AWS Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2024

Personalized learning is a pressing challenge in modern education due to the diverse learning needs of students and the limited resources available to educators. Traditional methods of seeking academic support, such as one-on-one consultations or peer study groups, often fall short in providing tailored guidance and bridging knowledge gaps. Compounding these challenges is the inherent diversity of learners, each with distinct strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles, rendering a one-size-fits-

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

Women in Technology will present its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award to SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley on May 9, during the 25th Annual Leadership Awards Gala at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. This award recognizes women who significantly impacted the technology industry and advanced women’s careers. “I am deeply grateful to Women in Technology for [.

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

The most recent astronaut applicants to NASA were treated to a more modernized approach than their predecessors. Through a partnership with the Office of Personnel Management, the latest hiring cycle featured an automated application and online pre-screen assessment. While the astronaut process itself did not change, NASA became aware of OPM’s systems that support automation alongside continuous evaluations and improvements through the partnership between agencies, J.

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Key Solutions

APRIL 3, 2024

A guide to understanding the key roles and responsibilities within a proposal team and leveraging effective communication to ensure a successful proposal.

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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

APRIL 3, 2024

IntelliBridge has won a 5-year, $23 million contract with the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division to provide 24/7 operational response and intelligence support, performing quick response due diligence and imminent threat-to-life assessments originating from terrorist threats. “As one of the largest mission-centric contractors supporting the FBI’s national security and intelligence programs, IntelliBridge is proud to continue this [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

As Gen Z and younger millennial attorneys increasingly express dissatisfaction with their work and head for the exits, the lawyers who manage them must understand and attend to their needs and priorities to boost engagement and increase retention, says Stacey Schwartz at Katten.

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Redstone Government Consulting

APRIL 3, 2024

Unanet’s project management and general ledger budget features can be an asset when it comes time to develop provisional billing rates for the upcoming year. The information from the project budgets for the upcoming year can provide the data necessary to populate those areas of the general ledger budget so that billing rates can be calculated based on those same assumptions that project managers are using to maintain their project’s performance.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2024

Students attend community colleges for multiple reasons. Sometimes they drop out—for reasons that aren’t always entirely clear. Now, one of the largest community college districts in the country is determined to not only get a clearer picture but do something about it. Kern Community College District (KCCD) district in California is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to design and build a student-centered course planning tool to support the district’s Guided Pathways model.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the Point? To set the groundwork for future episodes, Nicole Owren-Wiest and Erin Rankin talk fundamentals: What is the purpose behind the often counter-intuitive and complex government contracts cost and pricing rules? What are the various price analysis techniques available to the world’s largest buyer of goods and services? “It All Adds Up” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest government contract accounting, cost, and pricing developments.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 3, 2024

In a world where present geopolitical tensions continue to worsen and the current global order continues to show signs of disintegration , sanctions have emerged as a key strategic tool to pressure third countries to comply with their international law obligations and further prevent additional violations of international agreements. With this comes disputes in a myriad of areas that international arbitration can help resolve.

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Import and Trade Remedies

APRIL 3, 2024

Our popular Annual Compliance Conference , which attracts over 4,000 in-house senior legal and compliance professionals every year from across the world, will be taking place from 30 April – 6 June (with a vacation break during the week commencing 27 May). We will be delivering our cutting-edge insights and guidance virtually on key global compliance, investigations and ethics trends.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

Peraton has appointed retired Lt. Gen. Scott Howell, former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, to its advisory board. Howell retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2021 after a 34-year military career, mainly in special operations, with extensive combat experience. His deployments around the globe included service in Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

Skanska and Washington's Department of Transportation closed a $1.4 billion bridge replacement contract that aims to update Seattle's Portage Bay Bridge so that it's up to "current seismic resiliency standards," the construction and development company announced.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

Core4ce’s co-founder, current chief financial officer and managing partner Mike Morehouse has been appointed CEO, effective April 5. Morehouse is involved in Core4ce’s corporate merger and acquisition strategy. As a member of the board of managers, he helped shape Core4ce’s business strategies to set the company on a trajectory toward growth and innovation, the company [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

A pharmaceutical company's executive and his cousin on Wednesday pled guilty to trading on information they acquired through the company's partnership with Eastman Kodak Co. about a government loan the photography giant was set to receive during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

RealmOne has appointed Jeremy Gage as senior vice president to oversee delivery and new business expansion in the Northern Virginia intelligence community. RealmOne is a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital. With over 25 years’ experience in the IC, Gage will lead RealmOne’s growth and operations in Northern Virginia. He served most recently as an executive [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

