FedTech Magazine
JUNE 5, 2024
Agencies’ cybersecurity budgets continue to increase to help them better prevent evolving threats to sensitive data and systems. Investing in stronger security measures and cyber hygiene training for employees makes sense, but mistakes — such as clicking on a suspicious link — are inevitable, and when they occur, attackers can breach federal systems.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
MetTel has received a contract from the U.S. Postal Service to retire around 35 million to 80 million plain old telephone lines or basic analog landlines across 17,000 USPS locations. Under the POTS transformation initiative, the global communications provider said Tuesday it will replace existing circuit-switched phone signals with networked multi-path internet protocol.
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GovCon Wire
JUNE 5, 2024
Jennifer Kauffman, most recently chief operating officer of CyberCore Technologies, will transition to the role of CEO after multinational information technology company HP (NYSE: HPQ) completed its acquisition of the Maryland-based secure supply chain management and cybersecurity services provider.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Organizations should strive to bolster the security of satellite ground stations, according to Xage Security Government President and General Manager Matthew Heideman.
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GovCon Wire
JUNE 5, 2024
Aaron Weis, managing director of technology at Google Public Sector, received his 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO and Wash100 Founder Jim Garrettson. The annual Wash100 Award shines a light on government contracting industry executives who have consistently exhibited top-notch leadership skills.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Jason Ballah, an executive with more than 25 years of experience in leading operations and business strategies supporting the Department of Defense and several companies, was appointed vice president of DOD programs at Electrosoft Services.
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FedScoop
JUNE 5, 2024
The Department of Energy’s national labs have an especially critical role to play in the advancement of artificial intelligence systems and research into the technology, a top federal official said Tuesday during a Joint Economic Committee hearing on AI and economic growth. Jennifer Gaudioso, director of the Sandia National Laboratory’s Center for Computing Research, emphasized during her testimony the role that DOE’s national labs could have in both accelerating computing capacity and helping s
GovCon Wire
JUNE 5, 2024
By Cameron Chehreh, vice president and general manager of public sector at Intel Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our daily lives, with far-reaching potential impacts on government and public services. With AI, mission teams can accelerate data analysis and make faster, more informed decisions from the front lines to city streets.
FedScoop
JUNE 5, 2024
The FBI’s approach to artificial intelligence ranges from figuring out how bad actors are harnessing the growing technology to adopting its own uses internally, officials said Tuesday, including through a “Shark Tank”-style model aimed at exploring ideas. Four FBI technology officials who spoke at a GDIT event in Washington detailed the agency’s focus on promoting AI innovations where those tools are merited — such as in its tip line — and ensuring uses could ultimately meet the law enforcement
AWS Public Sector
JUNE 5, 2024
The Natural History Museum in London. Introduction The twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are perhaps the single greatest challenge faced by science and society. The Earth is losing species at up to 1,000 times the natural rate, and by some estimates, 30–50 percent of all species may be lost by 2050. The world’s largest museums have worked together to look at how their data can be used to tackle these challenges.
FedTech Magazine
JUNE 5, 2024
Federal agencies have reported an average of about 30,000 cyber incidents annually for the past five years, according to data from the White House Office of Management and Budget. While that number is down from its height in 2015, when it topped more than 77,000, the potential for damage remains profound, and agencies now continuously update systems and cybersecurity measures in an attempt to achieve the most secure environments possible.
Government Contract Insights
JUNE 5, 2024
Bid protests of other transaction agreements, also known as “OTs” or “OTAs,” are a common topic for this blog.
Whistleblower Network News
JUNE 5, 2024
On May 7, the Malaysian government launched its 2024-2028 National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS), a continuation of its 2019 National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP) that ended in 2023. The new strategy is an omnibus of five primary strategies—Education, Public Accountability, Voice, Enforcement, and Incentives—with 60 sub-strategies aimed at cracking down on corruption across sectors and shoring up public trust in the government.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
The Potomac Officers Club has selected Bill Nystrom to moderate the “How Important is Network Security in a Zero Trust World?” panel discussion at the 2024 Cyber Summit on June 6, 2024.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 5, 2024
In February, the Department of the Air Force announced a massive reoptimization effort to prepare the Air Force and Space Force to navigate the increasingly complex landscape of great power competition.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
HawkEye 360, a space-based radio frequency data and analytics provider, has announced the grand opening of its new corporate headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. The company said Tuesday that the new 13,297-square-foot facility is situated on the same campus as its Advanced Technology Development Center.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 5, 2024
The U.S. Army has selected six contractors for a potential five-year, $180.6 million contract for applicant management services in support of military entrance processing stations.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
FDH Aero has integrated its BTC Electronic Components brand into its electronics division in a move aimed at streamlining the delivery of connectors, interconnect accessories and wire harness assemblies to the military and commercial aerospace industries.
