FedInsider
MARCH 14, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In today’s interconnected digital landscape, application programming interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between various applications and systems. However, with this increased connectivity comes heightened security risks, particularly concerning the protection of sensitive data in those APIs.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Mike Eppes, director of public sector at Keeper Security, said password management is one of the areas the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program addresses and defense contractors should account for such requirements. He noted that the Department of Defense and contractors must advance zero trust adoption.
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ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection intends to recompete a multiple-award contract for the procurement of cloud computing services. CBP expects the acquisition effort to have a ceiling value of over $100 million and anticipates release of a solicitation for the planned indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by May 1.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Christy Beach, formerly senior vice president of Patriot Group International, has been appointed chief operating officer, succeeding Robert Whitfield, who took on the chief growth officer role at the Warrenton, Virginia-based expeditionary mission support services provider.
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ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Stacy Smith, a semiconductor industry executive, has joined the board of directors of Intel , bringing to the board his decades of leadership experience in manufacturing and operations, branding, sales and marketing. He will serve on the board’s audit and finance committee in addition to his role as an independent director, the company said Wednesday.
Art of Procurement
MARCH 14, 2024
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Whistleblower Network News
MARCH 14, 2024
Whistleblower advocates are calling on members of Congress to include the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act as a part of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 , the large bipartisan tax bill currently being negotiated in Congress. National Whistleblower Center (NWC) sent a letter to Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee urging him to support the inclusion of the whistleblower reform bill.
WashngtonExec
MARCH 14, 2024
Executives responsible for environmental, social and governance aspects play a critical role in ensuring their organization is operating sustainably and ethically, while also creating long-term value for stakeholders. These ESG leaders typically oversee a wide range of functions, including environmental sustainability, social responsibility and corporate governance.
AWS Public Sector
MARCH 14, 2024
There is increased recognition that sustainability cannot be a siloed business unit within an organisation. With government-mandated climate action targets, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting requirements, and demands from end consumers on the environmental and social impact of goods and services, sustainability needs to be intrinsically linked with each organisation’s unique value proposition.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
The October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe Secure and Trustworthy Development of Artificial Intelligence launched the U.S. government into a new era of AI exploration. Federal agencies have since heightened their focus on AI adoption, and organizations across the public sector are constantly working to progress a variety of AI initiatives.
SmallGovCon
MARCH 14, 2024
Contractors will often enter into mentor protégé relationships and joint ventures to leverage the experience and skills of multiple parties for various reasons. SBA regulations dictate how the capabilities, past performance, and experience of a mentor-protégé joint venture will be evaluated. But at the end of the day, what matters is, whether agencies will follow those regulations in their small business set-aside solicitations and evaluations thereunder.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Dennis Kelly, a three-decade defense and intelligence community veteran, was appointed CEO of Tyto Athene, an Arlington Capital Partners-backed federal systems integrator.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Incubation firm Red Cell Partners is providing cybersecurity technology developer Eyris $3 million in pre-seed funding meant to allow the company to start a Department of Defense pilot program and offer services to other federal agencies. Eyris offers blockchain-based security and ransomware mitigation products that are cloud- and encryption-agnostic and work to integrate with various existing applications, Red Cell said Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Noblis President and CEO Mile Corrigan has earned a second consecutive Wash100 Award for her ambitious, growth-minded leadership of the science and technology organization. Vote for Corrigan and your other favorite GovCon execs in the Wash100 Award popular vote contest, open now until April 30! It’s been an exciting, neck-and-neck race thus far.
FedInsider
MARCH 14, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Mobile devices are a way of life today – including for government agencies. They are ubiquitous, and many agencies have embraced a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy that allows employees to use their own. But they have become a rapidly growing target for bad actors – so much so that the security company Lookout observed that Verizon said BYOD means “bring your own danger.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Small businesses Lexicon Consulting and Lukos have secured spots on a $610 million contract to provide mission support services for the U.S. Army’s training support center located at Fort Eustis in Virginia.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
The U.S. Special Operations Command awarded Iron EagleX a $29 million contract to assist in the establishment of an Intelligence Data Science Team for Program Executive Office - Special Operations Forces Digital Applications. The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that the company will collaborate with IDST analysts to integrate and engineer data using SOCOM's SOF Networks at the command's headquarters.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Autonomy software provider Metron has partnered with Cellula Robotics, a developer of subsea robotic systems, to build long-duration uncrewed underwater vehicle capabilities for use in the defense, subsea telecommunications, offshore energy and marine scientific exploration markets.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Ashley Meade , formerly senior director of operations at Amentum , has been named vice president of operations and program manager of the Africa Peacekeeping Program. She was director of operations and AFRICAP program manager at PAE, now part of Amentum, for nearly three years and was a senior pricing policy analyst at Lockheed Martin before joining PAE.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
Noblis Deputy Chief Information Officer Mark Lay has been chosen to succeed retiring vice president and CIO Gail Hogan. The company said Wednesday that Lay will also be part of its Executive Council in his new role, effective April 2024. The executive has been with Noblis for more than 15 years.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Steampunk has become a member of the NVIDIA Partner Network, a program designed to assist NVIDIA partners in expediting the delivery of artificial intelligence services to clients. As a solution advisor and consultant within the network, the Virginia-based company said Wednesday it will harness NVIDIA technologies such as graphics processing unit hardware, software development kits, pre-trained AI models and scaled inference platforms.
