Federal News Network
AUGUST 14, 2024
The Defense Department today released a proposed rule that will inject Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, requirements into the contracting process. The proposed amendment to the Defense Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS) is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register Aug. 15. It would incorporate CMMC requirements into the Pentagon’s solicitations and contracts.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Boeing has secured a $264.1 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to provide services for F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G aircraft. The Department of Defense said Monday the aerospace company is tasked with providing inspections, modifications and repairs to the Boeing F/A-18 E and F/A-18 F Super Hornet fighters and the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.
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GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
The State Department has approved Israel’s request to buy F-15IA aircraft, advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, 120mm tank cartridges, family of medium tactical vehicles and M933A1120mm high explosive mortar cartridges from the U.S. government under five foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $20.3 billion combined.
Whistleblower Network News
AUGUST 14, 2024
On August 8, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it ordered FTX Trading Ltd. and Alameda Research LLC (together, FTX) to pay $12.7 billion in monetary relief to FTX customers and victims of FTX’s fraud. This is one of the largest CFTC enforcement actions to date. The order charged FTX with violating the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations.
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FedScoop
AUGUST 14, 2024
Few agency workers across the federal government are more closely and publicly associated with their area of expertise than Ted Kaouk is with data. A Naval Academy grad with a PhD in English from Maryland, Kaouk carved out that association during lengthy chief data officer stints with the Department of Agriculture and Office of Personnel Management, plus a three-and-a-half-year term as chair of the Federal CDO Council.
Redstone Government Consulting
AUGUST 14, 2024
QuickBooks Online is one of the most used accounting software for small to medium-sized businesses. The same is true for small businesses in the government contracting sector. QuickBooks Online does not label itself as a DCAA-compliant software to the extent that other software does (Costpoint, Unanet, etc.). However, it is a DCAA-compliant software, and it has the reporting capabilities needed to be considered as such.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
FedTech Magazine
AUGUST 14, 2024
NASA has more programs today than at any time in the agency’s history, but budgets haven’t kept up. To streamline projects, keep track of data and prevent the need for rework, the agency’s teams leverage model-based systems engineering methodology. A subset of digital engineering, MBSE houses the data associated with complex systems within integrated digital models.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
McLean, Virginia-based 22nd Century Technologies Inc. has acquired TreasurySoft in a transaction that expands its enterprise resource planning practice and capabilities to deliver digital transformation platforms to federal, state, local government and transit agencies.
Open Contracting Partnership
AUGUST 14, 2024
Although the United States spends over $170 billion dollars a year on critical social safety net services, accessing these services can be ludicrously burdensome. Technology, including AI, has the potential to improve how people experience these services by easing access to information for beneficiaries, empowering caseworkers to make more accurate and better decisions, reducing paperwork for all, and more.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
Scott Bauer announced on LinkedIn that he has been named vice president of business development at Integrated Data Services, a provider of information systems and support services.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Vertosoft, a public sector technology distributor, announced the launch of its Cloud Marketplace Accelerator Program, a co-sell alliance with Amazon Web Services that aims to streamline the process for independent software vendors to offer their wares on AWS Marketplace.
Federal News Network
AUGUST 14, 2024
The Army is expanding its approach to network modernization. It realized it needs to make investments at higher echelons at the division level. Over the last 18 months, Army leaders saw how this lack of focus has created haves and have nots across the entire service. Mark Kitz, the program executive officer for the Army’s PEO for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical ( PEO-C3T ), said the service is calling this pivot, the division of the unit of action.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Carahsoft Technology will be a managed service provider for mLogica, distributing three mLogica information technology modernization and big data offerings designed to help government agencies address current and future challenges.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
Rheinmetall is set to acquire for $950 million Loc Performance, a vehicle specialist headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, with a workforce of around 1,000 employees and customers in the civilian as well as defense sectors. Loc Performance’s offerings include drivetrains, suspensions and track systems, many of which are used by U.S.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
The NobleReach Foundation, a private nonprofit supporting tech and entrepreneurial talent development, has named as its board member Krishnan Rajagopalan, CEO emeritus of executive search company Heidrick & Struggles. Rajagopalan’s decades of talent acquisition experience across industries will help in its talent development programs, NobleReach said Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC) has received a potential five-year, $120 million contract from the U.S. Navy to continue providing support services for the Tactical Training Group Pacific’s fleet training mission.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Guidehouse, a global consulting company, is joining forces with Google Public Sector to provide support to federal government agencies in modernizing their systems and guiding their cloud-based transformation. The partnership is intended to make government operations more efficient, secure and modern, Guidehouse said Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
West 4th Strategy has purchased Integrated Systems Inc., an information technology and management platforms provider, for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand the delivery of IT and professional services to federal government customers.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Science Applications International Corp. has appointed CeCe DeCamp, a technology industry leader, as senior vice president and strategy and operations leader within the company’s civilian business group. DeCamp announced her appointment in a LinkedIn post published Sunday.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
Through two major plans this year, the Department of Defense announced its intention to take seriously the need for commercial space products. The DOD Commercial Space Integration Strategy and the U.S.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
BAE Systems has wrapped up integration and testing of the Wide Field Instrument, the primary camera system for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope designed to boost astronomical research. The company said Tuesday it had completed environmental testing to ensure the visible-to-near-infrared imager can withstand harsh launch and space conditions.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 14, 2024
Tracy Jeffries Riley announced on LinkedIn that she has taken on the role of vice president of contracts at construction services provider Chugach Government Solutions.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Chuck McGraw was selected as the new chief revenue officer of Performance Drone Works. The drone technology company said Wednesday McGraw is tasked with overseeing PDW’s revenue growth strategy. He will be responsible for ensuring the go-to-market functions stay cohesive amidst the company’s product and customer portfolio expansion.