Redstone Government Consulting
JUNE 5, 2024
CAS 404 provides the criteria for determining whether to assign the cost of a capital asset as a period expense when acquired or capitalize the item as a tangible asset and spread the cost over two or more accounting periods.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Carahsoft Technology and Yurts have forged an agreement allowing the former to distribute the latter’s generative artificial intelligence platform to the government sector. In a statement Tuesday, Michael Adams, sales director at Carahsoft, said, “Carahsoft is thrilled to partner with Yurts to bring its GenAI solutions to our Government customers through the support of our reseller network.
Kluwer Arbitration
JUNE 5, 2024
London International Dispute Week (“LIDW”) 2024 kicked off with more than 700 people attending events starting with a thought-provoking keynote speech by Jan Paulsson – President of the, Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (“SCCA”) Court – on the topic “ International Arbitration in the Year 2050: Shipwrecked or Basking on the Shores of the Promised Land?
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Leidos has completed conceptual design and system requirements reviews for the Mayhem program, marking another milestone in the development of an air-breathing hypersonic system for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 5, 2024
Cadmus and Riverside Technology, inc., won a multi-million dollar contract to support the National Centers for Environmental Information under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under the contract, Riverside will provide science and engagement support services to meet NCEI’s mandates in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
CRDF Global will serve as a subcontractor to Advanced Engineering Solutions & Services, supporting the latter’s work on a multiple-award contract to assist the Department of Defense and its partner nation agencies in countering national security threats worldwide. AES2 was one of the 18 awardees on the $960 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract the U.S.
Government Contracts
JUNE 5, 2024
PwC urged the California Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive a $2.5 million sanction against the city of Los Angeles for yearslong discovery misconduct in an underlying utility billing dispute, arguing the trial court's inherent authority to pose such penalties isn't limited to nonmonetary sanctions.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
NASA has on-ramped two additional space vehicles from Terran Orbital under the fourth iteration of the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition multiple vendor indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Tuesday its offerings under the Rapid IV On-Ramp III contract, which is worth a potential $6 billion over six years, now include the Nebula and Ambassador micro space vehicles.
Government Contracts
JUNE 5, 2024
A Georgia Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday backed the state's Department of Behavioral Health in a dispute over a fire-protection services contract with a county government, ruling the department couldn't be held liable for canceling the contract because it has no statutory power to enter into it.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Former Internal Revenue Service Chief Information Officer Nancy Sieger has joined Guidehouse’s public sector financial services practice as a partner and IRS account leader. In her new position, Sieger will leverage over three decades of experience in government roles to advise government clients on digital transformation and information technology modernization, Guidehouse announced from Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Public Contracting Institute
JUNE 5, 2024
Offerors are sometimes distressed when an agency selects a significantly higher priced, higher technically rated proposal in a best value determination. The rejected offeror may believe that the government has not properly conducted the best value determination, and request a quantification of the benefits in the higher rated proposal. The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) does not agree that quantification is required.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Josh Jackson has been chosen by the Potomac Officers Club as a moderator for the closing keynote fireside chat at the 2024 Army Summit. In his nearly 30-year career, he has actively contributed to the success of many crucial military missions.
Government Contracts
JUNE 5, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday declined to pause a long-pending False Claims Act and whistleblower retaliation case against medical device maker Medtronic so it can appeal a recent ruling, saying the court and the parties need to "get it moving.
FedInsider
JUNE 5, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 12:00PM – 5:00PM PDT | 3 CPE | Sacramento, CA California may be the home of Silicon Valley and the birthplace of many innovative technologies, but as the biggest state (by population) and the fifth-largest economy in the world ( more than 14% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product), it faces nation-sized challenges. The human issues include everything from making health care and insurance more affordable to investing in expanded internet access, to name just two.
Government Contracts
JUNE 5, 2024
The U.S. Small Business Administration issued a rule Wednesday effectively barring federal contractors from self-certifying as service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, or SDVOSBs, amid ongoing concerns about fraud in veteran-owned contracting programs.
FedInsider
JUNE 5, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 12:00PM – 5:00PM CDT | 3 CPE | Nashville, TN The State of Tennessee has been recognized in recent years for its use of data to drive decision-making and delivering services more effectively to its residents. To keep up the progress, the state’s Strategic Technology Solutions (STS) division of the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, has expanded its focus to include several large legacy modernization projects, such as the overhaul of its unempl
Government Contracts
JUNE 5, 2024
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a $147.5 billion spending bill along mostly party lines funding military construction and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which would block veterans' access to gender-affirming care and which the White House has already threatened to veto.
FedInsider
JUNE 5, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024 | 12:00PM – 5:00PM EDT | 3 CPE | Harrisburg, PA In January the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania unveiled its new Ten-Year Strategic Plan to foster economic growth. The plan targets five industries – agriculture, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, and robotics/technology – all of which will rely on investments to upgrade and innovate systems and technologies currently in place.
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