GovCon Wire
MARCH 14, 2024
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and SeaTech Global Security Solutions positions on a potential seven-year, $1 billion contract to support the deployment of counter nuclear smuggling systems.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Esri has secured a two-year, $56.2 million task order to continue helping the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provide foundational geospatial intelligence services to users worldwide. The task order was awarded under NGA's blanket purchase agreement and extends cloud, software development and database services on Esri's proprietary systems, the agency said Tuesday.
Government Contracts
MARCH 14, 2024
A record $1.34 billion will go toward Native American housing programs as part of an appropriations package passed by Congress, a $324 million increase over last year's funding.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Navin Gunalan , co-founder and CEO of VivSoft Technologies , has led a successful 18-year career in government contracting, specializing in providing technology solutions using his capture and business development skills for state and federal markets. In a recent Spotlight interview, Gunalan sat down with ExecutiveBiz to illustrate VivSoft’s rise to prominence, chat about its use of AI and the proliferation of the technology in recent years and more.
Public Contracting Institute
MARCH 14, 2024
False Claims Act (“FCA”) settlements and judgments exceeded $2.69 billion in fiscal year 2023, with Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and Health Care the leading area at $1.8 billion. The FCA imposes triple damages and penalties on individuals and companies who knowingly and falsely claim money from the U.S. government or knowingly fail to pay money to the U.S.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce the selection of Sonny Bhagowalia , assistant commissioner at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Information Technology and CBP chief information officer, as a winner of the Wash100 award for 2024. For his first Wash100 win, Bhagowalia is being recognized for his work in promoting the adoption of artificial intelligence to help his agency carry out its mission.
Government Contracts
MARCH 14, 2024
McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced Thursday the addition of a seven-partner team from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP that will focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the False Claims Act, saying it hired the team with an eye toward its white collar and government investigation capabilities.
ExecutiveBiz
MARCH 14, 2024
Cybersecurity company Everfox , formerly Forcepoint Federal, announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft. Under the agreement, Everfox said Wednesday that its technology will be integrated into Microsoft's Azure cloud service offerings and that the two companies will develop new cloud products.
WashngtonExec
MARCH 14, 2024
Navistar Defense, LLC has appointed Imtiaz Uddin as chief operating officer. In this position, Uddin is responsible for coordinating and improving various aspects of the company, including program management, manufacturing, supply chain logistics, quality assurance, safety protocols, and engineering initiatives within both defense and commercial manufacturing sectors.
Government Contracts
MARCH 14, 2024
The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling that ordered Indian Health Services to reimburse millions in administrative healthcare costs, saying if the two tribes prevail in the litigation, it would upend 35 years of practice between the agency and its contracting tribes.
WashngtonExec
MARCH 14, 2024
Noblis, Inc., will appoint Mark Lay as vice president and chief information officer following the retirement of current CIO Gail Hogan, which the company announced in December. In this role, Lay will report to Noblis’ Chief Financial Officer Gary Sladic and become a member of its executive council. “As a science and technology organization that [.
Government Contracts
MARCH 14, 2024
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has tossed an open-source gun group's lawsuit alleging that the federal government failed to follow a 2018 settlement allowing the group to publish firearm blueprints, rejecting the group's contention that dismissing a final claim would be unfair.
WashngtonExec
MARCH 14, 2024
DMI has welcomed back Ken Molenda as lead solution architect with the company’s Enterprise Bid and Proposal team. “We are delighted that Ken has agreed to rejoin DMI,” said Brett O’Donnell, senior vice president of Enterprise Bid and Proposal at DMI. “We are primed for significant growth opportunities, and Ken’s deep experience as a Solution [.
Government Contracts
MARCH 14, 2024
An FBI agent told a California federal jury on Thursday in former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan's federal bribery trial that Chan lied to him during a 2018 interview immediately after he was warned that lying to the bureau is a crime.
WashngtonExec
MARCH 14, 2024
Booz Allen Hamilton has won a 10-year, $550 million contract from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Booz Allen will support the advancement of high-potential, high-impact early-stage technologies that generate, store and use energy in entirely new ways to reduce U.S. emissions, improve energy efficiency, and increase the resiliency and reliability of the [.
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