ordering period of seven years and covers the provision of associated sustainment and support services, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 4, 2024
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge allowed specially trained U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to continue seeking overtime pay for time spent traveling for work, saying the government failed to prove travel time was not compensable.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 4, 2024
SAIC has appointed Kara Gerhardt Ross to chief communications officer. Ross will join the company from UPS Global Corporate Communications, where she served as president, international, executive and policy communications. In her new role, Ross will be responsible for SAIC’s Global Corporate Communications function, leading the development and execution of all internal and external communications, [.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 4, 2024
As the legal landscape shifts, it’s become increasingly clear that the BigLaw business model must adapt in four key ways to remain viable, from fostering workplace flexibility to embracing technology, say Kevin Henderson and Eric Pacifici at SMB Law Group.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 4, 2024
Wendy R. Anderson Senior Vice President of Federal & National Security, Palantir Technologies Wendy R. Anderson predicts that in 2024, a major challenge for the public sector will be adopting and regulating artificial intelligence responsibly, especially in critical areas like defense, healthcare and finance. It’s crucial for government agencies to balance AI’s rapid advancement with [.
GovLoop
JANUARY 4, 2024
The New Year has begun, and there’s no better way to start it off than with our free online professional development opportunities! Check out what we’ve got planned this month, and don’t forget, you can pre-register for all of our GovLoop Spotlight sessions this year to set yourself up for learning success. What CX Metrics Actually Matter and How to Measure Them To successfully measure your CX efforts, you first need to have the right metrics in place.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 4, 2024
Federal agencies need to ensure their data centers can withstand the effects of climate change, from record-breaking temperatures to unexpected outages and changing weather patterns across the globe. Investing in power and cooling technologies is one way to help keep operations running even when disaster strikes. Here are five questions about liquid cooling technologies: 1.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, to commence the development of a full-scale aircraft that uses active flow control for flight control. Aurora will build a nd demonstrate t he X-65 aircraft under the third phase of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program, DARPA said Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
Codeless development platform provider Unqork has appointed Sonny Hashmi, a previous Wash100 awardee, as head of public sector. Hashmi is a former commissioner within the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, where he formulated a roadmap for cloud computing and performance measurement and led information technology cloud modernization efforts, Unqork said Wednesday.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
Knightscope has received an authority to operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its autonomous security robots and blue light emergency communication system offerings. The ATO designation positions Knightscope to be an approved provider for federal agencies on the FedRAMP Marketplace soon, the company said Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
The Department of Energy has started soliciting proposals for a contract to manage and operate an Illinois-based national laboratory focused on advancing research and developing technologies in the field of high energy particle physics.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
CACI International and its small business partners landed three blanket purchase agreements to support the Department of the Air Force's Enterprise Information Technology as a Service Wave 1 program. The winning small business Contractor Team Arrangement members are Oneida Technical Solutions , Bowhead and Expansia and Enhanced Veteran Solutions , Hanscom Air Force Base announced Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 4, 2024
Wayne Reed has left his post as vice president of contracts at Arcfield to take on a similar post at government mission support services provider Aretum.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
Bombardier Defense secured a U.S. Army contract in December to provide a Global 6500 aircraft in support of prototyping efforts under the service branch's High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System program. The firm-fixed-price contract awarded by Army Contracting Command includes options for two additional aircraft over a period of three years, the service said Wednesday.
Kluwer Arbitration
JANUARY 4, 2024
Another session of Young ITA Talks , this time on sanctions disputes and arbitration, was hosted by Latham & Watkins in London on Wednesday, 22 November 2023. The panel, moderated by Young ITA Regional Co-Chairs Robert Bradshaw and Thomas Lane, offered an overview of the sanctions and related issues from multiple points of view: Katie Palms (DLA Piper, London) introduced what sanctions are and what kinds of sanctions-related disputes we are seeing; Sunny Mann (Baker McKenzie, London) discuss
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
BWX Technologies has appointed Nicole Piasecki to its board of directors , effective Jan. 2. BWX said Wednesday that Piasecki had worked in The Boeing Company for 25 years where she held various senior executive positions, including vice president and general manager of the Propulsion Systems Division for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Kluwer Arbitration
JANUARY 4, 2024
2023 was another year of growth for arbitration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It saw developments in investment arbitration and disputes relating to climate change, efforts to improve gender and cultural diversity, debate and guidance on the use of artificial intelligence, and pro-arbitration jurisprudence. We explore some of these key themes below.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 4, 2024
SpyCloud said Wednesday that it has secured a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract to help AFWERX, a component of the Air Force Research Laboratory, develop identity intelligence capabilities to strengthen the service branch's defense against cyber threats. The Potomac Officers Club will host the 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31 to discuss the latest developments in the defense technology sector.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 4, 2024
Joe Niehaus, senior vice president of logistics solutions for LMI, has won WashingtonExec’s Pinnacle Award for Supply Chain Executive of the Year, Private & Public Companies. On Nov. 16, WashingtonExec announced the Pinnacle Awards winners during an annual event showcasing government and industry executives who notably spurred innovation for federal clients in the region.
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