Federal News Network
JUNE 4, 2024
Government contractors on the whole are optimistic about future business. More than half grew their revenue year over year. They expect more growth as the government adopts artificial intelligence. The most recent contractor survey conducted by Deltek also shows small businesses have outsized challenges. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin got more from Deltek Senior Vice President Kevin Plexico.
FedScoop
JUNE 4, 2024
Working under the threat of technology-related budget cuts that has elicited concern from both sides of the aisle , the Department of Veterans Affairs has managed to make progress on several tech priorities, the agency’s artificial intelligence chief said last week. In an interview with FedScoop, Charles Worthington, the VA’s CAIO and CTO, said the agency is engaged in targeted hiring for AI experts while also sustaining its existing modernization efforts.
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Redstone Government Consulting
JUNE 4, 2024
Besides the potential tax benefits of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Years 2022 and 2024 has introduced an additional benefit for employee-owned businesses contracting with the Department of Defense (DoD). A pilot program that will allow for the award of follow-on contracts without competition.
Federal News Network
JUNE 4, 2024
Growth is usually the name of the game in business. However, trying to mask that growth so that your company can qualify for special government contracts is a tactic some take, despite the possible consequences. Fines, disbarment, or even jail time can come from not being forthcoming about your firm’s current state or origin, especially as there has been an uptick in enforcement actions from the federal government.
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Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
Federal News Network
JUNE 4, 2024
This week on Off the Shelf , Townsend Bourne, partner at Sheppard Mullin , shares her insights regarding the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA’s) proposed rule implementing the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA). Townsend Bourne, partner, Sheppard Mullin At over 400 pages, the proposed CIRCIA rule is a daunting read.
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Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
The Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Air Force have selected four companies to build and demonstrate an unmanned aerial vehicle prototype that will serve as a foundation for low-cost, high-rate production and deployment of new drone technologies across the Department of Defense.
Open Contracting Partnership
JUNE 4, 2024
Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. But governments’ digital transformation of their systems to better achieve these goals are at varying stages of development and maturity. I have had opportunities to support more than 60 countries across the globe in reviewing and advising their e-procurement (e-GP) initiatives.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
Northrop Grumman has secured a $119.6 million contract to help the U.S. Navy repair components of its E-2 Hawkeye aircraft fleet. The company will repair 17 weapon replaceable assemblies and shop replaceable assemblies for the service branch’s all-weather airborne early warning aircraft under the sole source contract, the Department of Defense said Monday.
Whistleblower Network News
JUNE 4, 2024
Following the leadership drama at OpenAI in November and December of 2023, a number of top safety-minded employees have departed from the company in recent months, alleging cultural shifts around safety and the use of restrictive non-disparagement agreements. Anonymous sources told Vox journalists Kelsey Piper and Sigal Samuel that few employees are willing to speak about the company publicly, partly due to offboarding agreements with non-disparagement provisions upon departure, where if you ref
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a $13 million contract from the U.S. Army for the second phase of a project aimed at developing lighter and more survivable military vehicles.
FedInsider
JUNE 4, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Election security is top of mind across the United States, from concern about malign foreign interference, to DDoS attacks against election websites, to the security of voting machines and their software, to insider and third-party threats, even to “swatting” of local election officials, to name just a few.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
RIVA Solutions has appointed Gerald Caron, former chief information officer for the International Trade Administration, as its new vice president of Cybersecurity. Caron brings to the McLean, Virginia-based information technology government contractor and systems integrator more than 20 years of experience as a leader in global IT operations and cybersecurity, RIVA said Monday.
GovTribe
JUNE 4, 2024
GovTribe studied data from over 260,000 unique users and millions of interactions to find the top 20 opportunities in the federal market heading into June 2024. Let’s start by diving into the top three.
ExecutiveBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
Michael Polmar, a growth executive with three decades of experience in business development and operational strategy, was appointed chief growth officer at Tyto Athene, according to his LinkedIn announcement. Polmar joined the portfolio company of Washington, D.C.-based private investment firm Arlington Capital Partners after holding the same role at Bart & Associates.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 4, 2024
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) reported 0.4 percent organic growth and $1.85 billion in revenue during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2025 and recorded $1.48 in diluted earnings per share and adjusted diluted EPS of $1.92.
FedTech Magazine
JUNE 4, 2024
Agencies’ cybersecurity budgets continue to increase to help them better prevent evolving threats to sensitive data and systems. Investing in stronger security measures and cyber hygiene training for employees makes sense, but mistakes — such as clicking on a suspicious link — are inevitable, and when they occur, attackers can breach federal systems.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 4, 2024
Multinational information technology company HP (NYSE: HPQ) has completed its acquisition of Maryland-based CyberCore Technologies for an undisclosed sum and will run the acquired company as a subsidiary of HPI Federal.
