GovCon Wire
AUGUST 12, 2024
Peter Weilbach has been promoted to vice president of capture management at SAIC (NASDAQ: SAIC). According to a LinkedIn post shared Friday, Weilbach will be responsible for securing new business opportunities while working under SAIC’s space and intelligence business group. Weilbach has been part of SAIC for more than two years.
USFCR
AUGUST 12, 2024
The United States’ tradition of higher education is rooted in the earliest days of North American settlement. Harvard College, founded in 1636 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was followed by numerous state and private colleges that comprised the educational system of colonial America. These institutions were funded through various sources, including state taxes and donations, and primarily trained ministers through religious instruction.
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FedScoop
AUGUST 12, 2024
Microsoft’s increasingly ubiquitous artificial intelligence model has gotten the green light for FedRAMP High authorization, the tech giant announced Monday, making the popular AI product available for some of the federal government’s most sensitive datasets. Azure OpenAI Service’s approval as a service within the FedRAMP High authorization for Azure Government also includes the availability of GPT-4o, an OpenAI model that can be used for natural language understanding and processing, text summa
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
The deadline for U.S. Marine Corps servicemembers and their families to file administrative claims with the federal government over illnesses contracted by contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune passed on Saturday, with more than 320,000 claims that have been filed with the U.S. Navy.
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GovCon Wire
AUGUST 12, 2024
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has implemented changes throughout its internal programs and growth offices as the company aims to continue developing “mission-critical software” while collaborating with key industry partners.
FedScoop
AUGUST 12, 2024
Nearly two years after launching its bureau chief data officer program, the Department of State is seeing success and aiming to almost quadruple the size of its current cohort, Farakh Khan, director of communications, culture and training at the agency’s Center for Analytics, told FedScoop in a recent interview. The bureau CDO, or BCDO, program officially began in September 2022 as a way to improve its use, governance, and management of data throughout the department.
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Redstone Government Consulting
AUGUST 12, 2024
As we get closer to the fiscal year-end for government and calendar year filers , now is the time to start thinking about cleaning up your subledgers! In this article, we will explain what a subledger is, explain why it is a problem if they are out of alignment, explain how this happens, and then give you some ideas on what you can do to fix it.
Scottish Government Procurement
AUGUST 12, 2024
Meet the Buyer North is set to bring businesses together for the largest free procurement event in the North of Scotland. The Supplier Development Programme will hold the seventh annual Meet the Buyer North event on Wednesday 11 September at The Music Hall in Aberdeen. This free event will provide suppliers an opportunity to learn about upcoming contracts and opportunities in the North of Scotland.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
Cherokee Federal has opened a new state-of-the-art office in the Washington, D.C. area to complement the company’s existing offices and serve numerous government clients near the area.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 12, 2024
Today’s mission-oriented firms serving federal agencies may vary in size and solutions, but they relate in strong financial leadership driven by missions and customer needs. To excel, successful companies rely on mergers and acquisitions, strategic growth initiatives, strong operations and smooth integrations. But those successes don’t happen without financial leadership.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
Vasion, a digital transformation company, and Carahsoft Technology, an information technology company, have forged a partnership meant to boost the distribution of Vasion’s fully integrated automation platform to the public sector. Carahsoft said Thursday it will make the cloud-based, SaaS automation platform available through its reseller partners.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 12, 2024
Cubic Digital Intelligence has appointed Casey Gragg, a program management professional in the government contracting sector, as chief growth officer. Gragg announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Friday. Before joining Cubic, he was a senior business area manager at Ball Aerospace, which is now part of BAE Systems.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Space Systems Command has issued a solicitation for designs of a planned U.S. Space Force network of missile-tracking satellites in medium Earth orbit. According to a Friday notice on SAM.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Department of State has approved a potential $580 million foreign military sales request of Norway to buy 16 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and related equipment and services from the U.S. government.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
Ametek has promoted Rob Rideout Jr. to vice president of strategic procurement. Rideout most recently served as the division vice president of operations and supply chain for aerospace and power, Ametek said Thursday.
American City & Country
AUGUST 12, 2024
State legislatures were busy in the first half of 2024. The number of bills introduced among state legislatures in the first half of the year grew 1.4% compared with the first half of 2022 to total 76,756, according to a 2024 State Trends Report by Quorum , a public affairs software. On average, each state introduced 1,599 bills. Quorum measured the first half of 2024 against the first half of 2022 because the second year of a legislative session tends to see fewer bills compared with the first,
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
Last week, Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index dropped by 0.03%, a small loss that brought its four-week winning streak to a halt. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that provides a real-time look into the stock market performance of 30 key government contracting companies.
Kluwer Arbitration
AUGUST 12, 2024
We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal is now available and includes the following contributions: Klaus Peter Berger, The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts as a System of Transnational Contract Law: Two Recent Arbitral Awards Are the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) Principles of International Commercial Contracts just a restatement-like collection of principles and rules or a system of transnational contract l
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
Austal’s U.S. business arm has christened the future USNS Point Loma, an expeditionary fast transport named after a seaside community of the same name in San Diego, California, with a long-standing naval presence and home to a naval base.
