GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Jacobs Solutions (NYSE: J) has agreed to spin off and merge its critical mission solutions and cyber and intelligence businesses with Amentum to form a new publicly traded government technology services contractor.
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
When data novices find themselves stumped, they often waste no time in calling a data expert. Soon enough, the problem is solved. But what did they learn? It’s like the adage about giving someone a fish vs. teaching them to fish for themselves. That’s why Scott Beliveau, Principal Innovation Architect at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, recommends that data experts give novices an opportunity to work through problems on their own.
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FedTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The U.S. Army Cyber School trains the Army’s cyberwarfare workforce, often in classified spaces on a dedicated network. Between 900 and 1,000 soldiers are in-house at any given moment for training that lasts between 20 and 40 weeks. “Our classes are like a conveyer belt,” says Todd Boudreau, deputy commandant of the Cyber School, part of the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence.
Select GCR
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
BREAKING NEWS! The SBA is accepting 8(a) applications! Select GCR clients who have been waiting to submit their documents are being scheduled for their final submission this week. Please note: due to an influx in applications and the additional review of a narrative for every 8(a) participant and applicant, there will be longer processing times for approval from the SBA.
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GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Michael Greenberg, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has been named senior vice president of Army at data management and planning software developer Decision Lens.
FedScoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
“Hook ’em early.” That’s the mantra for Gary Buchanan, chief information security officer of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, on how to bolster the cyber workforce at his agency. But he’s not talking about college interns. NGA has created a program to hire high school students as interns and give them top-secret security clearances to work on mission-critical work like cybersecurity to bolster the talent pipeline, Buchanan said during a panel at Scoop Ne
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How to Crack a Nut
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
I look forward to delivering the lecture ‘ Responsibly Buying Artificial Intelligence: A Regulatory Hallucination? ’ as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2023-24 organised by UCL Laws. The lecture will be this Thursday 23 November 2023 at 6pm GMT and you can still register to participate (either online or in person). These are the slides I will be using , in case you want to take a sneak peek.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet Unanet and CohnReznick recently released the seventh annual GAUGE Report, a report that surveys top government contracting (GovCon) executives to identify industry trends and benchmarks.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Mitre has opened a laboratory at its campus in Bedford, Massachusetts, to expand work on marine technologies meant to help ensure national, climate and economic security. The Blue Tech Lab has a 620,000-gallon test tank designed to accommodate communication and acoustic sensing studies and the use of unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, Mitre said Monday.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
How many people do you think you know? This weekend, the Wall Street Journal provided the numbers, revealing that the average person knows about 600 people, with a majority of that number being acquaintances.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Chuck Jones , formerly a vice president at Honeywell , has joined RTX business Raytheon as VP of digital operations. In a recent post on LinkedIn, Jones said he would spearhead product life cycle process transformation efforts and collaborate with the senior engineering, supply chain, operations and quality leadership teams.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In its simplest form, citizen development is “enabling mission owners to code,” Mark Andress, global vice president of Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence, said during a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Homeland Security Summit last week.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
ECS has secured a prime spot on the $60.7 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 contract vehicle of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The company said Monday that, under the potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract, it will deliver a range of information technology and engineering services to bolster the technology infrastructure of the VA's Office of Information Technology.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Earlier this month, Stevan Slijepcevic, president and CEO of Cubic Corporation, received his second Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, in a meeting at Cubic’s Ashburn, Virginia headquarters.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Lockheed Martin has selected Wichita, Kansas-headquartered Perfekta, a division of Cadence Aerospace, to build parts for the Orion spacecraft and supply defense components for an early missile warning satellite constellation, The Wichita Business Journal reported Monday.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
QinetiQ Group‘s U.S. subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $170 million contract to help Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations manage and sustain an airborne detection and monitoring system supporting air, maritime and ground surveillance.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
David Jedynak announced on LinkedIn on Monday that he has been promoted to vice president of strategic planning at Curtiss-Wright. In his new role, he is responsible for driving the top-line growth of the defense solutions division, overseeing research and development spending and strategic growth-related activities such as mergers and acquisitions.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has finalized its acquisition of Exostar, a provider of cloud-based secure business collaboration software, from software investment firm Thoma Bravo to help Exostar drive its growth strategy, advance innovation and expand its offerings in highly regulated industries.
