ExecutiveBiz
MAY 2, 2024
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has secured a $493.2 million contract to provide space systems engineering services to the U.S. Space Force. Johns Hopkins APL will perform technical support tasks, systems engineering and specialized research and development under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
Redstone Government Consulting
MAY 2, 2024
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Defense Pricing and Contracting (DPC) issued a guidance memorandum dated March 18, 2024 to Agencies based on the results of the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (IG) Audit of DoD Compliance on Whistleblower Protection Requirements. While the DoD IG found in most cases, that Contracting Officers included the DFARS 252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights clause in contracts, they did not verify whether contract
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ExecutiveBiz
MAY 2, 2024
V2X has won an $88 million U.S. Navy contract to operate and maintain communication, electronic and computer systems. Work under the contract will support the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific, a key Navy communications facility in the region, V2X announced from McLean, Virginia on Thursday.
FedScoop
MAY 2, 2024
The Government Accountability Office is concerned that NASA still hasn’t incorporated cybersecurity practices into required agency policies, particularly for its major spacecraft projects. Without these requirements, NASA could end up with “inconsistent implementation of cybersecurity controls,” the auditing agency warned in a new report sent to Congress.
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GovCon Wire
MAY 2, 2024
Carahsoft Technology has secured a potential $172.8 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Department of Navy with VMware by Broadcom products and services.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday largely left intact an Illinois federal judge's $6 million ruling that a home health care company broke federal kickback laws, refusing to reverse the lower court's liability finding but directing it to ensure its damages award was calculated correctly.
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Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit has revived a tribal-owned defense contractor's suit against another tribal-owned competitor and a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets, finding the competitor agreed to federal court jurisdiction when it participated in the bidding process for work on a missile detection system.
GovCon Wire
MAY 2, 2024
The Next Generation Air Dominance initiative is a major U.S. Air Force effort to create a sixth-generation “family of systems” that will supplant its current fleet of F-22 Raptor aircraft. Though many program specifics are still shrouded in secrecy, it is one of the service branch’s highest priorities.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
As the old marketing adage goes, consistency is key, but law firm style guides need consistency that contemplates variety when it comes to client alert formats, allowing attorneys to tailor alerts to best fit the audience and subject matter, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
GovCon Wire
MAY 2, 2024
The Defense Health Agency has awarded 11 companies positions under the unrestricted vendor pool of a potential 10-year, $43 billion follow-on contract to provide medical staffing support services for U.S. military health care facilities.
FedScoop
MAY 2, 2024
A bipartisan Senate bill released Wednesday would strengthen security measures around artificial intelligence, overhauling a series of actions including cyber vulnerability tracking and a public database for AI incident reports. The Secure AI Act of 2024, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to update the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to update
SmallGovCon
MAY 2, 2024
It’s that time of year again! The time of year that all federal government contractors wait for with bated breath to see how well agencies performed in relation to their small business subcontracting goals (or at least how well the metrics show them to be doing). Time for the SBA’s Annual Scorecard. Ok, so maybe it’s not quite that hyped up. But it is informative, nonetheless.
Whistleblower Network News
MAY 2, 2024
On April 25, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a $2.5 million whistleblower award to an individual who voluntarily disclosed original information which led to a successful enforcement action. Through the SEC Whistleblower Program , eligible whistleblowers are entitled to monetary awards of 10-30% of the funds collected in the action connected with their disclosure.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 2, 2024
The government is an attractive target for cybercriminals and nation-state actors employing Kerberoasting attacks due to agencies’ reliance on Microsoft’s Active Directory for user authentication and authorization. Those agencies also manage vast amounts of sensitive data while faced with challenges related to legacy systems, bureaucratic processes and budget constraints, so it can be difficult for them to maintain adequate cybersecurity defenses against identity-based attacks such as Kerberoast
FedScoop
MAY 2, 2024
Chemonics, an international development firm that has received billions in government contracts and has described USAID as its “primary client ,” suffered a hack that impacted its employees back in 2021. Three years later, neither the company nor the agency is commenting on what actually happened. According to a consumer data breach notice filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, the attack was described as an “external system breach” and “hacking” that impacted more than 6,000 people.
Art of Procurement
MAY 2, 2024
“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Scottish poet Robert Burns wasn’t thinking of 21st-century corporate business. The post Replacing Good Intentions with Good Outcomes at Whistl appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedScoop
MAY 2, 2024
Artificial intelligence researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators would compete for $1 million prizes awarded by the National Science Foundation under new legislation from three members of the Senate’s AI caucus. The AI Grand Challenges Act, introduced this week by Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., calls on the NSF director to create and administer a competition that incentivizes technologists to “harness AI to address specific and measurable challenges
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 2, 2024
Alice Fakir, a federal cybersecurity services partner at IBM, said the updated version of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework puts a focus on timeliness and reporting and managing supply chain risks and third-party risks, FedTech reported Wednesday.
