FedInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thursday, January 25, 2024 | 12:00PM – 5:00PM EST | 3 CPE | Washington DC Cybersecurity has always contended with evolving threats. As the internet has become more embedded into social and economic life and smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices become ubiquitous, bad actors have devised new attacks to capitalize on new vulnerabilities. And just as agencies are implementing zero trust architecture to help with this wave, other IT developments are threatening to upend cybersecurity even

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Executive Mosaic , the preeminent media, events and membership organization of the government contracting sector, is proud to announce the winners of the prestigious 2024 Wash100 Award. Each year, Executive Mosaic’s coveted Wash100 Award recognizes the most promising and outstanding executives to watch in the coming year. Read below for the full list of winners.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 24, 2024

An RTX business has booked a $154 million U.S. Army contract to provide Commander’s Independent Viewer systems. Raytheon’s delivery of these electro-optical/infrared sight systems is intended to elevate the service branch’s Bradley Fighting Vehicles, RTX announced from McKinney, Texas on Wednesday.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Enlightenment Capital has merged four businesses to form and launch RealmOne, a new platform company focused on providing cybersecurity and intelligence collection and analysis support for national security agency customers. Columbia, Maryland-based RealmOne is led by CEO Gary Daigle, former chief executive of iNovex.

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

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,

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 24, 2024

On January 24, the Vatican issued new procedures on whistleblowing , recognizing the critical role whistleblowers play in exposing corruption and financial misconduct. The new document expands upon procedures first laid out in 2019 for reporting financial anomalies to the Office of the Auditor General. Vatican News, the official news portal of the Vatican Holy See, notes that whistleblowing “is one of the most effective tools for combating corruption, provided for, among other things, by the Uni

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Henry Choi’s long career is not short on qualifications. He is currently vice president of growth and strategy for HII's cyber, electronic warfare and space segment, where his work focuses on market growth, strategy and client engagement.In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, Choi spoke with GovCon Wire about how he and his team are envisioning concepts and technologies like artificial intelligence and open-source intelligence’s importance in the global defense arena, among other topics

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

To counter rising cyber-physical risks and geopolitical tensions, the U.S. government is proactively strengthening its tactical edge, ensuring critical infrastructure resilience and digital capabilities across remote locations. Join the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads at the Tactical Edge Forum on Feb. 8 to learn more about how U.S. military leaders, government officials and industry executives are working together to deliver operational excellence and power to the tactical edge.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Seventh Circuit questioned Wednesday whether cracked welds in a Chicago O'Hare International Airport canopy damaged the larger structure in a way that would trigger property damage coverage, after a lower court ruled that the canopy's general contractor wasn't covered for over $37.5 million in costs.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Saalex, a Camarillo, California-based federal services contractor, has acquired Spalding Consulting for approximately $75 million as part of efforts to expand its information technology, engineering and software development capabilities in the aerospace and defense market.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Technology Modernization Fund announced several new investments Wednesday intended to enhance digital services and cybersecurity for the public. The TMF’s targeted investments were awarded to the Department of Justice to improve antitrust enforcement through technology; the General Services Administration for the modernization of regulatory services; and the Armed Forces Retirement Home for upgraded digitization of electronic health record systems.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

To counter rising cyber-physical risks and geopolitical tensions, the U.S. government is proactively strengthening its tactical edge, ensuring critical infrastructure resilience and digital capabilities across remote locations. Join the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads at the Tactical Edge Forum on Feb. 8 to learn more about how U.S. military leaders, government officials and industry executives are working together to deliver operational excellence and power to the tactical edge.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

While practicing law and competing in long-distance triathlons can make work and life feel unbalanced at times, participating in the sport has revealed important lessons about versatility, self-care and perseverance that apply to the office as much as they do the racecourse, says Laura Heusel at Butler Snow.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The General Services Administration continues to test optimal workplace IT setups, in part to make the office more inviting as the White House demands federal employees reduce the amount of time they work remotely. GSA’s Workplace Innovation Lab (WIL) also aims to achieve hybrid work equity so employees participating in meetings remotely feel more included.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2024

When new technology emerges, organizations naturally want to hire people who have the skills to work with it. But AI is a bit of a mystery in that regard; we’re still learning about its capabilities and what we can teach it to do. AI experts may be few and far between. The October 2023 Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence recognized both the dangers and the potential of AI for workers.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a pair of task orders worth $908 million combined from the U.S. Army for network modernization services and support of the service branch's operational intelligence platform. The company will provide network modernization and sustainment technology to help modernize enterprise information technology infrastructure and facilities across the Pacific and Southwest Asia under a $526 million task order, and perform advanced software and full life cycle

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 24, 2024

BAE Systems has tested a counter-unmanned aircraft system prototype, developed in partnership with Moog, on an armored multi-purpose vehicle during a live fire demonstration at the Big Sandy range in Kingman, Arizona.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Steve Sousa, a senior vice president at CGI’s (NYSE: GIB) federal arm, said integrating artificial intelligence technologies provides federal health care agencies with opportunities to improve patient outcomes by harnessing the power of big data to enhance decision-making, streamlining administrative processes and revolutionizing diagnostics.Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club's 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 24, 2024

