Federal News Network

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software development, the Army is going to stop worrying about the color of money. That’s because as part of its new approach to software modernization, the Army is rethinking what sustainment means. Margaret Boatner is the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said one of the main tenets of the policy signed by Army Secretary Christine Wormuth in March is to reform several legacy processes that is keeping the service from adopting modern so

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

Digital asset adoption continues to grow exponentially, and pending Treasury regulations will establish governance for how this asset class should be reported on for tax purposes.

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USFCR

MAY 14, 2024

Energy and Environmental Services: Catalysts for a Sustainable Future The federal government's commitment to sustainability and the environment, demonstrated through billions in investment, presents vast opportunities for businesses in the energy and environmental services sector. This comprehensive guide is designed to help your business navigate the growing demand for sustainable solutions, positioning your offerings as essential to the national agenda for a greener planet.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Chuck Prow, the outgoing CEO at V2X, received his 10th Wash100 Award this year. Jim Garrettson, the award’s founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Prow with the plaque at an in-person meeting at V2X’s McLean, Virginia headquarters last week. The Wash100 Award annually celebrates the finest talent shaping the government contracting sector.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

Fearless has named two new executives to its leadership team to help enhance the company’s expertise in cybersecurity, national security and artificial intelligence and support growth efforts to achieve its 2023 vision.

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Federal News Network

MAY 14, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal grants can be a huge boost for small businesses. And some federal agencies do better at giving grants to small businesses than others. The Small Business Administration released its annual scorecard measuring how well federal agencies meet their small business contracting goals each year. Overall, the federal government has a goal to award 23% of contracts to small businesses.

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FedScoop

MAY 14, 2024

Final versions of two publications that the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued Tuesday are aimed at helping contractors and other organizations protect and secure controlled unclassified information they handle. The guidance comes after the agency solicited feedback on drafts of the documents last year, and clarifies previous NIST guidance that included language inconsistent with the agency’s source catalog of security and privacy controls.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

Kevin O’Buckley, a more than 25-year semiconductor industry veteran, has joined Intel’s executive leadership team to succeed the retiring Stuart Pann as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Foundry Services business segment.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court seemed to want more information Tuesday about the source of the former Lancaster County district attorney's "program funds" before wading into whether the DA had the discretion to spend those funds on Kleinbard LLC's legal fees rather than asking his county commissioners for approval.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel have delivered the Aurora exascale supercomputer to the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, providing researchers access to an artificial intelligence-capable system with a computing capacity of one quintillion operations per second.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

As courts handle increasingly complex damages analyses involving vast amounts of data, an economic clerkship program — integrating early-career economists into the judicial system — could improve legal outcomes and provide essential training to clerks, say Mona Birjandi at Data for Decisions and Matt Farber at Secretariat.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

ManTech will help the U.S. Air Force transform its human capital information technology profile under a new $110 million contract.

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SmallGovCon

MAY 14, 2024

Steven Koprince, Govology Legal Analyst and retired founder of Koprince McCall Pottroff will be presenting this webinar to help you understand when a small business subcontracting plan is required for a federal prime contractor. Additionally, the course will cover common oversights and mistakes made by prime contractors in connection with establishing and implementing small business subcontracting plans.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

Most agencies need to conduct a network assessment as they look for ways to improve their technology to better meet their missions. Increased adoption of edge computing and the Internet of Things means agencies are dealing with more and different connected devices and systems, generating an unprecedented amount of data for emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to analyze.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 14, 2024

Summary City Colleges of Chicago (CCC)—the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation—participates in two no-cost Amazon Web Services (AWS) initiatives to advance and develop undergraduate technical programs. The AWS Machine Learning University Educator Enablement Program (MLU EEP) and the Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance connect early career talent to in-demand technical jobs globally, including in Illinois.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

By Amy Hilbert, executive vice president of government solutions at Casepoint In an era where transparency and accountability are paramount, the Freedom of Information Act stands as a critical tool for citizens seeking access to government records.

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SmallGovCon

MAY 14, 2024

If a contracting officer determines that a small business offeror is not qualified to perform under a given solicitation, that typically means the offeror’s proposal will be rejected. But when the rejection deals with responsibility, the offeror may get a second bite at the apple through the SBA’s Certificate of Competency (“COC”) program. Whether this is news to you, or something you simply wish to understand a bit better, let’s take a look at the basics of the SBA’s COC Program, ru

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Charles Onstott, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Calibre Systems, has been promoted to executive VP and corporate officer at the Alexandria, Virginia-based management consulting and digital transformation company. Onstott joined Calibre in May 2021 as SVP and CTO responsible for overseeing digital transformation efforts across the company, Calibre said Monday.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 14, 2024

SDVOSB government contracts help veterans venturing into the government contracting arena. They are granted specifically for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) to establish a firm foothold in the federal marketplace. With at least 3% of government procurement funds allotted to eligible SDVOSBs each year, veterans have an exclusive opportunity to secure federal contracts.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Aaron Bedrowsky, formerly a senior vice president at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been named SVP of the intelligence and homeland security division at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business segment. He will oversee teams tasked with developing and delivering IT products and professional services to IHS agencies in his new capacity, GDIT said Monday.

