GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
During the Potomac Officers Club’s Army Summit in mid-June, the service’s Chief Information Officer Leonel Garciga collected his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Garrettson founded the honor in 2014 in order to properly celebrate the foremost change-makers who are shaping the government contracting field.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
Maximus has received an $87 million task order under a blanket purchase agreement to provide the Internal Revenue Service with end-to-end development and modernization services.
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FedScoop
JUNE 28, 2024
With a dense artificial intelligence inventory and more use cases on the way, the State Department has embraced AI to a greater degree than many of its federal counterparts. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is under no illusions that that embrace won’t cause concerns. Speaking Friday in Washington, D.C., before an auditorium full of State workers and hundreds on a livestream, Blinken addressed those concerns by posing an AI-related hypothetical.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
BlueHalo has been selected to build a next-generation counter-uncrewed aerial systems missile designed to defeat large air threats for the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday it will move forward with developing its NGCM offering in partnership with the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center Aviation & Missile Technology Consortium.
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Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decades-old precedent that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking, depriving courts of a commonly-used analytic tool and leaving lots of questions about what comes next.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
The FBI has awarded ECS, the federal government segment of IT services provider ASGN, a spot on the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services 2nd Generation multiple-award contract vehicle.
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GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential five-year, $476.5 million contract from NASA for analytical and physical processing services in support of the agency’s International Space Station, Artemis and other programs.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
By knocking down a powerful precedent that has towered over administrative law for 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's right wing Friday gave a crowning achievement to anti-agency attorneys. But for those attorneys, the achievement is merely a means to an end, and experts expect a litigation blitzkrieg to materialize quickly in the aftermath.
FedScoop
JUNE 28, 2024
Five years into its existence, the federal organization charged with helping agencies establish best practices for the use, protection and dissemination of data is a year away from sunsetting and still waiting on the release of White House guidance critical to its advisory mission. The Chief Data Officers Council was created in compliance with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 to promote data-sharing across the federal landscape and assist agencies with the implementati
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overrule a decades-old judicial deference doctrine may cause the "eternal fog of uncertainty" surrounding federal agency actions to dissipate and level the playing field in challenges of government policies, but lawyers warn it raises new questions over what rules courts must follow and how judges will implement them.
FedTech Magazine
JUNE 28, 2024
Recent developments in artificial intelligence require federal IT leaders to implement significant change management practices to keep pace while identifying opportunities and threats to their individual missions. That’s why the Office of Management and Budget issued a March memo codifying the need for AI governance and establishing requirements and recommendations for how agencies should address specific risks of relying on the technology in their work, especially when it impacts public rights
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
The skills I’ve learned while riding waves in the ocean and slopes in the mountains have translated to my legal career — developing strong mentor relationships, remaining calm in difficult situations, and being prepared and able to move to a backup plan when needed, says Brian Claassen at Knobbe Martens.
Whistleblower Network News
JUNE 28, 2024
On June 24, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced that three medical center institutions jointly agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by billing Medicare for concurrent heart surgeries. The three institutions are set to pay $15 million, the largest penalty ever for concurrent surgery charges, as part of the settlement, which is the result of a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit.
FedScoop
JUNE 28, 2024
Despite all the hype and excitement showered on the federal government’s adoption of generative artificial intelligence in recent years, agencies are still “very early on” in the journey to use large language models, according to Amazon Web Services’ public sector leader. In an interview with FedScoop on the sidelines of the AWS Summit in Washington, D.C., Dave Levy, vice president of worldwide public sector for AWS, compared these early days of generative AI adoption to
The Coalition for Government Procurement
JUNE 28, 2024
Earlier this year, the Coalition submitted comments on FAR Case 2021-017 , “Federal Acquisition Regulation: Cyber Threat and Incident Reporting and Information Sharing.” That process presented an opportunity to address the procedural substance of incident reporting, as well as the challenges the stakeholder community faces as multiple regimes addressing various aspects of cybersecurity are implemented.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
Mark Peters, a scientist and national energy laboratory executive, will assume the role of president and CEO of MITRE on Sept. 3.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
Microsoft has elevated Summit 7 as a global finalist for its 2024 Partner of the Year Award for Security. The award recognizes collaborators that have created and marketed formidable Microsoft applications, services and devices during the past year. Microsoft selected honorees from more than 4,700 nominations from more than 100 companies, Summit 7 reported Wednesday.
