ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Dan Skinner , head of federal go-to-market at Material Security , began his career nearly three decades ago and has since garnered a wealth of technical and leadership experience. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz, Skinner assessed the ways in which the cybersecurity landscape has changed over the past few years and shared his insights on the role of the cloud on this transformation.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

A Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) subsidiary has secured a $178.4 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a next-generation intelligence ground station system for collecting and disseminating sensor data.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

Better to be an early adopter than one scrambling to do everything at the last minute. That’s how Joe Powers sees it. As associate CIO for enterprise infrastructure solutions at the Office of Personnel Management, Powers is leading the agency’s rollout of Microsoft Windows 11. The new operating system replaces Windows 10, which will reach end of life in October 2025.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Donnie Parish , former chief information officer of Cherokee Nation Health Services, has been appointed vice president of strategic operations at General Dynamics ' information technology division. "My role will be supporting the Indian Health Service Health IT Modernization initiative, an incredible mission that I am thrilled to be a part of and something that means so much to me," Parish wrote in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday.

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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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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 7, 2024

On March 7, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be rolling out a whistleblower award program this year. “We’re planning something new: a DOJ-run whistleblower rewards program,” Monaco announced in a speech at American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime. “The premise is simple: if an individual helps DOJ discover significant corporate or financial misconduct — otherwise unknown to us — then the individual could quali

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

A lifetime of skiing has helped me develop important professional skills, and taught me that embracing challenges with a spirit of adventure can allow lawyers to push boundaries, expand their capabilities and ultimately excel in their careers, says Andrea Przybysz at Tucker Ellis.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

This week’s episode of Art of Supply features an interview with David Moran, an “unofficially retired” procurement and supply chain. The post Surviving the Supply Chain Arena appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 7, 2024

Ken Dodds, Coalition for Government Procurement Ken Dodds, vice president of Acquisition Policy at the Coalition for Government Procurement joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the latest policy, contracting, and program developments impacting small businesses in the federal procurement market. The discussion topics include the impact of the Ultima decision on small, disadvantaged businesses, the Forward Slope size appeal and the impact on Sea

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FedScoop

MARCH 7, 2024

The Department of Agriculture would be tasked with making cybersecurity upgrades to its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program under new bipartisan, bicameral legislation that aims to stop fraudsters who have already stolen tens of millions of dollars from the electronic food benefits cards. The Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act , introduced by Sens.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

Updated guidance on Fair Work First (FWF) in Procurement is now available. It was drafted in consultation with representatives from the public, private sector, third sector and included the Fair Work Convention. This replaces the previous Best Practice Guidance and Toolkit published in 2018. The purpose of this updated guidance is to support implementation of FWF, the Scottish Government’s policy for driving high quality fair work and workforce diversity across the labour market in Scotland by p

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice will soon begin a pilot program to financially reward whistleblowers who alert prosecutors to significant corporate misconduct.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Carahsoft Technology will serve as a master government aggregator for Rendered.ai to offer synthetic computer vision data subscription services and products to government clients. The services will be made available through reseller partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2, National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint and OMNIA Partners contracts, Carahsoft said Tuesday.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to release a request for proposals for a recompete contract covering human resources information technology services for Customs and Border Protection.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Mattermost has developed four new chat operations features aimed at enhancing real-time mission intelligence sharing for the U.S. Air Force 618th Air Operations Center. The California-based company said Tuesday the culmination of the 18-month development effort marks the fulfillment of the $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract it previously received through the AFWERX program.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $1.3 billion blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Homeland Security to provide DHS component agencies access to all Microsoft product offerings listed on the General Services Administration Schedule.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 7, 2024

The deadline to submit nominations for WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Awards is March 8, and we want your help finding the top chief information security officers taking their organizations to the next level. The COA luncheon will be May 10 at The Hilton in McLean, Virginia, and will recognize the most impactful and innovative C-suite executives [.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that Akima President and CEO Bill Monet has rejoined the ranks of Wash100 with his fifth consecutive win of the esteemed award. Monet’s 2024 Wash100 win builds on his momentum from previous years, in which he was recognized for spearheading company growth and landing major contract wins. His strong track record continued in 2023, in which he secured significant awards for Akima while leading a notable acquisition and bringing in top talent.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Rachael Martin, director of the Maven Office at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has made her debut on Executive Mosaic’s prestigious 2024 Wash100 list for accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across the federal government and for her strategic guidance of the Pentagon’s flagship AI program.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