Scottish Government Procurement
MAY 2, 2024
We have added two new case studies and a number of ‘how to’ videos to the Sustainable Procurement Tools website. These case studies outline the sustainable procurement approach taken with two significant procurements and the benefits that have been, and will be, achieved as a result: Case Study 1 The City of Edinburgh Council’s Hard Facilities Management contract covers approximately 700 council buildings including schools, care homes and offices.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 2, 2024
Consensus on where agencies should start their artificial intelligence journeys is shifting as federal officials continue to evaluate how the technology can work for them. Some agencies already use AI to fight fraud. Work with AI at the Department of Defense ranges from identifying cybersecurity threats to analyzing data from drones. Current AI use cases are “flattening” as the technology evolves, and increasingly, the ability to scrape data from documents and databases for analysis is table sta
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 2, 2024
Carahsoft Technology will distribute the quantum cybersecurity services of Australian company QuintessenceLabs to its government clients. The services provide quantum-resilient technical measures critical for a strong cyber defense, including quantum random number generation and key distribution as well as encryption key and policy management, Carahsoft said Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
MAY 2, 2024
BAE Systems has secured a $365 million contract from NASA to build an air quality monitoring instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite constellation.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 2, 2024
NASA has selected nine companies to conduct a total of 12 studies on the feasibility of using commercial services, such as payload delivery, payload hosting, communications relay and surface imaging, to support future science missions to Mars.
GovCon Wire
MAY 2, 2024
Former military service members Roy Kitchener and David Gaedecke have been appointed senior executive advisers at Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) global defense business.
Kluwer Arbitration
MAY 2, 2024
The Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA), in collaboration with the ITA Board of Reporters , is happy to inform you that the latest ITA Arbitration Report was published: a free email subscription service available at KluwerArbitration.com delivering timely reports on awards, cases, legislation and current developments from over 60 countries and 12 institutions.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
The subsidiary of a company that produces fuselages for Boeing's 737 jets sued on Wednesday to block the Texas attorney general's investigation into apparent manufacturing issues that have caused recent midair emergencies, saying the probe is unconstitutional and violates the company's right to be free from unreasonable searches.
Kluwer Arbitration
MAY 2, 2024
In Carmichael Rail Network Pty Ltd v BBC Chartering Carriers GmbH & Co KG [2024] HCA 4 (“ Carmichael v BBC ”), the High Court of Australia (“High Court”) upheld a stay of proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia (“Federal Court”) in favour of a London Maritime Arbitrators Association (“LMAA ” ) arbitration seated in London. This unanimous judgment of Australia’s highest court reflects the continuing confidence of the Australian judiciary in international arbitration.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
A subsidiary of restaurant food distributor Sysco Corp. will pay over $133,000 in back pay to resolve the U.S. Department of Labor's allegations that it discriminated against women by failing to hire qualified female applicants to fill open warehouse positions in Palmetto, Florida, the agency said Thursday.
GovSpend
MAY 2, 2024
As we celebrate National Small Business Week , it’s a perfect opportunity to recognize and honor the top small businesses that won federal contracts in Fiscal Year 2023. In FY’23, the federal government awarded more than $775B in contracts, with $171.5B awarded as small business contracts to 79,116 companies. Compared to the previous fiscal year , small business contract awards saw a notable increase of $16.7B in FY’23 but a small (< 2%) decrease in the number of companies.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council said Thursday it is planning to implement a ban on federal purchases of semiconductor products from U.S. adversaries, asking for feedback from contractors on how prescriptive the pending rule should be.
Art of Procurement
MAY 2, 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 – May 3rd, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
Hahn Air Lines agreed to pay $26.8 million to resolve a whistleblower's allegations that the German airline-ticketing company violated the False Claims Act by intentionally failing to remit to the U.S. government certain travel fees the company collected from U.S. commercial airline passengers.
Great Government Through Technology
MAY 2, 2024
Every year, the General Services Administration sends out the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Customer Survey and Industry Satisfaction Survey to our partners to gauge your experiences working with us. Many of you will receive a personalized link to complete one of the surveys in the coming weeks – it takes ten minutes to complete, and the intelligence we gather from your responses will be used to improve your experiences moving forward.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
A pharmaceutical company has doubled down on its bid to stop a former director from soliciting customers for a rival drugmaker, saying he's trying to twist words in his contract and make up excuses for allegedly stealing trade secrets following his termination.
GovLoop
MAY 2, 2024
AI is changing the way government does business. Through automation, predictive analytics and advanced data analysis, AI is set to enhance operations and service delivery, said Chris Steel, AI Practice Lead at AlphaSix, which provides data management platforms and tools for data analysis. “Its transformative potential in government operations is vast, ranging from predictive analytics in defense and law enforcement to automating benefits processing, and everything in between,” he said.
Government Contracts
MAY 2, 2024
A Virginia federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in a suit accusing military contractor CACI International of aiding and abetting torture at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq, after the jury deadlocked following extensive deliberations.
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