AWS Public Sector

MAY 30, 2024

Within the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Division of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis (DMEPA) plays a critical role. DMEPA reviews premarket and postmarket drug labeling to minimize the risk of medication errors. In partnership with FDA’s DMEPA team, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner ICF is developing a machine learning (ML) prototype known as the Computerized Labeling Assessment Tool (CLAT).

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

A Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) subsidiary has received a five-year, $480 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for the Maven Smart System prototype. The Department of Defense said Wednesday Palo Alto, California-headquartered Palantir USG is expected to complete contract work by May 28, 2029, at work locations yet to be determined.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Sierra7 and Booz Allen Hamilton have received a contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide professional support services for the Office of Healthcare Transformation’s legislative implementation team. The OHT legislative implementation team requires agile program management support services across several capability areas to support initiatives related to health care legislation, Sierra7 said Wednesday.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency said it is “on target” to establish a process to conduct organization-wide cybersecurity risk assessments within the next six months, putting a hard timeline on its long-awaited response to a watchdog report critical of the agency’s cyber posture. An agency spokesperson said in an email to FedScoop that the cyber risk assessment process — recommended to the EPA in a July 2019 Government Accountability Office report — is on track to be finished “by November 22.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Andrea Cruden, formerly a senior director at Northrop Grumman, has joined L3Harris Technologies as vice president of strategy and business development for space systems.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The benefits of 5G are far reaching, but using spectrum outside the continental United States, or OCONUS, presents a unique set of challenges for military forces.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

The IRS’s Direct File program is here to stay and will be expanded for the 2025 tax season, the agency announced Thursday. The decision to make Direct File a permanent program comes after a pilot this year that allowed taxpayers in 12 states to electronically file their federal returns directly with the agency at no cost. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement that taxpayers this filing season delivered a “clear message” to the agency in wanting “one no-cost option for filing electron

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

The Government Accountability Office publicly released a decision on Thursday in support of a company's protest of a $44.2 million Department of Agriculture task order for software support for conservation-related programs, concluding the order was not properly issued.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

The Interior Department this week awarded spots on its latest cloud hosting services contract to seven vendors, estimated to be worth up to $2 billion total over 10 years. The companies that landed awards under Interior’s Foundation Cloud Hosting Services II contract are Accenture Federal Services , IBM , CGI Federal , SAIC , Cognosante , Zivaro and Smartronix.

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Federal News Network

MAY 30, 2024

A rule going back several years lets Defense Department contracting officers treat stuff from so-called non-traditional vendors — known as NCDs — as commercial. Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. For why this matters , The Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Haynes & Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish.

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Art of Procurement

MAY 30, 2024

Supply chains are never far from news headlines, but when those headlines are reporting drug shortages, it is personal. 323. The post Symptoms of Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 14 companies spots on a potential $220 million multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for general supplies and services. The GS&S 2.0 contractors will provide support across the various levels of the military hierarchy until Nov.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 30, 2024

Dr. Mark Flugge Sustainability and Climate Change Lead, CGI Federal Dr. Mark Flugge leads CGI Federal’s Sustainability and Climate Change Practice, partnering with agencies to meet their sustainability requirements as detailed in Executive Order 14057 and the accompanying Federal Sustainability Plan. Flugge said achieving sustainability and addressing climate change is everyone’s responsibility.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Sixty eight percent of public sector organizations surveyed by researchers for the Veracode State of Software Security 2024 report were found to have applications that suffered from what the study dubbed as “security debt” — flaws that have not been fixed for more than a year.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential $738.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide a complete range of classified and unclassified information technology and telecommunications services within the National Capital Region.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Capgemini Government Solutions will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a project aimed at exploring the use of quantum computing in carbon capture as part of DARPA’s Advanced Research Concept initiative.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

A 68-year-old former paralegal who hopes to become a pro bono attorney has sued the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee and ubiquitous bar exam test-taking software vendor ExamSoft Worldwide Inc. for $2 million, claiming three software crashes stymied her ability to take a exam offered remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

David Bassett, a U.S. Army veteran with over three decades of service, has joined the advisory board of radio frequency and microwave technology provider Ironwave Technologies. Ironwave President and CEO Anthony Lisuzzo said in a statement Wednesday, “Not only is he a skilled technologist, but he brings a wealth of management talent to Ironwave.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

