FedTech Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has expanded its Shields Up initiative with the launch of the Shields Ready campaign to improve situational cyber resilience governmentwide. Shields Ready complements Shields Up by enabling both the public and private sectors with tools, resources, policies and guidelines for mitigating cybersecurity incidents when they happen.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
The Military Sealift Command has awarded CACI a potential five-year, $69.2 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide worldwide logistics services. The services under the contract covers support lifecycle logistics, material handling equipment and ordnance handling equipment, ships acquisition, consolidated maintenance and logistics system, combat logistics force and ordnance management, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
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Whistleblower Network News
JULY 10, 2024
On July 2, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a DC Circuit ruling in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower case Lissack v. Commissioner. In light of the landmark Loper Bright decision, the Supreme Court has remanded the case back to the DC Circuit. The case has drawn the attention of whistleblower advocates , who have argued that the case presents an opportunity for courts to correct the standard of review used for determinations made by the IRS Whistleblower Office.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
Deloitte and Amazon Web Services will help customers worldwide scale their generative artificial intelligence, analytics, quantum computing and data capabilities using AWS services under a multiyear collaboration agreement.
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GovCon Wire
JULY 10, 2024
Jack Fletcher was appointed vice president of business development for Navy and maritime programs at Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS), according to his LinkedIn announcement on Tuesday. Fletcher joined the Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor from DRS RADA Technologies, another Leonardo subsidiary, where he most recently served as director of business development.
Holland & Knight: Government Contracts
JULY 10, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo upended decades of precedent that required courts to defer to agencies' interpretations of statutes.
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Redstone Government Consulting
JULY 10, 2024
In the June 27, 2024 Federal Register , the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) put out a notification that it was looking for input on its efforts to conform Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for Compensated Personal Absence (CAS 408) and Depreciation of Tangible Capital Assets (CAS 409). Back in March of 2019, the CASB published a Discussion Paper to collect initial input on the need for CAS 408 and 409 based on the changes that had been made
Government Contracts
JULY 10, 2024
Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.
Federal News Network
JULY 10, 2024
Conflicts of interest in federal contracting can happen in a lot of ways. In one tangled case, an award winner’s subcontractor turned out to have a conflict of interest. And it may have scuttled the deal. Haynes Boone Procurement Attorney Zach Prince joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Interview transcript: Tom Temin This one’s a little bit convoluted, but you’re always good at sorting them out for us, Zach.
AWS Public Sector
JULY 10, 2024
Mission operation centers (MOC) have been a critical element of humanity venturing into space, ranging from journeying to the moon in the 1960s all the way to present day and launching new satellite constellations. Traditional MOCs are composed of many different subsystems, including command and control, mission planning, flight dynamics, and payload processing.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
The government contracting field hosts numerous accomplished leaders across a variety of business and technology areas. Each year, Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award has taken on the task of identifying the strongest GovCon players from both the public and private sectors.
Scottish Government Procurement
JULY 10, 2024
We have published a new Construction Policy Note (CPN) providing advice to public bodies on inputting their project data to the Construction Pipeline Forecast Tool. The Tool has been developed in partnership with industry and public bodies to provide a centrally co-ordinated repository for recording where and when future construction work is likely to be conducted by the public sector.
GovCon Wire
JULY 10, 2024
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, accepted her 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO and Wash100 Founder Jim Garrettson. Each year, Wash100 identifies and celebrates the most accomplished leaders in the government contracting field.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
Federal agencies in the U.S. need to invest heavily in solutions with artificial intelligence embedded in them and develop along the same path or get left behind by China, AI technology firm Digital Science has warned.
WashngtonExec
JULY 10, 2024
Tyto Athene, LLC, an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company, finalized its acquisition of MindPoint Group on June 30. As part of the acquisition, Patti Chanthaphone, president of MindPoint, will serve as federal civilian group president of Tyto and lead its federal solutions business and help with future growth and cyber initiatives. “In a world where [.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
General Dynamics Mission Systems has completed the delivery of the 1000th F-35 nose radome, which protects the airplane’s radar antennas and enhances its navigation and communications capabilities. The radome also makes the F-35 a highly survivable and connected aircraft, GDMS said.
GovCon Wire
JULY 10, 2024
As director of emerging cybersecurity solutions for Carahsoft, Steve Jacyna keeps his finger on the pulse of the biggest cyber threats to government organizations, as well as the latest cyber innovations that protect against them.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
Draper Laboratory announced the creation of the Draper Advanced Packaging Facility in St. Petersburg, Florida, which will enable faster designing and building of microelectronic components.
GovCon Wire
JULY 10, 2024
Roger Mason, a government and industry executive and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has joined Parsons (NYSE: PSN) as senior vice president. Parsons said Tuesday Mason will bring to the Chantilly, Virginia-based company his three decades of experience in the national security sector.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
Thylacine Biotherapeutics clinched first place in the Medical Threat Reduction Challenge at the TechConnect World conference and expo in Washington, D.C., for its antiviral therapy platform.
