GovCon Wire
MAY 24, 2024
The ability to quickly exchange information is a determining factor of success on today’s battlefield, and achieving seamless connectivity requires a strong arsenal of network technologies. Advancing these capabilities has become a core part of the Department of Defense’s modernization strategy in recent years, and its FutureG Office is leading these efforts.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
Jennifer Dugan, a Washington, D.C.-based executive with over two decades of industry experience, was elevated to the role of vice president of operations at Tria Federal, where she most recently worked as director. She announced her promotion at the middle-market information technology and advisory services provider via LinkedIn post Thursday.
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USFCR
MAY 24, 2024
Education technology (EdTech) is at the forefront of innovation, with the government investing significantly in this sector. These investments create unparalleled opportunities for firms ready to enhance learning experiences. This guide will show you how your EdTech solutions can transform educational outcomes, fostering a brighter future for upcoming generations.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
RTX business Raytheon has received a potential five-year, $227.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide depot-level repairs, logistics and sustainment engineering support for AIM-9X and AIM-9X Block II missiles.
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Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,
USFCR
MAY 24, 2024
In times of crisis, timely and effective disaster relief services are essential. With natural disasters becoming more frequent and severe, the federal government is intensifying preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. This opens opportunities for businesses adept at navigating disaster relief. This guide highlights the crucial role of these services in federal contracting and how your business can become a key player in supporting government efforts to aid communities during their most vul
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
WorldWide Language Resources, a Fayetteville, North Carolina-headquartered provider of operational linguist services, has secured the second iteration of a contract from U.S. Special Operations Command for linguist support services. The Department of Defense said Thursday WorldWide will support SOCOM’s overseas contingency operations under the LSSII contract, which has a maximum value of $138.2 million.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
NASA transmitted data from space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California using a CACI International-built optical communications terminal on the Psyche spacecraft that was deployed as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment.
GovCon Wire
MAY 24, 2024
In honor of Memorial Day on Monday, May 27, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson has shared a heartfelt remembrance for his uncle Elmer Francis “Frank” Garrettson Jr., who served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
President Joe Biden secured confirmation of his 200th federal judge Wednesday and has transformed the judiciary by picking more women and people of color than any other president. But the upcoming election season could derail his hopes of confirming many more judges.
Whistleblower Network News
MAY 24, 2024
Whistleblower allegations and the passing of another whistleblower continue to swirl around Boeing. The passing of Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor fired in retaliation from Spirit AeroSystems after raising safety concerns about the 737 Max jet, on Tuesday, April 30, marks another tragic event in the ongoing Boeing saga. Dean’s family told NPR on May 2 that he died of a “sudden, fast-spreading infection” quickly after being diagnosed with an MRSA bacterial infection.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.
How to Crack a Nut
MAY 24, 2024
I am increasingly interested in the ways public procurement can contribute to slowing down public sector AI adoption. I think slowing down AI adoption is very important because we need time to develop a better understanding of the technology and its systemic implications, and to put much-needed effective safeguards in place. These are themes I explore in my recent book Digital Technologies and Public Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 24, 2024
With one of the most mobile civilian workforces in the federal government, the State Department reprovisions devices every time an employee transfers to a new post. The department’s 13,000 Foreign Service officers serve in 270 countries — including locations the department describes as “hardship posts” — and change duty stations every two or three years.
GovCon Wire
MAY 24, 2024
Fincantieri’s U.S. business arm has secured a $1.04 billion modification to a U.S. Navy contract to design and build the service branch’s fifth and sixth Constellation-class guided-missile frigates.
Whistleblower Network News
MAY 24, 2024
On April 29, a federal judge awarded $168,000 in attorneys fees and costs to a whistleblower who filed a qui tam lawsuit against a scientific instrument technology company alleging allegations of the Buy American Act (BAA). The whistleblower’s suit resulted in a $625,000 False Claims Act settlement between Instec Inc. and the U.S. Department of Justice in September of 2022.
FedInsider
MAY 24, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE There are plenty of benefits to innovative new technologies, from greater efficiency to cost savings to customer satisfaction. It is rare, however, for a new technology to truly replace existing IT – rather, it gets incorporated into or bolted onto current systems. This approach, along with the explosion of mobile devices and proliferation of software and SaaS applications, dramatically increases and clouds an Agency’s cyber footprint and atta
AWS Public Sector
MAY 24, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, US government customers face numerous challenges in modernizing the design, building, testing, and sustainment of the next generation of major weapon systems. Organizations have relied on a systems engineering approach to design complex systems. Platforms have evolved into tightly integrated systems of systems, which is driving organizations to transform their document-based systems engineering processes into digital engineering and model-base
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
VLogic Systems has received an authority to operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based facility management software and advanced internet of things-based technology offerings. The Massachusetts-based company said Wednesday the Department of Veterans Affairs-sponsored ATO designation positions it to be an approved provider for federal agencies on the FedRAMP Marketplace.
