Art of Procurement
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
In July of 2024, the USDA suspended production at a Boar’s Head meat processing plant in Jarratt, Virginia and the. The post Liverwurst, Listeria, and Liability: Food Safety at Boar’s Head appeared first on Art of Procurement.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Drone technology company Red Cat announced Tuesday that it had been selected by the U.S. Army as the winner of the Short Range Reconnaissance program of record.
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FedScoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Legislation from a bipartisan pair of House lawmakers that would extend the Chief Data Officers Council past the end of the year passed out of committee Wednesday after being introduced Monday. The Modernizing Data Practices to Improve Government Act ( H.R. 10151 ), introduced by Reps. Summer Lee, D-Pa., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., which cleared the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is the companion piece to a Senate bill that was introduced in September.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
SkyePoint Decisions has named Manohar Kumar and Durriya Badani as the company’s senior vice president of operations and vice president of strategic accounts, respectively.
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GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Lockheed Martin has appointed Robert Toth as vice president of air mobility and maritime missions and Brian Dunn as vice president and deputy for strategy and business development at the missiles and fire control business. The executives announced their appointments via separate LinkedIn posts. Toth joined Lockheed in 2016 after years-long service in the U.S.
ExecutiveBiz
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The U.S. Air Force has awarded ELB Services a $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide mission planning support services. Under the single-award IDIQ, which will run for 10 years, the Georgia-based company will support the service’s joint mission planning, portable flight planning and joint precision airdrop systems, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
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FedScoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The Internal Revenue Service’s experimentation with voicebot and chatbot functionality should continue, but several tweaks to the technology are needed for better customer service, an advisory panel to the tax agency said Wednesday. In its 379-page annual report , the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council devoted a small section to results from its testing of artificial intelligence-powered voicebots and chatbots in use by the agency’s taxpayer services division.
GovSpend
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
State and local governments are required to obligate their ARPA funds by December 31st, 2024. Therefore, vendors and contractors who sell to SLED agencies have a short window of opportunity to pitch products and services that are covered by these funds. Here’s what you need to know. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), enacted in March 2021, allocated $350 billion through the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to assist state, local, territorial, and Tribal governments in addressing t
Scottish Government Procurement
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The latest addition to the Sustainable Procurement Tools website is a case study from NHS National Services Scotland (NHSS). NHSS is aiming to accelerate sustainability within its frameworks in collaboration with suppliers. Describing the approach to the procurement of Haemodialysis Machines and Consumables, this case study provides a range of useful lessons learned for NHSS and others to help with this evolution.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Gunnison Consulting Group has secured a five-year contract from the State Department to provide cybersecurity support services for the Bureau of Consular Affairs. The McLean, Virginia-based company said Thursday it will implement a zero trust strategy to help the department’s Consular Systems Technology Chief Information Security Officer improve its cybersecurity defenses.
FedScoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A letter signed by 12 senators urges DHS to investigate the TSA's use of facial recognition before it expands the technology's use to many additional airports.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
EDITING -- A federal judge sent 39 lawsuits alleging violations of a New Jersey judicial privacy law back to state courts, finding the district lacks subject matter jurisdiction.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Snowflake has agreed to acquire Datavolo, a provider of a single platform developed to automate and manage structured and unstructured data flows between enterprise data sources.
