Tue.Nov 21, 2023

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Jacobs to Create Public Government Tech Company Via Merger of CMS, Cyber & Intell Businesses With Amentum; John Heller Quoted

GovCon Wire

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.

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Innovations in Data: Give People Time to Figure Things Out

GovLoop

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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Commercial Solutions Assist the U.S. Army in Securing Remote Classrooms

FedTech Magazine

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.

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SBA Lifts the Application Hold for 8(a) Certification

Select GCR

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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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

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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Army Veteran Michael Greenberg Takes on SVP Role at Decision Lens

GovCon Wire

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.

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NGA gives high school students top-secret clearances, boosting cyber talent pipeline

FedScoop

“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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Responsibly Buying Artificial Intelligence: A Regulatory Hallucination?

How to Crack a Nut

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.

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GovCon Expert Kim Koster: The Challenges Keeping GovCon Execs Up at Night (And How to Overcome Them)

GovCon Wire

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.

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Mitre Unveils BlueTech Lab to Support Marine Technology Development

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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How To Maximize Your Professional Network & Win Key Opportunities

GovCon Wire

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.

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Chuck Jones Named Vice President of Digital Operations at Raytheon

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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Tech Experts Share Insights on the Future of Citizen Development

GovCon Wire

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.

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ECS to Support VA Office’s Digital Transformation Initiatives Under $61B Contract; John Heneghan Quoted

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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Cubic Corporation CEO Stevan Slijepcevic Presented With 2023 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

GovCon Wire

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.

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Lockheed Taps Perfekta to Supply Parts for 2 Space Programs; Robert Lightfoot Quoted

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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QinetiQ Lands $170M CBP Tethered Aerostat Radar Operations Support Contract; Shawn Purvis Quoted

GovCon Wire

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.

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Curtiss-Wright Veteran David Jedynak Elevated to VP Role

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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Arlington Capital Closes Purchase of Collaboration Software Company Exostar; Richard Addi Quoted

GovCon Wire

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.

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All About the £480m NHS IT Deal

Spend Network

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.

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Gilat Pushes Into US Defense Market With Acquisition of DataPath

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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Innovations in CX: Gauging Engagement

GovLoop

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.

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Boeing Moves to Production of Grey Wolf Helicopter as Test Phase Ends

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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Amentum to Merge with Jacobs’ CMS, Cyber & Intelligence Government Services Businesses

WashngtonExec

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 [.

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From Award to Enforcement: Nigeria’s Innovative Award Review Tribunal Through the Eyes Of National Courts and Expanding Appeal Horizon

Kluwer Arbitration

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.

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ECS to Support VA Office’s Digital Transformation Initiatives Under $61B Contract; John Heneghan Quoted

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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A Real Estate Industry Shakeup

Extract Systems

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.

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3 Reasons Why Data Sharing Could Transform US Healthcare Ecosystem

GovCon Wire

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.

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Top Supply Chain Execs to Watch in 2023: Northrop Grumman’s Greg Maxwell

WashngtonExec

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 [.

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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System Seen Combat: Fact Sheet Display

ExecutiveBiz

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.

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Top Supply Chain Execs to Watch in 2023: LMI’s Joseph Niehaus

WashngtonExec

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 [.

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October Bid Protest Sustain of the Month

Government Contracts Legal Forum

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.

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Aligned2’s Dusty Wince on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Coaching & Overcoming Change

WashngtonExec

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 [.

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Ex-Boeing Manager Wants $750K For Emotional Damages

Government Contracts

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.

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HII Mission Technologies Wins Work on Air Force Pegasus Task Order

WashngtonExec

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 [.

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Baltimore County Tells 4th Circ. Inmates Aren't Employees

Government Contracts

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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Agile Defense Secures Potential $1B DISA Contract to Support Joint Warfighting Systems; Rick Wagner Quoted

ExecutiveBiz

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.