AWS Public Sector
MARCH 15, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is easy to use—and that’s what makes the technology so exciting. But it’s important not to confuse ease of use with effortless deployment. The value of generative AI is inextricably linked to the technology’s reliability and traceability, as described in our earlier blog post, Generative AI: Understand the challenges to realize the opportunities.
FedScoop
MARCH 15, 2024
The ever-increasing backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests for federal agencies is due in part to technological issues facing the workers charged with fulfilling them, a new Government Accountability Office report found. The congressional watchdog, tasked by a bicameral, bipartisan group of lawmakers to investigate FOIA response delays, found that the backlog jumped from 14% in 2013 to 22% in 2022, with the growing complexity of requests, staffing shortages and increasing threats of liti
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Michael Parrish , chief acquisition officer and principal executive director for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction, has joined the ranks of Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for his work advancing the VA’s major programs and acquisitions and supporting U.S. veterans. As a 2024 winner, Michael Parrish is a contestant in the annual Wash100 popular vote contest!
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Despite the U.S. federal government not having yet passed a full-year defense appropriation for fiscal year 2024, the Navy has ironed out its request for FY 2025, including a sizable amount for its contribution to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, DefenseScoop reports.
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ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Science Applications International Corp. booked approximately $284 million in contracts from the U.S. Intelligence Community between January and February. SAIC said Thursday the contract awards include work across the areas of data, engineering and artificial intelligence.
Whistleblower Network News
MARCH 15, 2024
On March 14, the U.S. Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a $1.25 million whistleblower award. The whistleblower’s information “was quite significant because it, and it alone, caused the Division of Enforcement (Division) to open the investigation underlying the Covered Action,” according to the award order. Through the CFTC Whistleblower Program , qualified whistleblowers, individuals who voluntarily provide original information which leads to a successful enforce
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FedScoop
MARCH 15, 2024
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s artificial intelligence plans came into greater focus this week with a roughly $4.43 million request for AI-related funding in its fiscal year 2025 budget, a $3.7 million increase from the previous year, according to an agency spokesperson. In its congressional budget justification for FY 2025 , the NRC said it is looking to develop an AI regulatory framework for the nuclear industry, in addition to facilitating the responsible adoption of AI, which includes g
Government Contracts
MARCH 15, 2024
Amid both skepticism and excitement about the promise of generative artificial intelligence in legal contexts, the first randomized controlled trial studying its impact on basic lawyering tasks shows mixed but promising results, and underscores the need for attorneys to proactively engage with AI, says Daniel Schwarcz at University of Minnesota Law School.
Whistleblower Network News
MARCH 15, 2024
On March 12, a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) administrative judge ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a letter of “sincere thanks” to whistleblower Dr. Tommie (Toni) Savage. Dr. Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers.
Government Contracts
MARCH 15, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., suggested the Air Force's new nuclear missile program should be shuttered after it exceeded its expected cost to taxpayers by $36 billion, unless it can justify its relevance to national security.
Federal News Network
MARCH 15, 2024
The effort to make buying cloud services easier for agencies and more in line with industry standards continues with yet another acquisition workaround. The General Services Administration issued its second acquisition letter in just over two years, giving its contracting officers permission to move closer to buying cloud services “by the drink,” or through a consumption based model.
SmallGovCon
MARCH 15, 2024
Please join federal government contracts attorneys Nicole Pottroff & Greg Weber for this informative webinar on SBA certifications hosted by Catalyst Center for Business & Entrepreneurship. Participants will get an overview about the Small Business Certifications including: Woman Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business 8(a) Business Development Program HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business W
Federal News Network
MARCH 15, 2024
While the award lead times have generally decreased for defense contracts and orders over $250,000 in the last several years, it takes longer for the Defense Department to award larger contracts. The Defense Department uses the metric known as procurement administrative lead time, or PALT, to measure the time between the date an initial solicitation for a contract goes out and the date a contract is awarded.
The Coalition for Government Procurement
MARCH 15, 2024
With the first official day of Spring next week, it seems to be a perfect time to formally announce our planned agenda for our upcoming 2024 Spring Training Conference – What is Fair and Reasonable, Part 2: Let’s Continue the Dialogue! This two-day conference will be held on May 8-9 in Falls Church, VA, and will continue the impactful theme and meaningful conversation from our Fall Training Conference on “What is Fair and Reasonable?