Kluwer Arbitration
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
On March 27, 2024, an arbitration tribunal issued its Phase II award in the EcuadorTLC v. Ecuador II case (“ EcuadorTLC II ”), a decision that has flown under the radar of systemic analysis. This case is one of a number of new Ecuadorian arbitration cases ( here , here ) that have come into the public eye in the post-award phase, as the state and its entities have initiated annulment proceedings before the Santiago Court of Appeals.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
RTX business Raytheon has received two U.S. Navy contracts worth $360.4 million combined to repair, replace and upgrade parts within two of the 13 major subsystems of the Aegis weapon system.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Mark Ridley-Thomas' attorney on Thursday urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn the former California politician's bribery conviction for scheming to indirectly donate $100,000 to his son's nonprofit and secure him a university position, saying prosecutors coined the "catchphrase" "funneling" to obfuscate that no bribe actually occurred.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
LMI has named Randal Dragon, a three-decade U.S. Army veteran, as vice president of business development for the defense market. In a LinkedIn post announcing the promotion, the Tysons, Virginia-based management consulting firm said Dragon will leverage his 30 years of military service and understanding of customer missions to pursue opportunities and drive strategic growth.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A real estate developer convicted of bribing former Los Angeles City Councilor José Huizar with $500,000 for help overcoming challenges to a downtown project asked the Ninth Circuit for a new trial, arguing Thursday the lower court erroneously excluded evidence showing the developer didn't know the money would be used as a bribe.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The Department of Defense has started seeking industry feedback on a draft request for proposal to develop a sustainable Advancing Artificial Intelligence Multiple Award Contract, or AAMAC. According to the special notice posted on SAM.gov Wednesday the multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract aims to enhance the development of AI-based technologies.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A Texas environmental group sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Texas federal court Thursday, claiming the Corps rubber-stamped a barge mooring project in the San Jacinto River that runs a serious risk of releasing dangerous contaminants and poisoning the waterway.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The General Services Administration has announced plans to issue the first rolling awards under the Total Small Business and Unrestricted tracks of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus, or OASIS+, contract program in early and mid-December, respectively.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A Vermont telecom all but accused the Department of Justice of undercutting the company's False Claims Act suit alleging fraudulent Dish Network spectrum bidding in order to protect a major donor to President Joe Biden, arguing Thursday that its suit should go forth even without the government's blessing.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Leidos subsidiary Dynetics, a company specializing in hypersonics, has received a $670.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to supply the U.S. Army with the common-hypersonic glide body and thermal protection system. Dynetics Contract Scope Dynetics will perform work at its headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama. The project is expected to run until Oct.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense failed to properly identify and fix health, safety and environmental hazards in military housing, according to a Thursday report from the DOD's Office of Inspector General.
GovCon Wire
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Kelli Murphy has joined Peraton as vice president of strategy for the citizen security and public services sector, the executive announced in a LinkedIn post Wednesday. Murphy most recently served as vice president for the Department of Homeland Security at Pyramid Systems.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle's groundbreaking decision in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC, holding that qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are unconstitutional, relies on weak logic to reach a conclusion that differs from every other court that has ruled on the issue, says Ethan Greenberg at Anderson Kill.
FedTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Border Gateway Protocol, a data routing framework developed in 1989 on the premise that all routed contents could be trusted, can no longer be trusted. That is the guidance from the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), which unveiled its Roadmap to Enhancing Internet Routing Security on Sept. 3, detailing a flaw inherent to BGP that renders it unable to protect agencies from accidental errors and intentional attacks.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A home healthcare executive who led a scheme to defraud Medicare of nearly $8 million through fraudulent billing practices and who fled the country after his indictment has been sentenced to more than three years in prison, according to a judgment filed in Michigan federal court Wednesday.
AWS Public Sector
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
After years of preparation, the Department of Defense (DoD) has finally rolled out a new framework for ensuring cybersecurity in its supplier base: the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0. In June 2024, DoD Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity David McKeown announced the agency would begin requiring CMMC 2.0 compliance in the first quarter of 2025.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A patent attorney urged the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to revive False Claims Act allegations against Allergan over dementia drug patents, arguing his client used his expertise to discover the patents were fraudulently issued to block generics and that these are the kinds of FCA cases the government welcomes from experts.
AWS Public Sector
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Digital transformation in government involves more than digitizing existing processes. Transformation requires a complete step-change rethinking of how to deliver services to citizens, how the power of data is used, and how government agencies operate internally. This transformation is accelerated by the adoption of cloud technologies. Creating a government that is more transparent, better performing, and capable of responding to the needs of its citizens in real-time is not without its challeng
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A group of former officials from Newington, Connecticut, including its onetime town attorney, have appealed a state judge's decision to throw out all of their claims against the town and nearly all against tax assessors they had accused of defaming them with a false ethics complaint.
AWS Public Sector
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
National security, defence, and law enforcement organizations want to use the cloud so they can share data and communicate in near-real time with their allies to counteract evolving threats to their citizens. For example, the United Kingdom’s Cloud Strategic Roadmap for Defence says: “A critical component of our Digital Backbone is hyperscale cloud capabilities across all classifications.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A federal judge said Thursday that she was likely to allow a Texas attorney to continue with her defamation suit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over comments that suggested she presented "doctored" evidence to state senators in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Agencies cannot discuss future innovation without also talking about cybersecurity. Let’s dive into some key considerations for agencies to create a secure digital ecosystem: Building a Stronger Cyber Foundation Agencies need to address two givens in today’s cyber landscape: that the risk of attacks continues to grow —so they need to adopt better defenses — and that some attacks will succeed — so they need to limit the damage that is done.
Government Contracts
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
An attorney who most recently worked as the deputy staff director, budget director and counsel to the House Committee on Appropriations has joined Holland & Knight LLP's public policy and regulation group as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.
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