Environmental group Friends of the Earth slapped the U.S. Department of Energy with a complaint in California federal court seeking to unravel the agency's $1.1 billion award for the continued operation of the state's last remaining nuclear power plant.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

Sandeep Shilawat Vice President of Cloud Technology, Octo Sandeep Shilawat established the Cloud Center of Expertise for Octo, an IBM Company, prior to IBM’s acquisition of Octo. In this role, he now helps drive awareness of IBM as a leader in hybrid cloud and AI with U.S. federal agencies. He also worked with IBM’s government [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

A Third Circuit judge on Wednesday wondered whether a former Philadelphia mayor's order requiring contractors to pay dues to "city-approved" unions was now moot, given the new administration's assurances that it won't be implemented, as contractors urged the court to find that the scrapped rule should be banned by law.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

Tahera Zamanzada Vice President of Digital Transformation, ICF This year, Tahera Zamanzada established and began leading ICF’s Digital Platforms team, overseeing technical solutions across 10-plus technology platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks and Snowflakes. Her team, including data scientists, engineers and developers, focuses on improving and simplifying IT systems for clients using new and unique [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

A pair of construction industry trade groups urged a Texas federal court to preserve their challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor rule that revises prevailing wage calculations for federally funded projects, arguing that the rule injures both them and the firms they represent.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 3, 2024

On March 27, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced that Gamma Healthcare and three owners agreed to $13.6 million to settle allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations. Two of the owners—Jerry W. Murphy and Jerrod W. Murphy – are barred from participating in federal healthcare programs for 15 years. The claims, brought under qui tam whistleblower provisions by physician and healthcare clinic owner Bradley Bibb M.D., accuse Gamma Healthcare and the Murphys of

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

Federal Circuit judges struggled Wednesday to understand ambiguous terms in a company's contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for post-hurricane power restoration, indicating that neither party had clearly explained if the contractor has a valid $14 million claim for additional work needed.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 3, 2024

Contractors feeling beset by false claims act lawsuits, feel that way for good reason. The number of cases launched by the Justice Department reached an all-time high last year: 500 cases. How come? For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Perkins Coie partner Alexander Canizares. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin You’ve compiled these and 500 cases.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

An insurance company has asked a federal court to force companies connected to an insolvent contractor to hand over more than $38 million to compensate for costs it covered for unfinished jobs.

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

Four years after temporary pandemic telework policies were put in place for federal employees, a bipartisan pair of senators are seeking stronger agency oversight of the practice as return-to-office calls heat up. The Telework Transparency Act from Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, would require agencies to collect data on telework and monitor how the policies affect both agency performance and decisions on federal property.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has tossed a non-governmental organization's lawsuit seeking $7.5 million from the U.S. government for K9 bomb-sniffing work in an area of Afghanistan that housed foreign embassies, saying the government never agreed to guarantee payment.

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GovLoop

APRIL 3, 2024

1. Understand Generative AI’s Potential and Pitfalls The public release of GenAI tools — chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators such as DALL-E — late in 2022 drew the world’s attention to AI. By January 2023, ChatGPT had 100 million monthly active users , making it the fastest-growing consumer software application in history. It quickly became clear that GenAI offers great possibilities, but also significant risks.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

A company excluded from a U.S. Postal Service explosives detection contract told the Federal Circuit on Wednesday that a claims court judge hadn't justified his ruling that a conflict of interest stemming from the company's previous work for the service couldn't be mitigated.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 3, 2024

In WashingtonExec’s “Meet the Management Team” video series, we introduce some of the executives in GovCon, their roles and how they work together on a shared mission to achieve companywide goals. In this segment, WashingtonExec’s Amanda Ziadeh is joined by the Acentra Health leadership team: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO Meghan Harris, President & Chief Operating Officer [.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

A former senior appraiser for the Internal Revenue Service was appropriately fired for golfing on company time, a federal appeals court affirmed Wednesday.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

Attorneys for beekeeper groups in an appeal over a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision on insecticides have asked the Ninth Circuit to award nearly $750,000 in legal fees after a ruling that hammered the EPA but left the agency's decision intact.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

Contractors performing construction, alteration or repair work on government buildings should have to give the U.S. Department of Labor more detailed information about the deductions they take from workers' wages, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general told the agency in a letter publicized Wednesday.

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