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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Addressing underrepresentation in the IT workforce is the first step toward developing a robust pipeline of Native American IT professionals, according to Monday’s multipanel session at TribalNet 2024. Justin Raisor, advisory board member of the Tribal Cyber Training League, cited Cisco’s estimate that Native Amercians make up less than 0.005% of the tech workforce in the United States, despite accounting for nearly 3% of the country’s population.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Quantum computing is just over the horizon for the federal government, and agencies are gearing up for a future in which post-quantum cryptography, or PQC, defines information security.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The rapidly changing IT landscape dictates the need to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction, but companies face a number of challenges when creating and maintaining a company’s IT infrastructure. Using cloud technology helps alleviate the burden of undifferentiated work and maintenance compared to keeping environments on premises. By migrating to the cloud, customers are able to move away from having to buy, own, and maintain physical data centers and servers.

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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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WashngtonExec

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In the highly competitive and evolving world of government contracting, companies need to stay ahead of the game and on top of the trends to grow, succeed and achieve mission objectives internally and for customers. The teams leading these efforts set the company’s marketing and communications strategies with industry knowledge, strategic marketing techniques and expertise. [.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications. The firm offers solutions for cities , other governments and corrections.

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Government Contracts Navigator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Anthony Rapa, Alan G. Kashdan, and Brendan S. Saslow ● The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently issued an interim final rule (“IFR”) under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) imposing licensing requirements for exports to all destinations worldwide of certain gate all-around field effect transistor (“GAAFET”) technology, quantum computing items, advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment (“SME”), additive … Continue reading "BIS Issue

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration (GSA) joins Off the Shelf for a focused discussion on GSA’s current procurement policy priorities. Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive, GSA Koses talks about the implementation and expansion of Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) across the Federal Supply Schedules (FSS) program.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

OSIbeyond, a managed service provider, is fully compliant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s security requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information in nonfederal systems and organizations, according to Edwards Performance Solutions, a CMMC third-party assessor organization. Edwards Performance Solutions’ NIST 800-171 Rev.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Government technology company Raft has appointed business development executive William “Bill” Bal as senior vice president of growth and human resources executive Danielle McCoy as chief people officer.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence raises important questions across the defense sector, but one area of defense stands to gain from AI immediately: research and development. That’s according to Simon Porter, vice president of research futures with technology company Digital Science, who says “responsible AI” tools that help make R&D quicker and easier are already available.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Intuitive Machines (Nasdaq: LUNR) has received a potential 10-year, $4.82 billion contract from NASA to provide support for the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network. NASA said Tuesday the Subcategory 2.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Indian Health Service announced plans to start rolling out pilots of its new electronic health record at three Oklahoma sites in 2025: Lawton Indian Hospital, Anadarko Indian Health Center and Carnegie Indian Health Center. PATH EHR is a cloud-based EHR from Oracle Health that will replace IHS’ 40-year-old Resource and Patient Management System.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Katie Webb has joined Tria Federal to serve as executive vice president for public health at the middle-market technology and advisory services provider. In a statement published Tuesday, Tria Chief Operating Officer Mike Cosgrave said Webb will spearhead the company’s efforts in the public health market and ensure its expansion cover health-focused civilian government agencies.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, tools and products are part of a rapidly growing and evolving technology market. New guidance, developed to assist buyers and suppliers has now been published on both the Procurement Journey and Supplier Journey websites: Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Procurement Journey What do Buyers Need to Know About AI? | Procurement Journey Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Supplier Journey What Do Bidders Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security plans to solicit support services to operate Tier 1 of a multi-level Contact Center Operation.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

