Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Pentagon’s massive contract to overhaul the military’s system for moving military members’ belongings from one duty station to another has cleared its latest technical hurdle and is finally ready to start being used for moves, company officials involved with the multibillion dollar contract told investors Tuesday. A new round of IT integration testing, conducted in January, proved “successful,” said Stuart Bradie, the president and CEO of KBR.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The spy agency’s cyber director will be replaced by David Luber, deputy director of the Cybersecurity Directorate and former executive director of U.S. Cyber Command.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to include Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, in the 2024 roster of Wash100 Award recipients in recognition of his exemplary leadership of the McLean, Virginia-based satellite communications company and his commitment to innovation. Vote for Desch as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition!

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Digital Service is teaming with the department’s Office of Customer Experience on a new fellowship program that will bring workers for digital service delivery, procurement and customer experience strategy jobs to the agency. In announcing its digital service fellows program, USDA DS noted that it is seeking “diverse, talented senior technologists and strategists” from “different walks of life” to further Agriculture’s “wide-ranging missions.

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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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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Potomac Officers Club’s symposium on all things space domain is fast-approaching: the 5th Annual Space Summit will be held on March 5 at the Hilton-McLean in Virginia. At the event, the U.S.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I know what you’re thinking: Another post about AI and how it’s game-changing and if you’re not using it all day every day for everything you do, you’re miles behind the competition. Well, that might be half true. It’s genuinely game-changing technology, and if you’re not incorporating it into your business, you’re likely at a disadvantage. BUT, and this is a very big “but,” the right application of AI is far more impactful than whether you’re using it at all.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the past decade, the number of small businesses in the defense industrial base has decreased by 40%. With the first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy out, the Pentagon wants to turn things around. The recently awarded defense industrial base consortium agreement, for example, will allow industry partners, including small businesses and non-traditional contractors, to work with the Defense Department on defense supply chain technologies projects and potential research through prototy

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index slipped 0.17% to $4,788.02 on Feb. 16, 2024, but it was enough for a 0.99% weekly gain. On the other hand, Wall Street’s three major indexes snapped their five-week winning streaks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 lost 0.11% and 0.42% overall, while the Nasdaq shed 1.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the U.S. Supreme Court's latest battle royal over administrative powers, left-leaning justices at oral arguments Tuesday openly suggested that the landmark legal doctrine underpinning modern rulemaking might soon shrivel up, clearing the way for industry-led challenges to regulations on the books for decades.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

BAE Systems has completed its purchase of Ball‘s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business for approximately $5.5 billion. In August, BAE agreed to buy Ball Aerospace as part of the U.K.-based defense contractor’s efforts to accelerate its space market strategy and expand its technology offerings for the U.S. government.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

After the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent announcement that it will leverage data analytics in Foreign Corrupt Practice Act investigations and prosecutions, companies will need to develop a compliance strategy that likewise implements data analytics to get ahead of enforcement risks, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) will receive a potential $1.5 billion investment from the Department of Commerce through the CHIPS and Science Act to build and expand new manufacturing capabilities to produce more semiconductor chips for automotive, defense, aerospace, artificial intelligence, internet of things and other applications.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On February 16, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced that a Lexington toxicology lab, LabTox, LLC, as well as its owner and compliance officer agreed to pay over $10.4 million to settle whistleblower allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by billing Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary urine tests.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A Delaware vice chancellor has thrown out a stockholder derivative suit accusing Walgreens directors of ignoring an alleged scheme in which insulin pen prescriptions were overfilled and the government overbilled, ruling that the investors haven't shown that the company's top brass acted in bad faith.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Civic tech makes it easier for people to interact with government agencies. When well-designed, it improves constituent experiences (CX) and promotes equity and engagement. A new term to some, “civic tech” relates to technology that directly facilitates CX, constituent experience or communication. It can include applications such as community platforms that connect constituents to services and resources, open data initiatives and participatory budgeting tools.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mark McCreary, the chief artificial intelligence and information security officer at Fox Rothschild, leads his firm's internal AI strategy and provides counsel to other law firms trying to bushwhack their path through the often murky AI legal landscape, rife with hallucinated case law citations and disturbingly real deepfakes.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the end of 2022, Will Thompson, lead computational research consultant at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management , had a decision to make. The on-premises SQL server used by Kellogg faculty and students had reached the end of its life, and his team needed to identify a cost-effective way forward while ensuring that the datasets would remain highly available for researchers to use on demand.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek The government contracting market is a challenging and competitive space. With U.S. elections, evolving policies and funding uncertainty, 2024 will be especially competitive.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Pentagon’s inspector general said Defense vendors are getting millions of dollars they did not earn because of shortcomings in how DoD manages cost-plus contracts. At issue is the “award fees” the department pays to incentivize good performance on those contracts. A new audit found DoD usually has good justification to support the fees, but there were some glaring exceptions in a handful of Army and Air Force contracts over the last several years.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A Colombian restoration architect who wants to address the affordable housing shortage in the U.S., accused immigration officials in Florida federal court of disregarding more than 1,000 pages of evidence in denying him a national interest waiver for a visa.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Randy Kempton, a 16-year veteran of Raytheon now RTX (NYSE: RTX), has been named vice president of operations and supply chain for land and air defense systems at the defense contractor.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