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Michelle Freeman, formerly corporate controller at Tech Systems, has been named chief financial officer at network intelligence platform developer Axellio. She brings to the role over two decades of industry experience in managing corporate acquisitions, business transactions and enterprise resource planning system implementations, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-headquartered company said Wednesday.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
DCS has relocated its corporate office from Lexington Park, Maryland, to a new location in California, Maryland. The company said Thursday that the move sought to promote efficiency and improve support for customers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Comtech‘s (Nasdaq: CMTL) board of directors has named John Ratigan, chief corporate development officer, as interim CEO and elected Mark Quinlan as chair of the board following the termination of Ken Peterman for conduct unrelated to the business.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Cloud storage company Box has been selected by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to supply a cloud-based content management platform to the Defender Services Office to enable DSO to securely share content with U.S. district courts, federal public defenders and investigators. The company said Thursday DSO works to support Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys and federal public defender organizations representing indigent clients accused of federal crimes.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Beyond New Horizons has secured a potential 12-year, $3.8 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide test operations and sustainment support services for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Google Public Sector has chosen World Wide Technology to exclusively operate its new sovereign cloud platforms, Jan Niemiec , GPS managing director of national security, announced Friday. GPS entered into a partnership to make WWT the first managed provider of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted , which will serve federal agencies needing to manage their infrastructure even without internet connection.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
An investment affiliate of private equity firm J.F. Lehman and Co. has closed its acquisition of Cypress, California-based Mission Microwave Technologies for an undisclosed sum to support the latter’s product development efforts and growth initiatives in government and commercial markets.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Terran Orbital will unveil at the upcoming SATELLITE 2024 trade show SmallSat GEO , an offering meant for the communications market that will operate in geosynchronous orbit. Terran Orbital said Thursday that SmallSat GEO marks its entrance and expansion into the small satellite geosynchronous orbit market, an effort for which the company will take advantage of its prior GEO mission experience and its investment in an advanced manufacturing facility with automation in build and test.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Tysons, Virginia-based management consulting firm LMI has appointed technology industry leaders Kristen Cheman and Keith Rodgers as senior vice president of the intelligence market and SVP of digital and analytic solutions, respectively.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Leidos has delivered to NASA a test version of the universal stage adapter that will be used to connect the exploration upper stage of the Block 1B variant Space Launch System to the Orion spacecraft. NASA said Wednesday the full-scale prototype arrived at Building 4619 at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where it will undergo modal testing to validate dynamic models and ultimate load testing to assess the test article's structure.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Government and industry are playing a tense, competitive game of tennis in this year’s Wash100 popular vote contest. The private and public sectors are volleying back and forth, each making progress every other week while the other lags briefly behind. It’s making for one of the most nail-biting showdowns in years!
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
David Bassett , who has over 35 years of service in the Department of Defense and is the former director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, has been appointed strategic adviser to the board of Latent AI. In a statement Thursday, company CEO and co-founder Jags Kandasamy said Bassett will help improve services to “provide an unfair advantage to our warfighters in the era of strategic competition.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded seven small businesses positions on a potential $7 billion contract to provide fire and emergency equipment and related logistics support for U.S. military services. The Department of Defense said Thursday DLA launched a competitive acquisition process and received 14 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which will support the U.S.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 15, 2024
Carahsoft Technology will serve as a public sector distributor for BlueVoyant to market the New York-based company’s cybersecurity technologies and services to government customers. Under the agreement, Carahsoft said Thursday that BlueVoyant offerings will be accessible via reseller partners and the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 and National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint contracts.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
In today’s security environment — defined by an intensifying global competition and an increase in geopolitical tensions — data has become essential.
Public Contracting Institute
MARCH 15, 2024
Hello and thank you for joining us for Episode 5 of Fun with the FAR Season 11! In our next session, we will cover FAR Parts 4 (Administrative and Information Matters) and 24 (Protection of Privacy and Freedom of Information!) As we prepare for our 6th episode of Season 11, here are a few FAR Facts for us to think about: Generally, only a contracting officer can sign a contract on behalf of the Government.
Government Contracts Legal Forum
MARCH 15, 2024
Government Contracts and International Trade partner Addie Cliffe and Government Contracts counsel Liam O’Reilly discuss the Inflation Reduction Act’s Domestic Content Bonus Credits. Click to read more | Watch now on our YouTube channel The post Crowell Talks Tax: The Inflation Reduction Act’s Domestic Content Bonus Credits (VIDEO) appeared first on Government Contracts Legal Forum.
Kluwer Arbitration
MARCH 15, 2024
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador (“ Court ”) has recently analyzed the constitutionality of two International Agreements. On 28 July 2023, the Court declared unconstitutional the provision contained in chapter 15.20 of the Trade Association Agreement between Ecuador and Costa Rica ( Decision No. 2-23-TI/23 ), among other reasons, because it incorporated an state-private party (investor) dispute resolution clause providing for ICSID arbitration.
Government Contracts
MARCH 15, 2024
A then-assistant to former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar secretly recorded his boss as they discussed what to do with a $200,000 cash bribe amid an ongoing FBI probe, according to audio heard Friday by a federal jury considering racketeering and bribery charges against another former city official, Raymond Chan.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 15, 2024
Public sector consulting companies offer innovative solutions to help government entities address challenges across different societal requirements. They support public organizations in infrastructure, defense, and finance areas, among other sectors. Browse through this curated list of outstanding government consulting firms and discover their invaluable contributions to the government.
Government Contracts
MARCH 15, 2024
A coalition of South Florida gambling opponents are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's determination that a sports betting compact between the Sunshine State and the Seminole Tribe is lawful, arguing that their business and property interests will be negatively affected by the "unprecedented statewide gambling expansion.
Import and Trade Remedies
MARCH 15, 2024
On 13 March 2024, the European Parliament adopted its first reading position on the proposal from the European Commission to repeal and significantly reform the EU Customs Code (which we originally reported on in our blog available here ). On 17 May 2023, the European Commission published its proposal for the reform of the EU Customs Code, which aims to change the way that EU customs authorities operate, in particular due to the significant growth in e-commerce and the increase in product standa
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