Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

When the pandemic began, the Philippines government suspended all public transport. With only 6% of Filipinos owning private cars, the decision affected many – including doctors and nurses on the frontline fighting the virus. “There were healthcare workers who needed to walk for around three to four hours to get where they needed to go,” says Kenneth Isaiah Ibasco Abante, President of WeSolve Foundation , a youth-led coalition accelerator for systemic change in the Philippines.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In today’s digital world, staying at the forefront of cybersecurity practices is critical for national security. Continuous increases in both the number and variety of cyberattacks now characterize this domain, and the U.S. government has taken many steps to keep pace with this constantly transforming environment.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot is an important but limited step in getting agencies to start planning to integrate AI technology into their work, according to an NVIDIA spokesperson. Led by the U.S. National Science Foundation in partnership with 10 other agencies and 25 companies, the two-year pilot devotes a shared research infrastructure for responsible AI discovery and innovation.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

Kevin Kelly , chairman and CEO of defense services provider Arcfield , has been deemed as one of the 100 most outstanding leaders in the government contracting sector in 2024 by Executive Mosaic. As one of the 42 first-time inductees into the Wash100 league, he is credited for his role in the company's recent milestones including the acquisition of Strategic Technology Consulting and Orion Space Solutions.

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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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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology division will help U.S. Central Command modernize its enterprise IT infrastructure under a potential six-year, $922 million contract.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 1, 2024

The Army Corps of Engineers is trying to "muddy the water" to fend off a challenge to a nationwide permit opening ocean waters to aquaculture operations, failing to justify why the permit shouldn't be scrapped, the Quinault Indian Nation and nonprofit allies have told a Washington federal judge.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 1, 2024

A Massachusetts federal judge has released Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and most other defendants from a proposed class suit by a group of migrants who claim they were duped into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Carey Smith is the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Parsons Corporation. She oversees the company’s strategic direction, growth, and business operations focused on technological innovation. Ms. Carey leads approximately 16,000 employees based in 29 countries. In 2024, Carey Smith was honored with her sixth Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 1, 2024

Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 1, 2024

On March 19, the Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Office posted a Notice of Covered Action (NCA) for a case against an unregistered Florida commodity pool operator. The NCA signals that the CFTC is now accepting whistleblower award claims for the case. On March 15, the CFTC announced a consent order for a permanent injunction, restitution, and civil monetary penalty against Empires Consulting Corp. totaling over $64 million for offering fraudulent commodity pools under th

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Government is under pressure to update its legacy technology systems. “Modernization is crucial for agencies to stay agile, secure, and responsive to evolving needs,” said Francisco Ramirez, Chief Architect of State and Local Government at Red Hat. “Agencies need to transform their legacy systems, leveraging contemporary technologies and methodologies.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential seven-year, $494 million recompete contract to provide safety and mission assurance support services at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract III covers safety, reliability, engineering and quality and software assurance support for NASA programs in deep space, including the Gateway lunar space station, Orion spacecraft and Ext

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

“Time together really does matter – bringing the team together to work, even if it’s just for a few days, builds a social connection and is a real accelerator for their work.” – Brian Elliott, Executive Advisor and Co-Founder of Future Forum. In this session of “Management Minutes With Mika,” Workplace Transformation Strategist Mika Cross invited Elliott to explain what agencies should pay attention to when it comes to creating meaningful in-person work.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

General Atomics ' aeronautical systems business will provide technical services for the U.S. Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle aircraft under a $561.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The Department of Defense said Thursday that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will perform contract work through March 28, 2029.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Executive Mosaic is honored to announce the selection of Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro as a winner of the Wash100 Award for 2024. The Popular Vote Competition of the 2024 Wash100 Award runs through April 30, 2024. Click here to vote for Carlos Del Toro as one of your favorite GovCon industry leaders!

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FedScoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Robert Groat is the executive vice president of Strategy and Technology for SMX. He brings to his position more than 30 years of experience and strategy consulting skills in designing, developing, and delivering market-leading products and services, especially in the financial services, healthcare, federal, and Department of Defense sectors. Imagine a government agency that operates lightning fast, anticipating citizen needs before they arise, and where automated processes handle tedious tasks,

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have won positions on a potential five-year, $3.05 billion contract to provide medium caliber training cartridges for the U.S. Army.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

Peraton has opened a new office in San Antonio, Texas , as part of its efforts to expand its presence in the state's technology community and strengthen collaboration with federal agencies, academia and local industry partners. "Peraton is thrilled to be a member of the San Antonio tech community where we can bring our experience as a mission capability integrator and long-time mission partner to further support the U.S.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Zapata AI, an industrial generative artificial intelligence software company, is set to begin trading on Monday, April 1, on Nasdaq after it completed its merger with special purpose acquisition company Andretti Acquisition (NYSE: WNNR).

