GovCon & Trade
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
In 2023, U.S. export officials were busy bringing novel enforcement actions, introducing new and far-reaching rules, and issuing guidance (and warnings) to the exporting community. We can expect 2024 to be similar. Join us for an insightful webinar where Thad McBride and Faith Dibble – international trade attorneys at Bass, Berry & Sims – will delve into the noteworthy enforcement actions of 2023.
Federal News Network
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro had a few choice words for contractors. The Department of the Navy is putting its contractors on notice to deliver ships, aircraft and submarines on time and on budget. Del Toro said it is time for contractors to spend more money on the future. "You can't be asking for the American taxpayer to make even greater public investments while you continue, in some cases, to goose your stock prices through stock buybacks, deferring promised capital investments," Del Toro s
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GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Candy Bishop, formerly senior director of capture and business development at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as vice president of enterprise capture, according to a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over three decades of industry experience in business development and account management.
FedScoop
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
New bid protests filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over a $50 billion, governmentwide IT contract vehicle known as CIO-SP4 prompted the agency handling it to request for an extension of the existing vehicle, an official confirmed. “The CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business extension requests are currently being routed for approval,” Ricky Clark, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ), said in an emailed stat
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Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The company behind a proposed — and highly controversial — 1.75 million square foot monkey rearing facility in southwest Georgia has taken its fight against local officials to federal court, accusing a development authority of trying amid public outcry to back out of a $300 million bond deal to finance the project.
FedScoop
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs has corrected a series of issues connected to its troubled electronic health record modernization initiative with Oracle Cerner, but problems with legacy pharmacy software from the contractor remain, an agency watchdog said Thursday. Testifying at a House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization hearing , VA Deputy Inspector General David Case said an upcoming OIG report will highlight “unresolved, insufficiently communicated pharmacy-related
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Whistleblower Network News
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
On February 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Brian Young has been named as the new director of the CFTC Whistleblower Office. Since it was established in 2010, the CFTC Whistleblower Program has emerged as an essential part of the CFTC’s enforcement efforts, including in the area of crypto fraud. “Leads generated from insiders are critically important to any financial enforcement program,” said Young.
SmallGovCon
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Touted as a “game-changer” when it was first introduced in 2016, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s All Small Mentor-Protégé Program isn’t new anymore. Known now as simply the “SBA Mentor-Protégé Program, it is still extremely powerful for large and small contractors alike. In this webinar, Gregory Weber and I will explain the ins and out of the SBA Mentor-Protégé Program, covering the program’s eligibility requirements, its potent benefits (including
Whistleblower Network News
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
On January 30, the United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Kentucky, Carlton S. Shier IV, announced that Thoroughbred Diagnostics and Edgewater Recovery Center LLC agreed to settlements amounting to a combined $7.1 million, resolving claims brought under the qui tam p rovisions of the False Claims Act (FCA). A qui tam whistleblower prompted the case, alleging that the drug rehabilitation facility, Edgewater Recovery Center LLP, had falsely submitted services to defraud healthcare progr
SmallGovCon
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
If you’re interested in learning more about the federal government contracting business, please join John Holtz and I, who will be co-hosting with Nick Bernardo at this live podcast event. Sign up now to join this free opportunity to speak with experts, who have actually helped people succeed in govcon and who will be happy to answer your questions.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The State Department has approved a pair of foreign military sale requests worth $219.3 million combined from the government of Italy’s request to procure an air-launched precision strike weapon and air-to-air missile systems from the U.S. government.
SmallGovCon
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
If you feel like prices for just about everything are going up, you’re not alone. I recently got my annual property tax bill, and the first thing I did (after recovering from a brief fainting spell) was to start Googling to find out how much I could get for one of my kidneys on the black market. I get the feeling that my county tax assessor would consider anything less than a double digit increase to be an embarrassing professional failure.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
David McKeown, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and senior information security officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD has published a strategy, a reference architecture and an implementation plan to achieve a zero trust-based architecture by 2027, DefenseScoop reported Thursday. “We want to achieve targeted zero trust by 2027.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Google has launched a new initiative to provide artificial intelligence-powered digital security tools to help security professionals boost threat detection and response efforts. The AI Cyber Defense Initiative will open-source a new AI-powered tool, called Magika, that uses file type identification to help security defenders detect malware and create the Secure AI Framework to facilitate the sharing of best practices for securing AI systems, Google said Friday.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) saw its engineering and support revenue increase 74 percent to $31.1 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, driven by a rise in U.S. government activity, and posted a record total revenue of $790.7 million for the full year, up 10 percent from the prior-year period.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Jim Gwiazda , vice president of public sector sales at Equinix , and David Young, public policy senior manager, said in a joint blog post published Monday that through the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act of 2023, Congress directs government agencies to advance the adoption of colocation, hybrid cloud, interconnection systems and other commercial data center platforms to enable them to meet their changing mission requirements.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has begun seeking information for a follow-on multiple-award contract covering software development support services.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that John Heneghan has been named a Wash100 awardee for 2024, marking the third straight year that the president of engineering and technology provider ECS is a recipient of the prestigious accolade. Heneghan's win is in recognition of his efforts to ensure that ECS captures key contracts and recruits the talent needed to continue operating effectively and competitively while innovating artificial intelligence, IT and cybersecurity products and servic