Kluwer Arbitration
AUGUST 12, 2024
In the case of Sharp Corp Ltd v Viterra BV (formerly known as Glencore Agriculture BV [2024] UKSC 14 , the UK Supreme Court has decided the proper measure of damages under the Grain and Feed Trade Association (“Gafta”) default clause and reaffirmed the interpretation of section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (“AA 1996”). Whilst the facts of the case as presented are a little unusual, the Supreme Court’s conclusion provides guidance as to how damages are to be assessed generally in cases of defau
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
Anna Sever recently took on the role of president at business services provider Conduent, according to her LinkedIn account. Sever previously worked at business management consultancy Magellan Federal, joining the company in 2021 as senior vice president of strategy and growth.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday declined to disqualify an assistant United States attorney from a long-dismissed False Claims Act suit against Standard Chartered Bank, calling the whistleblower's arguments for disqualification meritless "to the point where they verge on vexatious and frivolous.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services has chosen Accelerated Business Strategies, a joint venture between Advanced Management Strategies Group and Xcelerate Solutions, to provide emergency management support to its Facilities Services Directorate.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected Booz Allen Hamilton's protest over a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs agreement for healthcare market assessments, saying there was no evidence that a key worker for the awardee wasn't available to work on the deal.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
SailPoint Technologies has elevated Matt Mills to president and appointed Gary Nafus as the company’s first chief sales officer. Both moves aim to broaden SailPoint’s executive team as the company continues to develop identity security systems for business entities worldwide, the software company announced Monday.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
A Court of Federal Claims judge has dismissed a technology company's protest over the U.S. Navy's alleged violation of a federal preference for commercial products when it issued a sole-source software contract, finding cancellation of the deal made the dispute effectively moot.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
AUGUST 12, 2024
On August 7, 2024 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a new Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) proposing regulations that prohibit the use of AI in automated dialing or artificial or pre-recorded voice calls absent the prior written consent of the call recipient, unless otherwise exempted by the FCC. The action was taken under the authority of Section 227(b)(2)(B) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) (47 U.S.C. § 227) which prohibits pre-recorded or artificial voice
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
Software company SolarWinds Corp. is in talks to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cybersecurity lawsuit after a Manhattan federal judge dismissed the majority of claims over a 2020 data breach, the parties said Monday.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
AUGUST 12, 2024
Stephanie Olivo, formerly the director of compliance at the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), has joined McCarter & English as special counsel, according to an announcement by the firm. She will be based out of the Newark, Trenton and Philadelphia offices. In her position at ELEC, Olivo was responsible for compliance with a number of laws administered by the agency, including the filing and reporting of contributions by corporations and individuals to candidates and offi
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently dismissed Caremark claims against the directors of Centene Corp. in Bricklayers Pension Fund of Western Pennsylvania v. Brinkley, indicating a high bar for a finding of the required element of bad faith for Caremark liability, and stressing the need to resist hindsight bias, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
AUGUST 12, 2024
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce honors Catherine Tung with the Young Professional Award for her advocacy and talent in creating economic opportunities that help make New Jersey a better place to live and work. Catherine has extensive knowledge of the New Jersey political landscape and previously served as the as the associate executive director of the state Assembly Majority Office before joining McCarter.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Second Circuit on Monday overturned a $5 million award to a nonprofit that faced pushback from a Connecticut town while trying to open a group home for individuals with disabilities, finding that it was unconstitutionally excessive, but at the same time castigated the municipality's officials for "highly reprehensible" conduct.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 12, 2024
A fully managed Amazon document database service that supports MongoDB workloads has received High authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for use by Amazon Web Services GovCloud customers in the U.S. East and West regions.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
James Tucker at MoFo examines three recent decisions concerning the consequences of providing solicited information in the wrong section of a bid proposal, the limits of agency discretion in technical merit, best-value tradeoff evaluations, and the weight of the experience and capabilities of small businesses in mentor-protégé joint venture qualification.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
AUGUST 12, 2024
Understanding cybersecurity frameworks and compliance is essential to fortify your organization’s data infrastructure against the fiercest of digital and enforcement tempests. Join Alex Major as we navigate the stormy seas of compliance requirements, ensuring you have the tools to weather the regulatory challenges facing contractors. MORE INFORMATION The post Demystifying Cybersecurity and Compliance – NIST, Levels, and Testing appeared first on McCarter & English, LLP.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 12, 2024
Blank Rome LLP's Robyn Burrows helped undo a U.S. Government Accountability Office ruling on a personnel dispute that cost KPMG a contract and convinced the U.S. Department of Energy to allow millions of dollars of costs for a Hanford Site contractor, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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