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

The U.S. Marine Corps demonstrated two uncrewed low-profile vessel prototypes , designed by Leidos , during Project Convergence Capstone 4, a joint and multinational military exercise hosted by the U.S. Army. Leidos said Friday the LPV prototypes were delivered to the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in 2023 for testing and technical assessment and their participation in the exercise marks the next stage of experimentation for the autonomous-capable vessels.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has promoted company veterans Cutter Brenton and Christopher Meyer to vice president roles focused on advancing technological capabilities for the defense sector.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

Orca Security ’s agentless cloud security offering will be promoted to the public sector under a partnership agreement with Carahsoft Technology. Carahsoft said Thursday the Orca Cloud Security Platform delivers comprehensive insights into an organization's cloud risk and compliance within 24 hours and eliminates blind spots and performance issues associated with agent-based services.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Eight companies have secured a $750 million ceiling increase modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to continue providing advisory and assistance services to help the service branch’s deputy leadership manage and improve enterprise-level strategic transformation initiatives. The modification brings the total value of the Air Force Strategic Transformation Support indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract to $2.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

According to Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Viasat , the commercial satellite communications industry views the inclusion of a $134 million line item for commercial satcom integration within the proposed fiscal year 2025 Pentagon budget as a positive development. "We're hopeful this means DoD is getting more serious about leveraging commercial capabilities," Viasat's senior vice president for government strategy and policy told SpaceNews in a recent interview.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Alex Burkart, most recently vice president of cyber solutions and strategic information technology operating group at Koniag Government Services, has assumed the role of operating group president for information solutions and security at KGS. He announced his promotion at the Chantilly, Virginia-based federal tech services contractor in a LinkedIn post published Sunday.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

Immersive training services provider HTX Labs has added Craig Wills , former 19th Air Force commander, to its advisory board. In a statement Thursday, Chris Verret, president and chief technology officer at HTX Labs, said, “We’re excited to officially bring Craig onto our board as we expand our immersive training capability more broadly across the Air Force and the other services.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed 0.41% higher to $4,963.08 to end the shortened week and March in the positive zone. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, also outperformed Wall Street’s major stock indexes for the week with a 1.69% gain. Despite Thursday’s subdued session, the S&P 500 rose 0.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

Chenega ’s security strategic business unit has acquired E&M International for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to broaden its capacity to deliver critical fire and emergency services and capabilities to existing and future customers. Albuquerque, New Mexico-based EMI is focused on providing fire alarm systems, mass notification, emergency communications and clean agent fire suppression technologies, Chenega said in a press release received by Executive Mosaic on Monday.

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Holland & Knight: Government Contracts

APRIL 1, 2024

As commercial real estate markets undergo their most dramatic shift in decades, government agencies are reassessing their space needs and seeking to downsize and reduce their footprints.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 1, 2024

End User License Agreements, Whistleblower Incentives, GHG Disclosures This week’s episode covers a Federal Circuit decision holding that an end user license agreement incorporated into another contractor’s agreement was sufficient to establish jurisdiction under the Contract Disputes Act, a new DOJ pilot program to incentivize whistleblowers to report corporate misconduct by offering monetary rewards, and a DOD Class Deviation prohibiting DoD from requiring certain defense contractors to disclo

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

As part of the 2024 Paris Arbitration Week (“PAW”), Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP hosted a webinar on “Amplifying the Voices of Developing States in ISDS Reform.” This was the third installment in the “Affaires d’Etats” series on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (“ISDS”) initiated by Curtis during 2022 PAW. As the criticisms of ISDS intensify, this year’s panel focused on the importance and means of amplifying the voices of developing States in ongoing reform efforts at the multi

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Government Contracts

APRIL 1, 2024

Cybersecurity experts from dozens of private companies decried the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against SolarWinds and its cybersecurity head, arguing the unprecedented effort to hold the pair accountable for a 2020 cyberattack could undermine U.S. national security.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) will be hosting the first Johannesburg Arbitration Week (JAW) at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 9 to 11 April 2024. Originally scheduled for March 2020, the event was, of necessity, postponed when COVID-19 swept away all before it. With that aberration now consigned to history, the time is ripe for JAW to proceed.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 1, 2024

Accenture Federal Services is partnering with Microsoft to launch an end-to-end Cloud Modernization and Migration Factory on Microsoft Azure Government. This will meet the stringent security standards required for those operating in the national security space, including the Special Access Program community. “For federal agencies, and our Defense Industrial Base and aerospace clients, connecting to [.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

South Africa’s evolution into the premier destination for international arbitration in the Southern African Development Community (“ SADC “) region exemplifies its commitment to legal modernity, accessibility, and the highest international standards. South African legal jurisprudence has come to enjoy significant influence in an increasingly globalised world where political, economic, social, and legal activities transcend territorial borders.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 1, 2024

A Colorado federal judge has dismissed without prejudice a shareholder suit against software and analytics company Palantir Technologies, criticizing the redundancy and excessive length of the complaint, and chastising the plaintiffs for seemingly expecting him to sift through alleged fraudulent statements for them.

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