FedScoop
APRIL 15, 2024
Back in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had stopped using commercial telemetry data that government agencies buy from private companies. That practice has been frequently criticized by civil rights groups that argue that by purchasing the phone location data from third parties, the government is essentially side-stepping the Fourth Amendment and violating peoples’ privacy.
Federal News Network
APRIL 15, 2024
U.S. Cyber Command is aiming to expand its acquisition team and rely on flexible buying strategies as CYBERCOM becomes a focal point of cyber procurement in the Defense Department. The command was initially granted limited acquisition authority in fiscal 2016, with 10 billets and $75 million in buying authority over five years. Congress has since lifted the command’s spending limitations and restrictions.
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AWS Public Sector
APRIL 15, 2024
Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations. These processes rely heavily on domain-specific data ingestion and processing for batch and continuous data sources.
FedScoop
APRIL 15, 2024
Few organizations in the world do more to turn biomedical and behavioral research into better health than the National Institutes of Health, its 27 institutes and centers and more than 18,000 employees. One of those institutes is the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Considered the NIH’s data hub, NLM’s 200-plus databases and systems serve billions of user sessions every day.
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GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Jon Rosenwasser, former budget and policy director at the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, has joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to serve as chief financial officer.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 15, 2024
Leading up to Tax Day on April 15, whistleblower advocates and a member of Congress spoke about the importance of whistleblowers in effective tax enforcement. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Program offers monetary awards and anti-retaliation protections to individuals reporting large scale tax fraud. On April 10, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) spoke at a Senate Budget Committee hearing “Sunny Places for Shady People: Offshore Tax Evasion by the Wealthy and Corporations.
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SmallGovCon
APRIL 15, 2024
The Rule of Two is the federal contracting rule requiring agencies to set aside a solicitation for competition only between small businesses when there are at least two small businesses that could do the work for a fair price. But that rule does have some exceptions. These exceptions can make it difficult to know the situations that would justify filing a Rule of Two protest.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
As a program manager and engineer in the U.S. Air Force, Rocky Thurston gained the skills he needed to transition smoothly into government contracting.
FedScoop
APRIL 15, 2024
The public sector’s IT modernization journey into the cloud is taking a new and revolutionary turn as agency leaders grapple with how to harness AI’s power to help them securely manage the volume and velocity of their workloads. One challenge that remains at the forefront of those efforts is ensuring that today’s increasingly dynamic and distributed IT environments continue to meet the government’s complex security, regulatory and data privacy compliance rules — while learning how best to
Scottish Government Procurement
APRIL 15, 2024
We have published the Annual report on procurement activity in Scotland 2021-2022. This report covers the procurement activity of the Scottish Government during 2021 to 2022. The report highlights how we performed against our Procurement Strategy and how we delivered procurement policy and capability throughout the Scottish public sector. This period of time brought new challenges, yet this report demonstrates how we continued to use the #PowerOfProcurement to buy better and best serve the peopl
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has begun seeking information on a potential $100 million single-award contract to provide information technology and engineering support services to the 502d Trainer Development Squadron.
GovLoop
APRIL 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) relies on vast quantities of data to generate accurate outcomes — and that’s an obstacle for many public-sector agencies interested in AI technology. It’s not only that data grows exponentially, it’s that society produces more and more types to collect and analyze, said Rich Barlowe , Principal Technologist with Pure Storage, a company that stores, manages and protects data.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has booked a $111.9 million undefinitized firm-fixed-price order from the U.S. Navy to manufacture and deliver avionics long lead time parts and spares in support of the F/A-18E/F Block III and E/A-18G aircraft.
FedTech Magazine
APRIL 15, 2024
Federal agencies rely on mobile devices for increased productivity and effective workflows. To ensure a seamless user experience, however, it is crucial to optimize mobile device connectivity. Fortunately, there are mechanisms in place to help control and enhance the user experience. Through infrastructure assessment, employee education and a few simple best practices, an agency can log some quick wins in mobile connectivity.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Carahsoft Technology has secured a spot on a potential five-year, $261.2 million blanket purchase agreement under the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule contract to provide risk management software from Forescout to the Department of Defense and U.S. Coast Guard.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Aerospace and defense company Mercury Systems has received a $31 million contract from L3Harris Technologies to support the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer. Mercury said Wednesday that under the contract, it will provide solid-state data recorders for the T2TL satellites that L3Harris had been tasked to develop for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville has begun seeking proposals for a potential 10-year, $3 billion multiple-award task order contract to provide energy and water conservation services at federal facilities. A notice posted Friday on SAM.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Intelsat CEO and Wash100 awardee David Wajsgras said in an interview that customers are already interested in buying capacity from the medium Earth orbit constellation that the satellite services provider intends to build. One of those potential customers is the U.S. government, which seeks to ensure global communications redundancy for civilian as well as military users via an additional network.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Leidos Chief Growth Officer Gerry Fasano recently accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Vote for Fasano as your favorite Wash100 Award winner at Wash100.com! The Wash100 popular vote competition runs until April 30, and the winner will be announced in May.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
U.S. defense technology company Anduril Industries has entered into a strategic partnership with South Korean commercial and military shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. Anduril said Saturday that under the partnership, it will collaborate with HD Hyundai to develop new kinds of autonomous naval systems for use by the U.S., South Korea and their allies.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Sterling Jones, a two-decade industry veteran, was named vice president and general manager of Agile Development Group at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), according to a LinkedIn announcement. Jones previously served as general manager of military avionics at the Melbourne, Florida-headquartered defense contracting company.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Rich Guzzardi has joined Parsons as vice president of contracts for engineered systems, concluding a career spanning over two decades at RTX subsidiary Raytheon , where he most recently served as executive director of operations strategy development and capital. Guzzardi announced his transition to Parsons via LinkedIn.