Holland & Knight: Government Contracts
AUGUST 14, 2024
This Holland & Knight alert discusses distressed assets and their unique challenges: lease expirations and government holdovers, along with assignment of lessors' rights.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
TechnoMile made it to Inc. magazine’s 2024 list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States. The listing is the third straight year for TechnoMile to be recognized as among the most successful business organizations in the country, the company said.
American City & Country
AUGUST 14, 2024
Local governments are increasingly looking to incorporate electric vehicles (EVs) into their fleets, says Suncheth Bhat , chief business officer at EV Realty , a firm that helps companies and other organizations across industries optimize their EV fleet operations. The company develops shared private fleet charging hubs that service multiple commercial fleets in secure, high-power locations with dedicated charging access and availability.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 14, 2024
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, has shipped over 5,000 HL1120W electronically steerable antennas tailored for the Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit constellation.
Public Contracting Institute
AUGUST 14, 2024
Readers are aware that in order to prosecute a successful appeal of a claim made to a Contracting Officer (“CO”), a contractor must file its appeal within 90 days of receipt of the CO’s final decision (“COFD”), pursuant to the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, 41 U.S.C. § 7104(a). There is an exception to this section, and that is where the CO’s action to reconsider his or her decision vitiates the finality of the original decision, and may make timely an appeal that is more than 90 days after rece
Art of Procurement
AUGUST 14, 2024
If you work in procurement, it’s hard to avoid the topic of technology. Most procurement organizations have gone through decade-long. The post What is Procurement Technology? The Definitions, Trends, and Tools you Should Know appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that Boeing's plea agreement is the best possible criminal resolution that holds the company accountable for defrauding regulators about the 737 Max 8's development, rejecting claims from crash victims' families that the "morally reprehensible" deal lets Boeing skirt culpability.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 14, 2024
Leidos has won a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Integrated Program Office for Analysis for lifecycle management of existing and emerging analytics systems. The single award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is called Chinook, and has a ceiling value of $86.4 million if all task orders are exercised with a 5-year period of performance. [.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 14, 2024
A California federal court on Tuesday again allowed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to trim a lawsuit alleging it failed to protect a man who died in detention but kept claims alleging ICE failed to oversee its facilities or protect the man from COVID-19.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 14, 2024
Science Applications International Corp. has won a $120 million, 5-year contract from the Naval Supply Systems Command to support the Technical Training Group’s Pacific fleet training mission. “This contract reinforces SAIC’s reputation for providing the mission-critical training to the U.S. Navy since 1992,” said Barbara Supplee, executive vice president of the Navy business group at [.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense on Wednesday issued a proposed rule laying out how it will incorporate its stringent pending Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, intended to boost cybersecurity standards across the defense industrial base, into defense contracts.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 14, 2024
Cadmus has won the Digital Forward contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Digital Forward is a $200 million initiative to drive digital integration and expansion across USAID’s technical and regional sectors. Digital Forward is administered by USAID’s Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub’s Technology Division within the Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation. [.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 14, 2024
Trailboss Enterprises Inc. is protesting the General Services Administration's decision to award a $985.4 million transportation and logistics contract for unaccompanied children in federal custody to a competitor, saying it lost the contract because of a flawed selection process.
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