Public Procurement Intl

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Photo credit: South African Tourism Colloquium Participants South Africa’s National Research Foundatio n (NRF) (which coordinates with the nation’s research institutions) hosted a weeklong conference, September 3-6, 2024, to discuss South Africa’s Public Procurement Act , Act No. 28 of 2024. The new Act was issued in July 2024 and now must be implemented through regulations to be issued by South Africa’s Ministry of the Treasury.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Because of the urgent need for decarbonization and reducing climate change, local government fleet managers are facing several major trends. One of these is the shift from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles (EVs), says Sam Pournazeri , senior director of Clean Transportation & Energy at ICF , a global consulting and technology services company with approximately 9,000 employees that helps organizations, including public- and private-sector clients, solve their complex challenge

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

An agency’s cybersecurity is only as airtight as that of its closest industry partners. That’s the thinking behind a lengthy compliance standard the Department of Defense introduced four years ago to ensure that data and meaningful information weren’t slipping into the hands of adversaries. Now, the Pentagon is preparing its second version of the document known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0, or CMMC 2.0, which differs from the original in many ways.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Jason Adolf, vice president of global public sector vertical at Appian, said federal agencies that seek to accelerate their modernization efforts should establish a center of excellence focused on advancing the adoption of low-code platforms, which could enable non-technical personnel to develop and refine applications.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On Sep. 19, the foremost U.S. intelligence leaders, decision makers and experts will be at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Intel Summit to share their expertise and shed light on the future of the intelligence landscape.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Randy DeCoutere has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer at General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, according to his LinkedIn post shared Wednesday. The long-time financial executive has been involved with General Dynamics for more than 20 years.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman was barred Friday from hearing cases for at least another year due to her refusal to participate in an investigation into her health, with the appeals court's other judges deciding unanimously to extend a suspension that began last year.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Broadcom has secured a new Department of the Navy enterprise software agreement blanket purchase agreement to make the VMware software portfolio readily accessible through Carahsoft Technology’s General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contract. Carahsoft said Thursday the new contract will streamline access to the VMware Cloud Foundation and other software offerings from VMware, which Broadcom recently acquired.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s Friday and it’s time for our week in review. We hope you had a wonderful Labor Day and were able to enjoy some time with friends and family. Now it is time to transition into fall and football season which we are very excited about here at SmallGovCon! We hope you have a great weekend. This week in federal government contracting news saw some interesting storis about IT and cyber security, the feds avoiding fraud payments, and a potential boost for WOSB contracts.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The U.S. Special Forces Command’s small business innovation research program is unique compared to other similar efforts around government. Congress gave SOCOM a special authority in 2021 to do business-to-business transitions through the SOFWERX organization. Lisa Sanders, the director of science and technology for Special Operations Forces in the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics office for the Special Operations Command in the Defense Department, said the command is cutting down the time

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, received his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent meeting. Garrettson founded the annual Wash100 Award to commemorate the notable executives transforming the government contracting field.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Agencies need to increase their use of metrics and feedback to improve customer experience as they begin to develop and implement CX strategies. The Food and Drug Administration gave the public and industry through July to comment on its Customer Experience Strategy for boosting satisfaction with its IT solutions by upping their accessibility, streamlining processes, easing adoption, and emphasizing engagement and feedback.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Jacobs (NYSE: J) has won a potential $973.7 million contract from NASA to provide research operations, maintenance and engineering support services for the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. NASA said Thursday the Center, Operations Maintenance and Engineering II program is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a phase-in period that will kick off Oct.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is looking into potential vendors that can meet the requirements of a contract vehicle it is currently developing in support of Advana, an enterprise data, analytics and AI platform being used across the DOD. According to a sources sought notice posted Wednesday on SAM.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Astrion, a portfolio company of private equity firm Brightstar Capital Partners, has finalized its purchase of Axient in a transaction that expands its capabilities aimed at helping defense and civilian agencies address critical challenges across systems engineering, digital, mission support and cybersecurity areas.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Illumio Government Cloud has received moderate-status authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Thursday the authorization, sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, allows it to offer zero trust segmentation services to federal agencies.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Iron Bow Technologies has secured a potential five-year, $862.8 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs for architecture and application development in support of its connected care technologies. According to a Federal Procurement Data System notice, the contract has a base value of $83.2 million and an estimated completion date of Dept. 6, 2029.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