Oxford College of Procurement and Supply
APRIL 15, 2024
If you have been following the monthly blogs you will now be aware of the different categories of procurement, the way KPIs can help manage performance as well as stakeholders and how we manage the four different categories. Across all these aspects of procurement we will find ourselves having to negotiate. Negotiation can take place at the beginning of the procurement cycle where the need for a purchase is established through to the last stage where the need is being reviewed.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch , senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Viasat , said the satellite communications industry is seeing an increased variety of tactics, techniques and procedures for deploying electronic warfare and electromagnetic interference. Speaking at the Space Symposium, Cowen-Hirsch said there is an increasing amount of targeted and intentional electromagnetic interference, signaling a need for intervention and information exchange to come up with a different appr
GovCon Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Robert Dyess, formerly a vice president at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed senior VP of business development for munitions and government at Day & Zimmermann, according to his LinkedIn post. Dyess will help drive growth and strategic partnerships to support the mission needs of D&Z’s U.S. defense and government customers.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Leidos has secured a six-year, $55.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide operations support services for the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center. The Department of Defense said Friday Leidos will offer logistics, maintenance, operations and program management assistance supporting Navy and Marine signature silencing programs for naval ships and undersea systems at the Southeast Alaska Measurement Facility.
Federal News Network
APRIL 15, 2024
The Army has seen enough from its testing of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework to know what its future looks like. And that future is around six pathways that moves the services away from a one-size-fits all approach to buying and managing technology. Margaret Boatner, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said these six pathways outlined in the Defense Department’s released in 2020 have shown enough promise to force the service to change its approach t
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Guidehouse has booked a $12 billion U.S. Air Force contract to provide systems engineering and integration services for an intercontinental ballistic missile program. Under this 18-year award, Guidehouse will service the Minuteman III – the USAF’s current land-based ICBM – and its replacement, the Sentinel, the Chicago, Illinois-based company said on Monday.
Redstone Government Consulting
APRIL 15, 2024
We understand that it can be tough to learn that your employees are planning to unionize, despite your efforts to create a fair and safe work environment. We know that you want to do your best for your employees and your company. While labor unions have been declining over the years, there is a resurgence of union organization as many believe that unions have been instrumental in establishing employee rights and conditions.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Bill Rubin , a nearly two-decade Northrop Grumman veteran, was named vice president of global supply chain at Booz Allen Hamilton. The executive was with Northrop for more than 19 years, joining the defense contractor in 2005 and most recently serving as senior director of global supply chain.
Kluwer Arbitration
APRIL 15, 2024
The global fight against climate change demands a swift transition to cleaner energy sources. Underscoring this urgency, the 28 th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (also known as the “Paris Agreement”) (“ COP 28 “), held in Dubai in November 2023, called for ambitious goals. At this conference, nearly 200 countries called for: tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency by 2030; accelerating efforts towards t
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
A Teledyne Technologies business will deliver recoverable and reusable loitering munition drone platforms to the U.S. Marine Corps under a potential $249 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Monday Teledyne FLIR Defense will support USMC's Organic Precision Fires-Light program , under which the contractor will provide the first 127 loitering munition systems for test and evaluation.
Government Contracts
APRIL 15, 2024
A California-based diagnostics firm and its CEO have been hit with a whistleblower suit in Washington federal court by an ex-lab director who claims an affiliated company flouted regulatory standards and fraudulently billed government healthcare programs for COVID-19 tests on patients with private insurance.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 15, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index fell by over 2% last week, bringing its number to $4,780.55. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that compiles and presents real-time data from 30 staple government contracting enterprises. With this information, users are able to evaluate not only the individual performance of these companies but also the overarching trends that characterize the GovCon marketplace today.
Government Contracts
APRIL 15, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that a Minnesota-based investment advisory firm will pay $60,000 to settle allegations it violated the commission's pay-to-play rule, which prohibits investment advisers from providing services to government-related clients for two years following a political campaign contribution.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 15, 2024
Leidos won a follow-on prime contract to provide the U.S. Army with technology-enabled services, including hardware sustainment, modernization, refresher training and logistics support. The Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity task order has a base period of 11 months, and a maximum value of $267 million if all four 1-year options are [.
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