FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Federal agencies face a wide range of cybersecurity threats, including ransomware, insider attacks and phishing attacks. Some of these threats come from relatively new vectors such as Internet of Things devices. Others are much older and elemental, including memory safety. As far back as 1996, when Phrack magazine published an article by the hacker Aleph One titled “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit,” the world has known about memory safety vulnerabilities and how malicious actors can exploi

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On February 2, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) sent a letter to Andrea Gacki, the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), expressing concerns about significant delays in the implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Improvement Act. The three senators, who were instrumental in leading the Senate to its unanimous passage of the Act at the end of 2022 , wrote that “We were proud to introduce and pass

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Modernization is one of the U.S. Air Force’s top priorities, and USAF leaders have highlighted artificial intelligence as a major part of the service branch’s transformation efforts. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

J&J Worldwide Services and CBRE Group have inked a definitive agreement for the latter's acquisition of the Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company for $800 million in cash. In addition to the initial purchase price, the deal has a potential earn-out of up to $250 million, payable in 2027 and subject to J&J meeting certain performance thresholds, the Austin, Texas-based mission support services provider said Monday.

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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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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nikki Kodama has transitioned from vice president and B-2 program manager to VP of aerospace structures at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), she announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Jill Singer , vice president of defense and national security for AT&T ’s public sector business, as a 2024 Wash100 Award winner for advancing the adoption of 5G capabilities and promoting network modernization efforts in support of government missions. This year marks Singer’s seventh Wash100 win. Vote for Singer as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition!

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mack Defense and Navistar Defense have been selected for the initial development of the next-generation Medium Tactical Truck that will replace the U.S. Marine Corps' Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement fleet. Each contractor will develop and submit design concepts and a comprehensive project plan for the cargo variant of the MTT vehicle fleet under the program's 12-month phase I period, the Marine Corps said Friday.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Army Futures Command was initiated in 2018 to prepare the U.S. Army for future fights and make sure it’s developing strategies that will be resilient to threats decades from now. At the Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Wednesday, BG John Cushing, commanding general of U.S.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On January 19, the United States Attorney of the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, announced that New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) reached an $800,000 settlement over allegations brought under the qui tam provision of the False Claims Act (FCA). A qui tam whistleblower spurred an investigation that found that two radiology practices, Radiation Therapist Associates, P.C.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) third attempt to modernize the catalog management system running on its Advantage! program seems to have finally hit the right mark. GSA is expanding the number of users of the new FAS Catalog Platform (FCP) after a successful test run over the last year with vendors under the Office Supplies 4 contract. Mike Shepherd, the director of the catalog management office in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said industry sellers and agency buyers will see a

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Environmentalists and a coalition of states broadened their California federal court challenges to the U.S. Postal Service's decision to replace its aging delivery fleet with "gas-guzzling vehicles" powered by internal combustion engines, saying it failed to consider lower-emission alternatives.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The U.S. Department of State has approved a proposed $150 million sale of AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles to the government of the Netherlands. The sale includes 386 units of AGM-114R2 as well as technical assistance from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command's Security Assistance Management Directorate, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced Friday.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Washington state's labor department has alleged in a complaint moved to federal court that private prison operator GEO Secure Services LLC is illegally blocking inspectors from enforcing state workplace safety laws at an immigration detention facility.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. In this blog post, we’ll take key announcements from re:Invent and apply them to relevant K12 education use cases. From generative artificial intelligence (AI) to cost optimization, AWS can support your school, district, or educational service agency and enhance both the classroom and administrative experience.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

William Streilein is a federal technology executive with over three decades of experience. In May 2022, he was named the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer. Dr.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The General Services Administration has released a solicitation for the potential five-year, $1.8 billion Personnel and Readiness Infrastructure Support Management contract that seeks to provide enterprise platforms and professional services to improve capabilities that will enable soldiers and strategic partners to enhance readiness and meet mission requirements.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The U.S. Army concluded a squad-level assessment of the latest prototype of Microsoft ’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System. Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division tested the phase 2 IVAS 1.2 prototype for five days starting Jan. 22 at Picatinny Arsenal’s Tactical Behavioral Research Lab in New Jersey.