General Dynamics’ information technology business and Gitlab have entered into a two-year partnership deal to boost the security and speed of software deployment as agencies modernize and move to the cloud.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Kevin Seeley, former vice president of strategic programs for military health at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has transitioned to the role of VP of Department of Veterans Affairs business area at the subsidiary. He made the announcement via LinkedIn post Friday.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A group of women-owned businesses led by Intellect Solutions has landed a $35 million contract from the Defense Health Agency to support the Uniform Business Office and Data Quality Management Control program.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The U.S. Navy has awarded electronic, computer and mechanical engineering company J.F. Taylor Inc. a contract valued at $563.2 million for the continued design, development and integration of simulation systems.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Cubic Defense announced that its DTECH Fusion Edge High-Performance Compute has been certified for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and Red Hat OpenShift. The California-based defense and transportation technology provider said on Thursday that the milestone enables customers to run artificial intelligence-powered applications at the tactical edge.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Empower AI has appointed to its board of directors Elaine Duke, former deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and once acting DHS secretary. The company said Tuesday Duke was also named an inaugural member and chairperson of the external advisory board of Empower AI.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

PlanetiQ and Spire Global Subsidiary have been awarded the fourth batch of delivery orders worth $10.37 million in total from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Radio Occultation Data Buy II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle. A $6.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC) recorded $1.82 billion in revenues, 2 percent organic growth and $1.2 billion in net bookings with a book-to-bill ratio of 0.6 during the second quarter of its fiscal year 2025.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

AFWERX has selected WillCo Tech to work on a project to manufacture an Automated Talent Management system for the Department of the Air Force, or DAF.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Peter Hochholdinger has been named executive vice president of manufacturing and safety at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, a business of Boeing (NYSE: BA), the manufacturing executive announced via LinkedIn post Thursday. Prior to joining Boeing, Hochholdinger held the manufacturing and supply chain VP position at Relativity Space, an aerospace manufacturing company known for its reusable rockets.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On August 8, 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced a $6.3 million False Claims Act settlement with West Coast Dental Administrative Services LLC (formerly West Coast Dental Services Inc.) and its founders and former owners due to seven improper second-draw Paycheck Protection Program loans received by West Coast Dental and affiliated dental offices.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This year’s 36th Annual ITA Workshop (held in Austin, Texas on June 19-21, 2024) did exactly what it said on the tin: It provided the audience with truly “Global Perspectives on Due Process in International Arbitration.” Co-chaired by Christian Leathley , Anne Véronique Schlaepfer , and Prof. Thomas J. Stipanowich , the ITA Annual Workshop looked at due process in international arbitration from various angles, transcending the boundaries of legal systems and legal cultures and covering both comm

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (Board) recently issued notable reminders to contractors regarding its jurisdictional authority and the importance of timely filing claims. The Board explained in DSME Construction Co., Ltd. , ASBCA 63878 (July 30, 2024), that it may retain jurisdiction over a dispute even when a different forum is listed in the contract.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The D.C. Circuit appeared open on Friday to reviving an energy company's lawsuit against Angola over $1.1 billion worth of nixed power plant contracts, as a three-judge panel considered during a hearing whether Aenergy SA could collect any potential damages in Angola.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

We’ve been named ‘Most Trusted Government Contracting Consulting Firm’ by The Enterprise World We are thrilled to announce that Select GCR has been named the Most Trusted Government Contracting Consulting Firm by The Enterprise World! This award recognizes our ability to help small and medium-sized businesses navigate government contracting with confidence.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The federal government urged the Federal Circuit to revisit a high-profile decision reviving an artificial intelligence company's protest over its exclusion from a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency procurement, saying the ruling wrongly expanded the Court of Federal Claims' bid protest jurisdiction.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 6, 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 – September 6th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

An insurance company has urged a Montana federal court to temporarily block a group of construction companies from transferring assets, alleging they owe more than $2.6 million in payments, claims and attorney fees related to projects in Montana and Wyoming.

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