Spend Network
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The US analytics and AI firm Palantir, partnering with Accenture, could be awarded as the £480m Federated Data Platform (FDP) procurement winner. The announcement is expected after ministers signed off on the decision.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Gilat Satellite Networks has acquired DataPath , a Duluth, Georgia-based manufacturer of communications platforms for military, government and commercial applications, in a transaction aimed at expanding the former's footprint in the defense communications market. Gilat said Thursday it closed the deal after securing approvals from the companies' boards of directors and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Know When Engagement Matters (and Doesn’t) Agencies develop many digital tools for constituent engagement, but sometimes the best response is…silence. Is it better to hear complaints about a city’s garbage pickup or hear no complaints at all? According to Summer Xiao , Deputy CIO in Houston’s Project Management Office, “The public actually doesn’t want to engage with you.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Agile Defense has booked a potential $1.01 billion Defense Information Systems Agency single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Joint Interoperability Test Command. Under the award, Agile Defense will deliver test and evaluation planning , results reporting and data collection and analysis services to assist the command with a range of functional areas, the Reston, Virginia-based contractor announced on Tuesday.
WashngtonExec
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Jacobs is spinning off and merging its Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber & Intelligence government services businesses with Amentum, creating a new, publicly traded company in the GovCon market. The decision to separate Jacobs’ CMS business was first revealed in May, with the goal of establishing two distinct companies. The merger with Amentum is anticipated [.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Boeing has completed the research, development, test and evaluation phase for the MH-139A Grey Wolf. The aircraft manufacturer said Monday it will now transition to and concentrate on the production of the helicopters, with the delivery of the first low-rate production aircraft to the U.S. Air Force expected in mid-2024.
Kluwer Arbitration
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As the Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023 (AMA) reshapes the legal landscape of dispute resolution in Nigeria, one of its remarkable provisions is the establishment of the Award Review Tribunal (ART). At Kluwer Arbitration Blog, posts have already been published that provide an overview of the AMA and more insights into the ART. To recall, this innovative mechanism , defined in Section 56 of the AMA, adds a new dimension to traditional arbitration proceedings.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
ECS has secured a prime spot on the $60.7 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 contract vehicle of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The company said Monday that, under the potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract, it will deliver a range of information technology and engineering services to bolster the technology infrastructure of the VA's Office of Information Technology.
Extract Systems
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
I recently came across an interesting article posted by the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA). The gist of the article is that a federal jury ruled the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and several large brokerages conspired to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. “Under a NAR rule, a home seller is required to pay commissions to the agent representing the buyer, which sellers claimed forced them to pay excessive fees to the agents.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Across the public and private sectors, organizations are seeing a massive influx of data. As this data is processed, new information and insights are unlocked, paving the way for organizations to modernize, adapt and innovate faster and more effectively than ever before. The same is true for the U.S.
WashngtonExec
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Greg Maxwell Vice President of Operations Strategy & Global Supply Chain, Northrop Grumman Greg Maxwell’s team of supply chain professionals managed Northrop Grumman’s large and complex supply chain through unprecedented challenges over the past three years – inflation, long material lead times, electronics and raw material shortages, the “great resignation,” impacts of COVID-19, transportation bottlenecks and [.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, commonly referred to by its abbreviation THAAD, is an anti-missile ballistic interceptor of the United States. It’s the only U.S. system capable of intercepting targets inside and outside the atmosphere.
WashngtonExec
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Joseph Niehaus Senior Vice President of Logistics Solutions, LMI Joseph Niehaus is a seasoned supply chain professional who recently led an LMI effort that helped reduce supply chain risk and optimized operational resilience for the Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer. Niehaus’s team helped CDAO develop the Parts Replacement Impact Model, achieving [.
Government Contracts Legal Forum
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s 2023 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. All through 2023, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month. Below, Crowell Partner Cherie Owen discusses several protest decisions issued in October that provide helpful insights about the GAO protest process.
WashngtonExec
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Dusty Wince traveled a long and winding road to get to where he is today. On this new phase of his journey, he is giving back to individuals on a leadership quest of their own. As founder of the leadership consulting firm Aligned2, Wince is leveraging his personal and professional experience to help those in [.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
A former Boeing intellectual property manager is asking a Washington federal judge to award him between $750,000 and $1.75 million for emotional distress damages at the close of the trial over his allegations that he was retaliated against for speaking up against toxic treatment of older workers.
WashngtonExec
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
HII’s Mission Technologies division won a 3-year task order under the Analytical and Technical Services contract to provide information sharing capabilities to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. The alliance consists of the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. The task order is referred to as Pegasus and is administered by the secretary of [.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Inmates who performed work at a recycling plant in a county jail are not considered employees for the purposes of federal law because their work was rehabilitative in nature, Baltimore County told the Fourth Circuit, asking the court to keep its district court win.
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