The recently published U.S. Department of Defense space strategy represents a recalibration in agency thinking, signaling that the integration of commercial space capabilities has become a necessity and offering guidance for removing structural, procedural and cultural barriers to commercial-sector collaboration, say Jeff Chiow and Skip Smith at Greenberg Traurig.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Rancher Government Solutions has joined a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-led program that calls on companies to bolster cybersecurity efforts.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

A California federal judge recused himself from the wrongful death lawsuit launched by the families of the U.S. Marines killed when a Bell-Boeing-made V-22 Osprey went down, a recent court filing shows.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 30, 2024

Nathan Smith Senior Vice President, Cadmus Group Nathan Smith and his team achieved significant milestones by aligning various business lines within Cadmus to amplify their impact on climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. With decades of experience, they’ve cultivated an interdisciplinary firm capable of tackling global climate challenges.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

An Oklahoma-based oil drilling company insisted Thursday that the D.C. federal court has jurisdiction to decide claims that the company's Venezuelan subsidiary was illegally expropriated without compensation as Venezuela's state-owned oil company looks to slip the long-running suit.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

BWX Technologies and the American Nuclear Society partnered to provide company employees with customized ANS Nuclear Ambassadors training, which ran from February to April. BWXT said Tuesday it is the first company to undergo the newly refreshed ANS curriculum designed to train experts in K-12 learning through two virtual sessions.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

The U.S. Department of Labor pressed a Texas federal court not to halt its final rule regulating prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon Act, saying that one of the provisions several construction groups are challenging is completely lawful.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

RTX business Collins Aerospace will invest $200 million to expand carbon brake production at its manufacturing facility in Spokane, Washington. The plan is to grow the site by more than 50 percent and add 70,000 square feet over a multi-year period, RTX said Tuesday.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manningat Blackbird.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific has released a draft solicitation for a small business set-aside contract to provide enterprise support and engineering services for Microsoft products and cloud services to defense and intelligence agencies. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 30, 2024

In April 2023, the Chief Justice of Pakistan directed the formation of an Arbitration Law Review Committee (“ALRC”) to carry out a review of arbitration laws in Pakistan and propose reforms. The ALRC, which was formed under the aegis of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan , was also directed to prepare legislation that would bring Pakistan’s domestic arbitration regime in line with international standards, and specifically, the UNCITRAL Model Law (“Model Law”).

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The State Department has approved two foreign military sale agreements worth $1.95 billion combined to provide UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment to the governments of Austria and Sweden. Austria asked to procure 12 UH-60M aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, and their associated components under a potential $1.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

A doctor and several healthcare businesses accused each other of withholding evidence in a Florida federal False Claims Act lawsuit, with the doctor saying several key Zoom meeting records were destroyed, although the businesses have alleged the doctor refused to provide a financial agreement she made with a cohort.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of government contracting’s highest honor, the Wash100 Award, hand-delivered the prize to first-time recipient Jane Rathbun in a recent meeting at the Department of Defense.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

The Federal Circuit on Thursday revived a coin processor's contention that the U.S. Mint breached a contract to pay for mutilated coins the agency redeemed, saying the U.S. Court of Federal Claims incorrectly concluded the processor failed to state a claim.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Mitchell Sutika-Sipus, a nearly two-decade technology industry leader, has joined AutogenAI as chief solutions architect. He will advance AutogenAI’s growth initiatives in the federal sector and help corporate clients secure more government contracts through the adoption of the company’s artificial intelligence platforms in the federal proposal writing process, the company said Wednesday.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 30, 2024

In WashingtonExec’s “Meet the Management Team” video series, we introduce some of the executives in GovCon, their roles and how they work together on a shared mission to achieve companywide goals. In this segment, WashingtonExec’s Amanda Ziadeh is joined by members of ASRC Federal’s leadership team: Jennifer Felix, President and CEO Shaveta Joshi, Chief Human [.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The U.S. Army is all-in on modernization. To pave a path for continued mission success, the service branch developed its Army of 2030 concept, a massive effort that aims to revitalize the force and build up new capabilities to solidify an advantage on today’s battlefield.

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