HashiCorp‘s software suite is now part of Carahsoft Technology‘s Distributor Seller of Record, a program that facilitates the availability of public sector software products in an Amazon Web Services digital catalog and various government contract vehicles.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has reported fourth-quarter revenue of $11.7 billion, a 7.5 percent increase over the same period a year ago and disclosed quarterly net earnings of $1 billion and diluted earnings per share of $3.64. An earnings statement published Wednesday states that General Dynamics' aerospace segment obtained orders worth $3.2 billion during the quarter with a backlog of $20.5 billion, up 4.8 percent from prior-year figures.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2024

The world is changing around us so fast that it’s hard to keep pace. Like most other organizations, government agencies struggle to meet new challenges and directives. “Clearly, the answer is technology,” said Winston Chang, CTO at Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. “But it’s not the whole answer. The nuance is that the technology has to work in concert with the workforce.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

RTX (NYSE: RTX) saw its fiscal 2023 fourth-quarter sales rise 10 percent to $19.9 billion and recorded a total backlog of $196 billion at the end of the quarter with the defense segment accounting for $78 billion of that backlog.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

On August 9, 2023, DCAA issued guidance to its auditors revising the real-time labor and material testing requirements. DCAA historically referred to these procedures as Mandatory Annual Audit Requirements (MAARs) 6 and 13. DCAA states in its guidance what its auditors need to know is that “[l]abor and material are two of the most significant cost elements billed under government contracts.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

The U.S. Navy has awarded 15 companies positions on a potential five-year, $245.9 million contract to conduct research, develop, test and evaluate undersea weapons and undersea defensive technologies. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Newport, Rhode Island, launched an online procurement process and received 15 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 24, 2024

On 8 December 2023, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution and the New York City Bar Association hosted the first Africa Arbitration Day in New York. One of the event’s panels discussed the prospects of “Africanization” in light of the Investment Protocol (the “Investment Protocol”) of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (the “AfCFTA”) and the Africa Arbitration Academy’s Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (the “ Model BIT”).

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Arcfield secured contracts worth more than $1 billion combined from U.S. government customers during the last two quarters of fiscal year 2023 to support classified systems engineering , technical and integration work.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court debated whether a World War II-era doctrine encouraging courts to strongly consider agency statutory interpretations could replace the court's controversial so-called Chevron doctrine that requires judges to defer to those interpretations if a statute is ambiguous.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Bill Protzman , previously executive vice president and head of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps sector at DCS , stepped up as the company's president and chief operating officer. H e succeeded Larry Egbert and will be responsible for executing customer initiatives and meeting strategic growth targets.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday ruled that the Defense Contract Management Agency can pursue a $1.1 million claim against a Navy contractor for overpayments made under a cost-reimbursement contract, rejecting the contractor's argument that the DCMA's claim was untimely.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General revealed in an audit that the Pentagon had an incomplete list of its financial management systems and inadequate plans for system compliance and recommended for DOD to identify the financial management systems it will have when it becomes compliant with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New York federal judge it believes clients from more than a dozen law firms may have discoverable information in the regulator's ongoing suit against software provider SolarWinds Corp. and that five banks and financial firms may also have relevant information.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) reported its fourth quarter and full year 2023 results. The full-year net sales were stronger than expected, rising two percent year-over-year to $67.6 billion, although it dipped half a percent lower in Q4 2023 to $18.9 billion versus Q4 2022. Also, the backlog reached a record $1.6 billion.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

A New York state judge handed Smartmatic and Fox News a win each in separate rulings Wednesday in a $2.7 billion defamation suit, holding the voting company must face counterclaims that the suit chills free speech but refused to toss Smartmatic's allegations that Fox Corp. exercised control over allegedly harmful news coverage during the 2020 election.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

To counter rising cyber-physical risks and geopolitical tensions, the U.S. government is proactively strengthening its tactical edge, ensuring critical infrastructure resilience and digital capabilities across remote locations. Join the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads at the Tactical Edge Forum on Feb. 8 to learn more about how U.S. military leaders, government officials and industry executives are working together to deliver operational excellence and power to the tactical edge.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

U.S. General Services Administration personnel gave a contracting officer "egregiously flawed information" so they would approve buying dozens of Chinese videoconference cameras, despite a federal law barring federal agencies from sourcing products from China, the agency's inspector general has reported.

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WashngtonExec

JANUARY 24, 2024

In this episode of “Humble Beginnings,” we sit down with Sev1Tech CEO Robert (Bob) E. Lohfeld Jr., as he shares tidbits about his upbringing in Maryland, the influence his grandmother had on his life and his foundational interest in all things international. Lohfeld talks about the impact transferring from a big university to a private [.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

A New Hampshire security training company has survived two protests that challenged its win of a $188.9 million U.S. Army task order for linguist services after the U.S. Government Accountability Office rejected the protesters' contention that the Army glossed over their strengths.

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