GovCon Wire
JULY 10, 2024
Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, has completed its purchase of managed cybersecurity services provider MindPoint Group and appointed MindPoint President Patti Chanthaphone as head of its federal civilian group.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
Before entering the private sector in 2021, Rick Driggers garnered extensive experience working within the U.S. government. He launched his career right after high school when he enlisted in the U.S.
Government Contracts Legal Forum
JULY 10, 2024
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced that it seeks public comments on a proposed change to the contractor business systems regime. The proposed rule would amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) by replacing the phrase “significant deficiency” with the new defined term “material weakness,” to mean “a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in the internal control over information in contractor business systems, such that there is a reasonable possibil
FedInsider
JULY 10, 2024
Zero Trust has revolutionized the way agencies everywhere are securing their networks, and this week on Feds at the Edge , we talk with titans in the field, including John Kindervag, Chief Evangelist with Illumio, who in 2010 coined the phrase “ zero trust model.” We delve into this stricter cybersecurity program where identity leads in the guideposts in defending today’s cyber landscape.
Government Contracts Legal Forum
JULY 10, 2024
On June 26, 2024, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope of federal bribery law by ruling that 18 U.S.C. § 666 does not cover gratuities provided to officials for past acts. The Court held that Section 666, which outlaws bribery of state and local officials when federal funds are involved, does not extend to “gratuities” that follow an official act, in large part because regulation of such gifts is a matter of state and local law.
Kluwer Arbitration
JULY 10, 2024
On 12 April 2024, the Regional Court of Essen (“LG Essen”) dismissed Spain’s request for an anti-enforcement injunction of an intra-EU investor-state arbitration award ( 2 O 447/22 ). The LG Essen held that anti-enforcement injunctions are inadmissible because they violate state sovereignty. This blog post will cover the facts and background of the decision, examine the legal issues involved, discuss its implications, and provide an outlook.
Government Contracts Legal Forum
JULY 10, 2024
On June 24, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction, stopping the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from enforcing three key elements of regulations related to the Davis-Bacon Act and Related Acts (“DBA” or “Act”). The court order issued in Associated General Contractors v. U.S. Department of Labor will provide significant comfort and certainty to contractors that perform work on federally funded construction projects.
Government Contracts
JULY 10, 2024
Rite Aid agreed to a nearly $410 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the bulk of which will be an unsecured claim in the company's Chapter 11 case, that will put to bed allegations the pharmacy chain dispensed opioids illegally, the DOJ announced Wednesday.
Government Contracts Legal Forum
JULY 10, 2024
FAR Part 40, Cyber Reporting, Bid Protest This week’s episode covers a proposed rule to replace the phrase “significant deficiency” with “material weakness” for the government’s evaluation of contractor business systems, a GAO report on Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s current cybersecurity policies and procedures, and a nationwide preliminary injunction that halts the U.S.
Government Contracts
JULY 10, 2024
A Chinese-born engineer has pled guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return related to allegations that he and his wife omitted gross income from their tax returns between 2015 and 2019, after Texas federal prosecutors initially charged the couple with export violations and fraud.
WashngtonExec
JULY 10, 2024
CALIBRE Systems, Inc. has promoted Jeremy Barnwell to vice president of federal, civil and commercial, responsible for executing assigned projects in the FCC portfolio and sustaining and growing the division’s business area. “I am fortunate to have the opportunity to be a part of the CALIBRE Leadership Team,” he said. “CALIBRE is committed to providing [.
Government Contracts
JULY 10, 2024
With the dismissal of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's lawsuit against her colleagues over her suspension, experts say she faces significant challenges in securing a different outcome on appeal or persuading the court's other judges to let her hear cases again.
WashngtonExec
JULY 10, 2024
The Bosnian War, which began in 1992, lasted nearly four years and displaced over 2 million people. In this episode of “Humble Beginnings,” WashingtonExec’s Amanda Ziadeh sits down with guest Mladen Brkic, who came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1996 from Bosnia at age 18. Today, Brkic is chief financial officer and senior [.
Government Contracts
JULY 10, 2024
A Los Angeles drug testing lab will pay at least $1 million to settle claims it doubled-billed Medicare for toxicology tests for people undergoing treatment for opioid use disorder, Boston federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Public Contracting Institute
JULY 10, 2024
Sand Point Services, LLC brought two claims before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, both involving modifications and asserting duress. Sand Point Servs., LLC, ASBCA Nos. 61819, 61820, January 4, 2024. The first modification for certain “punch list work,” will not be discussed here. However, the second modification turned on whether Modification No. 2, which released the agency from a differing site conditions claim, was entered into by Sand Point under duress, as asserted by the
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 10, 2024
Doug Magee, president of the government services group at Day & Zimmermann, said in a recent video that his organization continues to focus on supporting U.S. government customers amid an evolving global threat landscape.
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