Federal News Network
JUNE 28, 2024
The Gormley Group’s Sean Nulty and Andrew Sisti join host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf for a deep dive into current trends shaping the contract negotiations and administration under GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. Nulty is a managing consultant and director of DC Operations & Training, and Sisti is a principal consultant and GSA Systems Subject Matter Expert for the Gormley Group.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
Jason Adolf, vice president of global public sector at Appian, said state and local government agencies facing limited technical resources and budgetary constraints can deploy a modern low-code platform to enable non-technical agency employees to digitize customer-facing processes.
Federal News Network
JUNE 28, 2024
Earlier this year, the Coalition submitted comments on FAR Case 2021-017 , “Federal Acquisition Regulation: Cyber Threat and Incident Reporting and Information Sharing.” That process presented an opportunity to address the procedural substance of incident reporting, as well as the challenges the stakeholder community faces as multiple regimes addressing various aspects of cybersecurity are implemented.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
Preamble has entered into a distribution partnership with Carahsoft Technology to bring generative artificial intelligence offerings to the public sector. Preamble’s GenAI products and services, which include the AI Trust Platform and the AI Marketplace, are designed to ensure compliance with the security and safety requirements of government agencies, Carahsoft said Wednesday.
Federal News Network
JUNE 28, 2024
The Justice Department's Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative chalked up another successful case by winning more than $11 million from two contractors to resolve False Claims Act allegations. Guidehouse paid $7.6 million and Nan McKay and Associates paid $3.7 million to put to rest claims they violated the False Claims Act. The companies failed to meet cybersecurity requirements in contracts intended to ensure a secure environment for low-income New Yorkers to apply online for federal rental assistance
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
The artificial intelligence tools of Palantir Technologies will be made available to Voyager Space under a strategic partnership between the two companies. Voyager said Thursday that it will use Palantir Foundry and the Artificial Intelligence Platform to enhance its payload management system currently used by space customers.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
A Navy contractor has urged a Court of Federal Claims judge to overturn the U.S. Navy's modification to a $50 billion professional services contract, saying the change had given an unfair advantage to mentor-protégé joint ventures and their member companies.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 28, 2024
Amazon Web Services will now provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps access to AWS Marketplace after the Department of the Navy amended a blanket purchase agreement it had awarded to the company under the Enterprise Software Licensing program.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
A medical professor at the City College of New York and paid adviser to Cassava Sciences has been indicted on allegations he falsified scientific data in grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health on behalf of himself and Cassava, prosecutors announced Friday.
Art of Procurement
JUNE 28, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – June 28th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
Columbia University shot back Friday against arguments from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that Federal Circuit judges should disregard arguments made by the firm's former client, who says the firm lied to a federal court in Virginia to avoid damaging testimony in a $600 million patent case.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
Roger Miller, former senior director for justice account at Paradyme, was elevated to the role of vice president of Department of Justice at the McLean, Virginia-based information technology company.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
A New Jersey businessman has admitted in federal court to engaging in two multiyear schemes to defraud the U.S. Defense Department on contracts for military equipment parts and agreeing to rig bids for government contracts.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has booked a $322.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army for low-rate initial production of the M10 Booker combat vehicle.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
Google has hired a former federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director to lead global public sector compliance at Google Cloud, where he will work to expand the platform's offerings in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and security to government entities.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
Core4ce has named Todd Harbour, co-founder and managing partner, as chief technology officer and appointed Kim Kok, formerly senior vice president of the public sector at HUMAN Security, as VP of sales and emerging technology.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
June saw NASA and the U.S. Space Force doling out billions of dollars for weather satellites, information technology services and national security space launches. Here, Law360 looks at some of the most noteworthy government contracts over the last month.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 28, 2024
The Department of Energy has awarded Aptim Federal Services a potential 10-year, $630 million task order to perform decommissioning work at two facilities in New York that supported the country’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
Government Contracts
JUNE 28, 2024
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed an $833 billion bill funding the Pentagon for 2025, amid a veto threat over contentious issues such as cutting funding for Ukraine and a bar on gender-affirming care.
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