Art of Procurement
JANUARY 11, 2024
Effective today, Dial P for Procurement is the Art of Supply podcast. Building on the strength of the category-leading Art. The post Introducing Art of Supply appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Federal News Network
JANUARY 11, 2024
The Pentagon on Thursday released a much-anticipated strategy to start remedying what officials say are serious shortfalls in the industrial base needed for national defense — so serious, they say, that even the combined industrial output of the U.S. and its closest allies currently can’t match that of China. The National Defense Industrial Strategy — the first DoD has even published — calls for “generational” changes in the way the U.S. government manages and fosters the defense industrial base
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GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Defense Innovation Unit Deputy Director Aditi Kumar has shared that the DOD tech hub is interested in branching outside the Pentagon’s usual collaborators for its Replicator initiative. Kumar will be bringing her expertise to offer more insight on Replicator opportunities at Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit. This Jan. 31st event will feature Kumar as a keynote speaker, alongside other notable participants, like Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
FedScoop
JANUARY 11, 2024
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ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Executive Mosaic spoke with Tim Boltz , director of the healthcare business at Carahsoft , to learn more about the AI demand signals coming from the federal landscape and better understand how AI will work in tandem with other emerging technologies and concepts to support a myriad of missions in the public sector.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Electronic warfare is the use of the electromagnetic spectrum to conduct offensive, defensive and supportive operations for military forces. As digital technologies continue to shape the modern battlefield, it is critical for the U.S. military to sharpen its capabilities in this domain, and the Air Force is currently exploring EW technologies in multiple use cases.
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Kluwer Arbitration
JANUARY 11, 2024
Svetlana Vasileva-Stratenwerth is the Secretary General of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) International. She manages the AFSA International Secretariat, where she oversees the administration of international arbitrations. Her professional journey spans over two decades, specialising in international trade, investment, and commercial disputes.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
SAIC has booked a $156 million award from the U.S. Army Reserve Command for system support services. Under the contract, SAIC and its collaborators will deliver a cost-effective service model that centers mission imperatives and user experience with secure, resilient IT services, the Reston, Virginia-based company announced on Thursday. SAIC is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club’s Achieving Transformative Cooperation for National Defense Forum on March 14.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 11, 2024
ManTech is one of the winners of a 10-year blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Justice valued at $500 million. Under the BPA, ManTech will provide high-tech, high-end engineering services and support that include network engineering and management, cybersecurity, application services, service desk, deskside support, and special operations/special projects.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Five companies were awarded spots on a five-year, $250 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for the production, shipping and delivery of relocatable buildings. Atlantic Diving Supply , Dorce Prefabrication & Construction, Itera, MVL USA and Panorama Contracting and Engineering Services will compete for orders under the contract.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 11, 2024
Drew Schnabel General Manager of US Government Solutions, Zscaler Drew Schnabel cites a top public sector challenge for 2024 as monitoring the continually evolving threat landscape, and adding even more security to the cloud-based systems that will support the 2024 elections. Shifting security to the cloud is another top challenge, he said. Some agencies are [.
Whistleblower Network News
JANUARY 11, 2024
On January 10, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), announced the creation of a Whistleblower Pilot Program offering non-prosecution agreements to eligible whistleblowers. “The program encourages early and voluntary self-disclosure of criminal conduct by individual participants in certain non-violent offenses,” the SDNY’s press release explains.
USFCR
JANUARY 11, 2024
In the realm of Forest Service contracting, the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system stands out as a specialized program distinctively designed to support emergency workers, particularly in wildfire management. Unlike general emergency programs that aid the public during disasters, VIPR equips emergency responders with pre-approved equipment and services, ensuring rapid and effective response capabilities.
Redstone Government Consulting
JANUARY 11, 2024
The Government can terminate its contracts, in whole or in part, through special contract clauses referred to as “ termination clauses.” Terminations can be frequent occurrences and can happen for numerous reasons, such as lack of funding, bid protests, changes in military strategy, technological advancement, federal operations, or national political agendas that change the government’s needs.
USFCR
JANUARY 11, 2024
Ben Stuecher, originally from Kentucky and raised in Clearwater, Florida, joined US Federal Contractor Registration (USFCR) as the Director of Strategic Operations in November 2022. His path to USFCR was driven by a desire to engage in a role that offered both diversity and the opportunity for professional growth.
AWS Public Sector
JANUARY 11, 2024
The research team at St. Louis University ‘s (SLU) Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) required vast quantities of anonymized cell phone data in order to study the impacts of large-scale social problems like homelessness and access to healthcare. Finding a reliable data supplier was relatively simple. When it came to storing, cleaning, and processing 450 terabytes of data, however, the team ran into challenges.