GovCon Wire
MAY 24, 2024
A report by financial services company Raymond James (NYSE: RJF) shows that there were 76 mergers and acquisitions in the defense and space industry during the first quarter of 2024, a 55 percent increase from the same period the previous year and a 31 percent rise from the previous quarter.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
Summit Technologies & Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $55 million contract from NASA to support the space agency’s Technology Transfer Program, an initiative aimed at ensuring that technologies developed for space exploration and discovery missions are widely available to the industry.
Kluwer Arbitration
MAY 24, 2024
On February 28, 2024, the arbitral tribunal in the arbitration between Red Eagle Exploration Limited (“Red Eagle”) and Colombia (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/13) issued an award under the Canada-Colombia FTA (2008)) (“FTA”). In this post, we discuss the background to this decision as well as the tribunal’s ruling regarding the merits (minimum standard of treatment and expropriation claims).
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
Charles Beames has been selected as executive chairman of the board of directors at TrustPoint, a company focused on transforming GPS technologies to support both public and private sector clients.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
A contract clause caps engineering firm HNTB Corp.'s potential liability over a long-delayed Seattle highway tunnel project, a Washington state court judge ruled Friday, likely dashing a joint venture's bid to recover more than $700 million.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Dantex‘s geospatial communication tools to the public sector through its reseller partners and federal procurement vehicles.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
The U.S. Navy must share with a construction contractor savings resulting from the contractor's changes to a design-build task order, after the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals ruled the Navy constructively accepted the contractor's proposal for the money-saving changes.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
MAY 24, 2024
There are a total of 908,209 small businesses in New Jersey, which make up 99.6% of all businesses in the state. Limited liability companies are often the entity of choice for New Jersey businesses. Properly structured, LLC’s provide the benefits of limited liability protection, operational flexibility and pass through taxation without the restrictions generally applied to other types of businesses.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims won't free the U.S. Navy from a $1.1 million breach-of-contract case from an engineering contractor, saying its handling of indirect and billing rates potentially amounted to a breach.
SmallGovCon
MAY 24, 2024
Memorial Day weekend is almost here, which means the unofficial start to summer! Whether you are hitting the road or relaxing at home, I hope you have an enjoyable long weekend while remembering those that have given their lives to protect our country. Of course, a relaxing weekend isn’t complete without some good reading material, and we’ve got you covered.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sent a letter to a New York federal judge Friday pushing back on SolarWinds Corp.'s accusations that it was overstating and distorting its case against the government contractor over a data hack, saying its complaint is "well-grounded in facts" uncovered during its investigation.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
Intelsat has signed an agreement with SpaceLogistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, to use the latter’s Mission Extension Vehicles to extend the life of its communication satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals ruled that the U.S. Navy must pay a Konecranes ABP unit roughly $4.9 million after the Navy wrongly refused to accept a proposed fix for problems discovered before delivery of a crane.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 24, 2024
Ironwave Technologies, a radio frequency and microwave technology provider, welcomed Scott Sanders, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, to its advisory board. In addition to his military background, Sanders brings extensive experience from the aerospace and defense industries to the Manassas, Virginia-based company, Ironwave said Thursday.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
The federal government properly considered the needs of fish protected under the Endangered Species Act when it approved water supply contracts for California's Central Valley Project, the Ninth Circuit said in a ruling rejecting environmental groups' claims to the contrary.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
MAY 24, 2024
This is session 3 of 4 in the Fundamentals of Cybersecurity and Regulatory Updates Series. Cara Wulf and Philip Lee identify how to ensure that good cybersecurity hygiene flows through a contractor’s supply chain. We will discuss the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) mandate to examine contractor compliance with cybersecurity requirements as part of its Contractor Purchasing System Reviews (CPSR) and its implications for contractors in the near future.
Government Contracts
MAY 24, 2024
The federal government has introduced several strategies over the last decade to help small businesses vie for procurement contracts, but overstretched acquisition staff may have limited capacity to deploy these strategies and reverse a downward trend in small business participation.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
MAY 24, 2024
This is session 4 of 4 in the Fundamentals of Cybersecurity and Regulatory Updates Series. Cara Wulf and Philip Lee help contractors navigate the Government’s current and future areas of focus in cybersecurity: managing breach and the use of artificial intelligence. They introduce some of the best practices to implement the cybersecurity requirements in Government contracts, and to assemble an incident response plan to manage breaches if and when they occur.
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