February is Black History Month, and we thought it would be a great time to celebrate the success of black-owned businesses in federal contracting. I was curious to learn more about Black-owned businesses and was fascinated to learn that the first Black Insurance company was founded in 1810 and that in 1821 Thomas Jennings was the first African American to be granted a patent for what is a predecessor to today’s dry-cleaning methods.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

CAE (NYSE: CAE) has sold its health care business unit to Madison Industries for approximately $230.2 million as part of efforts to advance its focus on the training, simulation and aviation software markets.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Frank St. John , chief operating officer at Lockheed Martin , said the company's digital transformation initiative called 1LMX has been instrumental in ramping up production of high-demand defense systems, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, Javelin antitank weapons, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and PAC-3 missiles. "In 2024, we are on track to double HIMARS production, have increased Javelin’s production to 2,400 units per year and will deliver more than 10,000 GM

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sol Horwitz, a more than three-decade finance operations and accounting professional, has joined Catonsville, Maryland-based information technology services contractor RELI Group as chief financial officer. He brings to the role his expertise in federal government contracting and pricing and decades of experience in business development and operations and staff management, the company announced.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

David Krumm , a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general with over three decades of executive leadership experience, has joined the board of directors of robotics and autonomous company Auterion Government Solutions. AGS President Errol Farr said Tuesday, “Krumm's decades of military service in the U.S. Air Force brings an extensive level of expertise and experience to our board that will be invaluable as we execute our growth strategy.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Amongst the strides taken by the United Arab Emirates (“ UAE ”) in recent years, there is the improvement made to the enforcement process of foreign awards in the UAE courts. This post examines the legislative changes made in this area, how the UAE courts have approached applications for the enforcement of foreign awards and the grounds for refusing enforcement.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic is excited to celebrate Harish Luthra , CEO of SAP National Security Services , with the 2024 Wash100 Award. Luthra receives the award for his exceptional progress in helping the U.S. government become more cloud-centric. “The Wash100 Award symbolizes excellence in leadership and influence within the government contracting sector, and we are proud to be acknowledged among such distinguished peers,” emphasized Luthra.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (“SCCA”) has recently revamped its rules, aiming to solidify its position as a global leader in arbitration. The latest amendments, which have been elaborated in a previous post here , showcase a commitment to efficiency, flexibility, and party engagement, appearing to set a new standard for commercial dispute resolution and contain practical rules that are rare or absent in its comparable institutions.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Tammy Martin , formerly the division vice president of advanced engineering, research and operations at Jacobs ' sales operations unit, announced on LinkedIn that she has assumed the role of VP of growth and sales strategy at the company. Martin brings to the role a decade of experience developing tailored services for private and public sector clients, including NASA, all Department of Defense agencies and the intelligence community.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Ten New Mexico residents with property damaged by the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency in federal court Friday, saying FEMA is not processing their claims in a timely manner, in violation of an assistance measure Congress passed for victims of the wildfire.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Defense Innovation Unit has issued a commercial solutions opening to address a requirement for ruggedized network node hardware. DIU said that the FrontierNode CSO calls for equipment that would accommodate the deployment of government software, support administrative tools for hardware troubleshooting and enable communication up to the Top Secret level.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has doubled down on its case accusing software provider SolarWinds Corp. of failing to warn the public about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities that gave rise to a 2020 hack, providing a New York federal court with more detail about the involvement of the company's chief information security officer in the alleged cover-up.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Steven Harrison , a U.S. Navy veteran, has been appointed vice president of undersea warfare and support at Science Applications International Corp. Harrison most recently served as VP of government affairs for the naval business unit at SAIC, where he oversaw business development, strategy and congressional engagement initiatives.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A Miami law school adjunct professor supporting a pair of casinos seeking to undo the Seminole Tribe of Florida's gaming agreement authorizing online sports betting has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the establishments' case or reverse a lower court decision, saying the pact violates the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sidus Space has integrated NASA Stennis Space Center's Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications engineering unit into its LizzieSat FlatSat small satellite vehicle in preparation for its upcoming launch. The company said Thursday the integration was completed at its facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and involved multiple integration and communications tests to verify the ability to load the ASTRA flight software into the engineering unit.

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