FedInsider
JANUARY 11, 2024
Originally designed to thwart minor malicious codes, Security Operations Centers (SOC’s) have evolved over the last 50 years what they are today; centers that provide 24 hour protection, 365 days of the year to for key government organizations. Even so, the profusion of threat vectors prove to be a challenge and many SOC’s will need to upgrade in order to keep up with the current threat landscape.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Lockheed Martin 's (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has secured a potential four-year, $462.4 million contract to operate and maintain development and test sites for the U.S. Navy's Aegis combat system. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the contract on a sole-source basis and expects work to conclude by January 2028.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 11, 2024
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are making their way to the public sector, whether agencies are ready or not. Generative AI made waves last year with ChatGPT boasting the fastest-growing user base in history. Meanwhile, Microsoft launched a generative AI service for the government in June, the Department of Defense announced a generative AI taskforce in August, and more initiatives are sure to come.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
General Dynamics ' (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a $170.8 million task order to help the Air Force Civil Engineer Center research and develop new life cycle strategies and methods to secure industrial control systems. GDIT will provide cybersecurity services to ensure less vulnerable deployments of the civil engineer control system to global users, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
Government Contracts Navigator
JANUARY 11, 2024
Elizabeth N. Jochum ● SierTek-Peerless JV LLCB-422085, B-422085.2 The post 60-Second Sustains: SierTek-Peerless JV LLC appeared first on Government Contracts Navigator.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has agreed to acquire Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $14 billion, or $40 per share, as part of efforts to expand its networking business in response to the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence tools and hybrid cloud platforms. Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts discuss the latest dev
SmallGovCon
JANUARY 11, 2024
Happy New Year to our SmallGovCon readers! While we have already posted some updates from 2024, it’s a good time to reflect on the important posts from 2023. This post revisits those blog posts from 2023 that were the most popular. Below, we summarize the blogs written in 2023 that were the most popular as well as the perennial favorites from years past that were the most viewed in 2023.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Amentum has received a potential seven-year, $321 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modernization support services for the military branch’s submarine command, control, communications, computers, collaboration and intelligence systems.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Accenture has agreed to buy digital transformation services provider Navisite from Madison Dearborn Partners for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its infrastructure and application managed services capabilities in support of information technology modernization efforts of customers in North America. Accenture said Wednesday it will integrate approximately 1,500 Navisite employees into its infrastructure engineering practice to help clients advance cloud transformation initiatives.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Aviation Logistics Center plans to recompete a contract for information technology professional services. The requirement will be competed as a HUBZone set-aside program through the National Institutes of Health IT Acquisition and Assessment Center’s Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3, also known as CIO-SP3, Small Business contract vehicle.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Steve Orrin , federal chief technology officer at Intel , said in an article published Wednesday in FedTech Magazine that government agencies should prioritize governance and assurance as they start evaluating use cases for artificial intelligence and should protect data and training models as they work to deploy AI tools. Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club's 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts discuss the latest
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Matthew Evon , director of finance at Iron EagleX since July 2022, has been named vice president of financial planning and analysis at the Tampa, Florida-based veteran-owned defense contractor. He will oversee the company's overall FP&A functions and provide the leadership team with accounting and corporate financial advice to inform business growth initiatives.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
RTX 's Raytheon business, in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, demonstrated the ability of its new GhostEye MR radar to support air defense operations during an extended exercise at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Raytheon-built radar technology was integrated into the command and control element of the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, expanding the missile system's capabilities against cruise missile
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Nick Trzcinski , a defense operations executive performing the duties of president at Aleut Federal since October 2023, has assumed the role full-time following the conclusion of an executive search process. Trzcinski started his career at Aleut Federal as chief operating officer in 2021.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Iridium Communications is developing a narrowband-internet of things non-terrestrial network service based on 3GPP 5G standards that would enable direct-to-device capabilities like 5G NTN messaging and emergency SOS on mobile. Iridium said Wednesday that the NB-NTN service, called Project Stardust, will be deployed on its existing constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites, which are already undergoing early-stage programming to accommodate the requirements of partner companies like smartphone
GovLoop
JANUARY 11, 2024
Migrating from state and local governments to federal agencies and back again, data is a dynamic resource. And that presents unique security challenges and the potential for what Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology with SolarWinds, calls “data spillage.” It happens when agencies share information with people who don’t need it. Organizations, he said, must ensure that they’re sharing data only with approved and authorized people based on use cases that define who should access what and why.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
Satellite communications provider iDirect Government has opened a new facility that will serve as an engineering hub for advanced electronic warfare and other transmission security services at its headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. The iDirectGov Engineering Center of Excellence will provide an additional platform for current engineers to develop the company’s security services and formulate strategies for EW, cyber risk, TRANSEC and countermeasures, the company said Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Ryan Macaleer , a more than two-decade IBM (NYSE: IBM) veteran, has been appointed vice president of software for the federal sector at the information technology services provider. "I'm stepping back into federal to lead IBM's software business. Our growth across the federal marketplace has accelerated especially with respect to hybrid cloud and [artificial intelligence]," Macaleer said.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 11, 2024
The State Department has approved the government of Egypt's request to purchase additional light tactical vehicle chassis and fleet build from the U.S. government under a potential $200 million foreign military sales agreement. The proposed FMS deal will add to a previous agreement that includes a 4-Man REV1-B Rolling Chassis with 190 horsepower diesel engines along with training for the chassis assembly process and maintenance, spare and repair parts and testing equipment, the Defense Secu
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 11, 2024
Antenna Research Associates will work to mature the digital resistive film manufacturing process under a Phase IIB contract modification from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. ARA looks to advance the industrial systems to produce various standard and on-demand resistive film products to meet customer needs at production quantities.
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