A subsidiary of Airbus U.S. Space & Defense has opened a new hangar in Mobile, Alabama, dedicated to maintenance, repair and overhaul work on various U.S. military aircraft. Rob Geckle , chairman and CEO of Airbus, said the company has invested between $5 million and $10 million in the construction of the new military aircraft hangar, which adds nearly 18,000 square feet of workspace for Airbus U.S.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The U.S. Navy has awarded Integration Innovation Inc. a potential five-year, $187.3 million contract to design, build, test and deliver instructor-facilitated and self-directed interactive courseware training products for naval aviation and aircrew ratings.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Leidos has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services , a partnership that will see the two companies leverage their strengths to deliver innovations benefiting public sector and commercial customers. The multi-year SCA dedicates enterprise data management and analysis, automation and artificial intelligence resources and utilizes multi-domain operations capabilities to enable go-to-market offerings, Leidos said Wednesday.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Space is a rapidly evolving domain, and the federal government is looking to industry for modern technologies that could revolutionize related activities across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Software company Calabrio has announced the availability of Calabrio GovSuite for customers in the federal government. Calabrio GovSuite is a cloud-based contact center offering that has been given moderate authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Calabrio said Tuesday.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

John-Matthew Urby, an industry executive, has taken on the role of vice president of business development at Arcfield, a Chantilly, Virginia-based provider of systems engineering, integration and information technology support services for U.S. defense, intelligence, space and federal civilian agency customers. He announced his promotion in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

IBM has launched a cyber range that will offer custom training exercises to help federal agencies and critical infrastructure organizations respond to cyberattacks and threats posed by artificial intelligence. The company said Wednesday facilitators at the IBM X-Force Cyber Range will guide participants from agencies and companies through a series of breach scenarios and help them navigate resource issues, communication breakdowns and incident reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchang

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 7, 2024

The review mechanism of sports arbitration in Switzerland is under scrutiny. After previous criticism from a human rights perspective, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), in its recent International Skating Union (“ISU”) decision , found that the standard of review applied by the Swiss Federal Court (“SFC”) to mandatory arbitration awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (“CAS”) is insufficient to protect economic rights deri

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a grant worth $18.6 million to Princeton University and technology company EnCharge AI , which have partnered on a multi-year project under DARPA's Optimum Processing Technology Inside Memory Arrays program. The $78 million OPTIMA program seeks to develop compute-in-memory accelerators for the handling of artificial intelligence workloads relevant to defense, EnCharge AI said Wednesday.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

Federal judges spoke Thursday about the challenges of the profession in the 21st century, describing how they've either received threats or know of warnings against colleagues, with one jurist saying she received 11 death threats during her first three months on the bench.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 7, 2024

Arcfield’s subsidiary Orion Space Solutions announced that its Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager satellite successfully launched on March 4. This state-of-the-art electro-optical/infrared weather system spacecraft will provide high-resolution Earth observations and infrared data, enabling accurate weather forecasting for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, the company said.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

The Government National Mortgage Association told a Texas federal court Wednesday that even if it made oral promises not to void a Texas Capital Bank's interest in a first-priority lien on a multimillion-dollar emergency loan, those promises don't hold up legally and the case should be dismissed.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 7, 2024

Mexico is in the international spotlight as a prime nearshoring destination. With record-breaking 2023 investment and trade numbers, and an upcoming presidential election, 2024 will be a defining year for Mexico leveraging their nearshoring opportunity. In this pivotal year, we invite you to attend the flagship conference hosted by Baker McKenzie and the Atlantic Council in Mexico City to analyze how the future administration can leverage the nearshoring trend for the prosperity of Mexicans.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

A Louisiana shipbuilder accused the U.S. Navy of doing everything it could to thwart the company's success on a craft-building deal, telling a Court of Federal Claims judge it deserved at least $150 million for the Navy's alleged bad faith.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 7, 2024

Jeff Trauberman Vice President of Strategy, Analysis and Government Engagement, Velos Jeff Trauberman’s biggest 2024 achievement will be ensuring the success of the company’s diverse space clients. He said Velos has a great client mix of large established firms and smaller space ventures, all working to capitalize on space markets rapidly growing and evolving.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice argued Thursday in support of reinstating a qui tam lawsuit against two companies that gained control of a small Florida construction business, telling the Eleventh Circuit that they were not qualified for a government program that awards contracts to firms owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 7, 2024

Henry Choi Vice President of Growth and Strategy, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space, HII Mission Technologies Henry Choi leads the growth strategy for HII Mission Technologies to advance space initiatives in cyber, electronic warfare and modeling and simulation to the U.S. Space Force. As space becomes a contested domain, HII is applying its expertise [.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 7, 2024

The city of Sammamish, Washington, has quietly dropped CenturyLink from a state court lawsuit accusing it, Comcast and other companies of causing millions of dollars in roadwork delays by failing to move their infrastructure in a timely manner.

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