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Bestek Procurement

MAY 14, 2024

Arthur en Matanja hebben het over de behandeling van vertrouwelijke informatie in aanbestedingen aan de hand van de arresten Klaipèdos en Antea Polska. The post #41 Welke informatie is vertrouwelijk? first appeared on Bestek Public Procurement Central. Arthur en Matanja hebben het over de behandeling van vertrouwelijke informatie in aanbestedingen aan de hand van de arresten Klaipèdos en Antea Polska.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Amtec, a National Defense Corp. company, will supply high-velocity training rounds to the U.S. Army under a five-year, $818.9 million contract. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via the internet and will determine work locations and budget with individual orders, the Department of Defense said Monday.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 14, 2024

On 6 February 2024, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CiArb) European Branch/French Chapter held a seminar at the Paris office of Bird & Bird moderated by Jalal El Ahdab (Bird&Bird) and Alexandre Malan (Belot Malan & Associés) on a crucial topic: Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) issues and their impact on international arbitration.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Craig Martell, former chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense, will assume the position of chief technology officer at Cohesity. In a statement Monday, Martell, said, “My role will be to accelerate the innovation internally and the advocacy externally of Cohesity’s AI-powered innovations that are second to none.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

The Federal Circuit opted Tuesday not to say whether a 2005 public health law provides any legal immunity in a patent dispute between rival manufacturers of COVID-19 test swabs, leaving the thorny question unanswered.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Jeremy Wensinger, a 35-year government services and defense industry executive, has been hired to succeed Chuck Prow, a 2024 Wash100 awardee who has been at the helm of V2X (NYSE: VVX) since 2022, as president and CEO of the McLean, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor, effective June 17.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Tuesday released a final version of revised guidelines for contractors and other entities who handle sensitive unclassified federal information, intended to clarify and streamline those requirements.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Cyber touches all aspects of the federal government in today’s digital world. Today, cyber is the foundation upon which emerging technologies and innovations are built, and cyber’s importance only continues to grow.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

Counsel for Boeing attempted to convince the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday that a rival aircraft company's bid to claim unjust enrichment amid a long-running U.S. Air Force contract fight should be barred by contract language that waived claims for damages stemming from Boeing's allegedly underhanded bidding tactics.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Mansour Yusuf, chief cloud/edge architect at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said artificial intelligence could help government agencies advance automation and intelligence-driven decision-making and improve performance and security when managing multicloud environments.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

Vein disease device maker Inari Medical Inc. and three of its current and former executives face a proposed investor class action over claims that the company's share price fell after it disclosed an investigation into its compliance with federal anti-kickback laws.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 14, 2024

Fearless has appointed Jacob Hsu as executive chair and Joe Paiva as chief operating officer. “Jacob and Joe are exactly the type of visionary leaders we need. They’ll catapult Fearless forward as we redefine the boundaries of tech innovation and social impact,” said CEO Delali Dzirasa. “Though they have their complementary expertise in a variety [.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

Six Federal Circuit judges counseled a packed room of attorneys on Tuesday about the most common ways to ruin their own cases, such as talking too much at oral argument, adding additional citations and attacking judges or opposing counsel.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 14, 2024

Vivek Malhotra has been named president of Xcelerate Solutions. Xcelerate recently merged with VMD Corp., where Malhotra was a co-founder and president. “I am beyond excited to welcome Vivek to our leadership team,” said Mark Drever, CEO and founding partner of Xcelerate. “Vivek’s ability to foster innovation while balancing the bottom line will help to [.

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Government Contracts

MAY 14, 2024

The New York Unified Court System can't be sued in federal court by a Spanish speaker whose limited English language skills allegedly barred him from a program that could have reduced a drug offense's severity, the New York federal court has ruled.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 14, 2024

ManTech has won a 3-year, $110 million prime contract with the U.S. Air Force to help transform data and enterprise architectures, consolidate and modernize platforms, and integrate artificial intelligence into human capital business processes. “ManTech’s digital transformation capabilities will play a pivotal role in revamping the Air Force’s human capital systems portfolio,” said David Hathaway, [.

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