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize Mark Serway, president and CEO of Hitachi Vantara Federal, as one of the 2024 Wash100 Award recipients for driving company growth through executive appointments and delivery of mission-centric data offerings to federal government customers. Vote for Serway as one of your favorite awardees at Wash100.com.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Damian DiPippa is a known quantity in the aerospace, military and information technology systems worlds, with broad expertise in satellite operations, ballistic missile defense, avionics and more. He gained experience at companies like Northrop Grumman/TASC, ManTech and Engility. DiPippa spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the combinations that resulted in his new venture ARETUM , the values the company is built on and where it’s going from here.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Perdigita, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business and a joint venture of ANALYGENCE and Client Solution Architects, has secured a potential five-year, $80 million contract from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command and 16th Air Force for cyber test and range engineering support services.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Lockheed Martin has declared its Pony Express 2 technology demonstration mission ready for launch. Lockheed said Thursday that the mission involves the use of two 12U Renegade-class space vehicles provided by Terran Orbital to carry payloads that would showcase several capabilities. Top military leaders, defense experts and policymakers will come together at the Potomac Officers Club's Achieving Transformative Cooperation for National Defense Forum to explore the future of Combined Joint Al
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) was awarded a $143 million task order to support the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Intelligence Integration Center. The company announced Thursday that it was chosen for the design and implementation of the center’s Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination system.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
BAE Systems will equip the last four of the Air Force's 10 EA-37B aircraft with advanced electromagnetic warfare mission systems to boost their defenses against jamming attacks. The company said Tuesday the modernized EA-37B planes will replace the Air Force's fleet of 14 EC-130H aircraft that also carries the Compass Call electromagnetic warfare jamming platform.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
New Directions Technologies has won a potential five-year, $111.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide test, system and transition engineering support services.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Todd MacLeod , formerly the department manager of Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command program management at DCS , has been promoted to TACOM PM Support Division vice president and division manager at the company. In his new role, he will continue to drive growth while overseeing a team of defense acquisition professionals, Alexandria, Virginia-based DCS said Wednesday.
FedScoop
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The National Science Foundation is requesting information about spectrum research and development in order to assist the White House in developing a national plan. NSF, in concert with the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), issued a request for information on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to further the development and innovation areas of the National Spectrum Research and Development Plan
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Delviom has appointed as chief growth officer Michael Zembrzuski , a U.S. Army combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who has also worked with various U.S. government agencies like the Department of Defense, military and intelligence community leadership, state and local law enforcement, cabinet-level national security leaders and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
BlueHalo to Establish Defense Tech Platform Through Eqlipse Acquisition; Serco Books $525M FEMA Recompete Contract for Technical Assistance; Jim Edwards Promoted to Chief Growth Officer Post at SOSi; Wash100 Popular Vote Contest Update Click to Unmute
Kluwer Arbitration
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Expert witness evidence plays a pivotal role in the outcome of arbitrations, particularly in construction disputes. Rarely do construction disputes turn on significant differences between the parties’ versions of the facts, which are flushed out under dramatic, Boston Legal-style cross-examination. More often, it is the skilful application of settled facts by the parties’ legal counsel and experts that wins the day.
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Fourth Circuit declined to reconsider a panel ruling that overturned a former Contech executive's bid-rigging conviction, despite the U.S. Department of Justice's contention that the decision flouts long-standing precedent.
Kluwer Arbitration
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Part II of the 2023 Year in Review: Switzerland post ( see Part I here ) introduces new case law on the enforcement of arbitral awards. It also includes a continuation of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court’s (“SFSC”) case law on the parties’ duty of curiosity in respect of an arbitrator’s independence and impartiality. Enforcement a) In the Context of the New York Convention Decision 5A_739/2022 (12 October 2023) concerned an award rendered by a tribunal seated in Moscow against t
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Fourth Circuit on Friday resurrected a proposed class action brought by a recipient of government COVID-19 assistance that alleges Bank of America didn't protect his unemployment benefits, reasoning the bank account was subject to a federal law that guards government benefits.
Kluwer Arbitration
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
This post highlights the most significant arbitration-related decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“SFSC”) in 2023 that are of interest to the international arbitration community at large. Part I focuses on the scope of arbitration clause and its validity in the context of a party’s (in)capacity of discernment, as well as on the new developments regarding res iudicata.
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
U.S. Circuit Judge Jimmie V. Reyna on Friday told intellectual property attorneys that the best way to establish credibility at the Federal Circuit is through a well-written brief, saying otherwise they put him in a bad position and deprive him of coffee.
Public Contracting Institute
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Hello and thank you for joining us for Episode 4 of Fun with the FAR Season 11! In our next session, we will cover FAR Part 7 (Acquisition Planning), Part 10 (Market Research), and Part 11 (Describing Agency Needs)! As we prepare for our 4th episode of Season 11, here are a few FAR Facts for us to think about: Agencies are required to perform market research and acquisition planning for ALL FAR 7.102(a).
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