On 12 July 2024, more than 25 years after adopting its current arbitration law, the German government agreed on a draft reform law (“Draft Law”). It is based on a White Paper issued in April 2023 (reported here ), including comments received thereon (see here ). The now adopted version (dated 26 June 2024, to be submitted to parliament) is a further revised version of the draft law presented by the German Ministry of Justice in February 2024.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Constellis has promoted Andy Hartsog, most recently vice president of special projects for national security programs, to the position of executive VP of mission support services.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A Seventh Circuit judge seemed unsure Wednesday whether to disturb a $183 million verdict against Eli Lilly in a false claims case targeting more than a decade of drug rebate miscalculations, questioning whether the company skipped checking legal guidance before calling its price reporting requirements unclear.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE It has been one year since the issuance of the Executive Order on AI, and the landscape has been evolving rapidly, both in the public and private sectors. Federal agencies have successfully implemented pilot programs and gained insights into challenges, risks and opportunities for  “making AI real.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

CVS Health subsidiary Oak Street will pay $60 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by paying illegal kickbacks to third-party insurers in return for scouting and inducing Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to enroll in its primary care clinics, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

On September 18, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Oak Street Health agreed to pay $60 million to settle allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to third-party insurance agents in exchange for referring seniors to Oak Street Health’s primary care clinics. The DOJ alleges that Oak Street Health developed a scheme in which insurance agents c”ontacted seniors eligible for or enrolled in Medicare Advantage” and “delivered marketing

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vista Outdoor Inc. on Wednesday again rejected Dallas-based private equity firm MNC Capital Partners LP's bid to take over the company and instead recommended that its shareholders approve its already-inked deal with Czech defense company Czechoslovak Group AS.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Mattermost has integrated its self-hosted collaboration platform for critical infrastructure into Microsoft Teams and the entire Microsoft 365 software suite. The San Francisco, California-headquartered technology company said Tuesday that Mattermost for Microsoft Teams is available to users via an update.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged a Virginia federal judge to toss a suit from Afghan allies who claim their children's visa applications were arbitrarily denied, saying the suit has no legal leg to stand on.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Amentum’s unmanned aerial systems business and TB2 Aerospace, an aeronautical innovation company, are collaborating to bolster the operational capabilities of military UAS. The strategic partnership aims to utilize TB2’s Drone Recharging Operational Payload System to enhance the autonomous systems, Amentum said Monday.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A recent Fifth Circuit decision ruling that the U.S. Department of Labor could raise salary levels for overtime-exempt workers clarifies that the major questions doctrine should stay out of a case challenging the minimum wage increase for federal contractors, the DOL told the appeals court.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Information technology services company ECS Federal has been awarded a $1.2 million delivery order by the U.S. Army for the initial development of the Information Collection Management application. The service branch said Tuesday the award from the Army Contracting Command is the first under a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum value of $23 million.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A San Diego restaurant owner who worked with food delivery services during the pandemic and saw his business improve was convicted by a California federal jury of tax crimes and lying on loan applications to obtain more than $1.7 million in COVID-19 funds meant for struggling businesses.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Texas Department of Transportation, or TxDOT, has granted recompete contracts worth a total of $70M for Serco Inc. to stay as safety service support provider to its Highway Emergency Response Operator program in the Austin, El Paso and San Antonio districts.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Private prison contractor GEO Group Inc. will have to return to state court to fight allegations that it wouldn't let Washington public health inspectors into an immigration detention center, a Washington federal judge has ruled, saying the court has already debunked the same defenses in related cases.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Mike Pullen and Michael Zuromski of CGI Federal said oral presentations could help federal agencies streamline the proposal evaluation process, gain more insights into potential industry partners and make more informed decisions about government procurement.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to recover $100 million from the owner and the manager of the cargo ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, alleging gross negligence on their part killed six people and destroyed a vital transportation corridor.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

L3Harris Technologies received a $182 million indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force. The IDIQ contract will allow for the delivery of video data link technologies like the ROVER 6S and Tactical Network ROVER 2 handheld transceivers, L3Harris said Monday.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday further extended his pause of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians' lawsuit claiming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency improperly granted Florida authority over a Clean Water Act permitting program, while the D.C. Circuit considers an appeal in a similar case.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Maria Hedden has joined Aalyria, a global networking and laser communications technologies company, as its new chief operating officer. She brings to the role over two decades of experience and expertise in operations and program management, gained while working across the technology, defense and telecommunications sectors, Aalyria said Tuesday.

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