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Bruce Caswell President & CEO, Maximus Maximus enters 2024 with strong momentum after a successful 2023 marked by 7.1% organic revenue growth to $4.9 billion and a record backlog of $20.7 billion. Bruce Caswell credits the company’s leadership team and nearly 45,000 employees for the focused execution that delivered these impressive accomplishments.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A joint venture between Stantec and AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) Pacific subsidiary has received a five-year, $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide architect-engineer services for environmental planning services.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Department of Defense and other agencies want to incorporate graphics processing units as they ramp up their IT infrastructure with additional capacity to support artificial intelligence applications. Agencies have turned to accelerated computing to enable virtualization and production-grade AI software. Furthermore, the government is no stranger to high-performance computing environments.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Oviedo, Florida-based small business Shock Stream Phoenix Ventures has secured a $307.2 million contract to provide the U.S. Army with software development support services. The contractor will help the service branch develop, design, integrate, test, field, install, manage and document its software platforms under the potential seven-year contract, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Goal: Adopt skill-based hiring and develop training programs to build the staff you need. Jon Rogers is Director of Strategic Workforce Planning at the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT), which oversees IT for the state’s executive branch agencies. Partnering with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD), IOT has adapted an existing trade apprenticeship program to train people interested in a career change to IT and recruit them into roles in state government.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

ASRC Federal has won a potential 10-year, $500 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide hardware and material management support for three Navy Fleet Readiness Centers and 13 satellite locations.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Lockheed Martin 's venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in weather intelligence provider Meteomatics to support the latter's product development and market expansion initiatives. Meteomatics said Thursday it will use the capital to scale its high-resolution weather and climate technology and expand its presence in the defense, energy, aviation, insurance and government sectors.

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GovTribe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

GovTribe studied data from over 260,000 unique users and millions of interactions to find the top 20 opportunities in the federal market heading into February 2024. Let’s start by diving into the top three.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The National Institute on Drug Abuse within the National Institutes of Health has awarded Westat a potential $809.1 million contract to continue providing data collection and analysis support for the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. NIDA issued a solicitation in June and secured two proposals for the research and development contract in support of the PATH Study, according to an award notice published Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Science and technology are foundational elements of many U.S. Department of Defense initiatives and a key part of keeping pace with near-peer competitors. Though the nation has an expansive innovation ecosystem, there are still stovepipes that exist between S&T organizations, and according to defense experts, breaking down these barriers is necessary to maintain a technological advantage.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Idemia Group has formed three divisions focused on secure transactions, public security and smart identity as part of a reorganization effort that seeks to accelerate growth, streamline operations and provide innovative platforms meant to address the needs of customers. The company said Friday it named industry executives Philippe Oliva , Matthew Cole and Antoine Grenier as CEOs of each division and that Pierre Barrial will continue to serve as president and chief executive of Idemia Group.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Ravindra Gupta, a program management executive with over three decades of industry experience, has been named senior vice president of the Health Care Program Management Office at Trilogy Federal, according to a LinkedIn post.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Carahsoft will serve as a public sector distributor for software provider Fortra under a recently-announced partnership between the two companies. Carahsoft said Thursday that its GSA Schedule, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 and OMNIA Partners contracts will be the avenues by which Fortra's products will be made available to public sector customers.

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Redstone Government Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Contract Management needs to ensure they set aside enough time and read the contract before they sign it. We understand there are deadlines to meet, but you don’t want to get caught up skimming the contract because it is too lengthy, thinking you know all the clauses by heart, or ignoring legal jargon because you don’t understand it.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

HII ’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has concluded the builder’s sea trials for the San Antonio-class landing platform dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. in preparation for its delivery to the U.S. Navy in the spring. The company said Thursday the vessel, with hull number LPD 29 , underwent systems testing in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Indian arbitration bar was waiting for an important judgment of a 7-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court (“ Judgment ”), which reviewed its own earlier judgment in NN Global Mercantile Private Limited v. Indo Unique Flame Ltd. and Ors. (“ NN Global ”) covered in a previous blog post here. The issue before the Indian Supreme Court was whether the non-payment of stamp duty in a contract renders the arbitration agreement contained in the underlying contract unenforceable.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Rudy Fernandez , formerly senior director of maritime systems and integration operating unit at Northrop Grumman , has joined Frontier Technology Inc. as vice president of Navy/Marine Corps operations , he announced on LinkedIn Sunday. The transition follows his more than six-year stint at Northrop Grumman, where he also most recently served as Charlottesville site lead.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A retired New York Police Department inspector and longtime ally of New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday pled guilty in Manhattan state court to a misdemeanor conspiracy charge for his part in a scheme to use straw donors to inflate public funding of the mayor's 2021 campaign.

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

WashingtonExec’s Rachel Kirkland speaks with SAIC’s Vishal Tulsian about the upcoming Greater Washington Region Heart Ball. Tulsian discusses his grandfather’s experience with heart issues, his company’s involvement in supporting the American Heart Association and what he’s most looking forward to at this year’s Heart Ball on March 2 in Washington, D.C.

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