Kluwer Arbitration
JUNE 4, 2024
For decades, Pakistan’s arbitration framework has faced criticism for its inconsistency and inefficiency, contributing to the country’s staggering backlog of over 2.26 million cases in the courts. This backlog includes cases affected by an ineffective arbitration regime that encourages arbitral matters to be taken to courts as a result of their extensive interventionist powers pursuant to the Arbitration Act 1940 of Pakistan (“Existing Act”).
Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
Two northern Florida business owners have been federally indicted on fraud conspiracy-related charges in connection to a scheme in which they allegedly stole nearly $3 million from minority-owned companies by promising grant-writing services that were never delivered.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 4, 2024
Prachi Sukhatankar Vice President of Climate and Infrastructure, Booz Allen Hamilton Prachi Sukhatankar’s biggest recent achievement was working with her team and scaling it to support federal agencies in their charter to advance climate resilience, modernization and data missions. Ultimately, they see climate resilience as an economic, national security and health imperative for the country. [.
Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
Pharmaceutical companies urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to heed the federal government's suggestion to throw out a D.C. Circuit ruling holding them potentially liable for allegedly financing terror attacks against U.S. servicemembers through contracts with the Iraqi government.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 4, 2024
Sol Salinas Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead for the Americas, Capgemini Sol Salinas’ recent notable achievement was delivering the keynote commencement address at his alma mater, George Mason University. Additionally, he was honored in the 2022 class of distinguished alumni for his remarkable career and dedication to sustainability and global climate change.
Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals has tossed all remaining claims in a long-running dispute over Supreme Foodservice GmbH's roughly $8 billion contract to provide food to U.S. troops, after the company and the Defense Logistics Agency jointly agreed to end the case.
WashngtonExec
JUNE 4, 2024
Tyto Athene, an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MindPoint Group, which provides end-to-end managed cybersecurity services to U.S. federal agencies. “MindPoint’s customer-first ethos and dedication to delivering top-of-the-line cybersecurity solutions make an excellent fit with our mission-focused culture,” said Dennis Kelly, CEO of Tyto Athene.
The Softly Spark
JUNE 4, 2024
Consumers are demanding more sustainable products, and businesses that make environmentally friendly products want to advertise their good works to their customers. But today’s regulatory environment is not making this easy. Even companies with the best intentions are finding out the hard way that there are many moving parts when it comes to marketing their products.
Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
A psychiatrist convicted of billing Medicare and private insurers for $19 million worth of treatments he never provided should serve more than 11 years in prison for the "brazen, greed-fueled" fraud scheme, prosecutors have told a Boston federal judge.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 4, 2024
Deloitte has purchased substantially all of the assets of CasePointer, the disease surveillance business of End Point, in an effort to help drive the growth of its public health transformation team.
Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
The White House has threatened to veto a $147.5 billion bill funding military construction and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, citing partisan policy proposals it said would harm minority groups and risk patient safety at VA medical facilities.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 4, 2024
Mike Spagna, formerly senior vice president of the federal civilian sector at HighPoint Digital, has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operations officer at the government information technology services provider. He will manage HighPoint Digital’s overall operational functions and help drive its service delivery and expansion in the federal marketplace, the company said.
Government Contracts
JUNE 4, 2024
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC didn't give Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bad advice when it set up a debt deal that allowed construction to continue on a controversial incinerator project that sent the state capital into financial distress, an attorney for the firm told Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 4, 2024
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $1.93 billion contract modification to produce and deliver high mobility artillery rocket system launchers to the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command-Redstone is the contracting activity and will determine work locations and funding upon the issuance of individual contract orders, the Department of Defense said Monday.
Select GCR
JUNE 4, 2024
Are you seeking 8a business development certification? Our detailed guide will help you understand what it means for your small, disadvantaged business. We cover the eligibility criteria, application steps, and the tangible benefits you can gain from this program, aiming to enhance your competitive edge in government contracting. Whether new or seasoned in the federal marketplace, our insights will help streamline your certification journey.
GovCon Wire
JUNE 4, 2024
Chris George, the newly minted president and general manager of Intel Federal, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson in a recent in-person meeting at Intel’s Fairfax, Virginia office.
Extract Systems
JUNE 4, 2024
Accessibility is something we talk about frequently in our government blogs, but usually in the context of the ease of getting to public records. Extract offers automation software that classifies and indexes files like public records and redacts personally identifiable information (PII) from them if necessary. In these cases, we’re referring to accessibility after the fact.
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