GovCon & Trade
JANUARY 18, 2024
We are looking forward to presenting on Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence , or FOCI , during a webinar hosted by MD APEX on February 7. In an increasingly global economy, for those companies interested in doing classified work for the U.S. Government it is vitally important to understand what constitutes FOCI and how such concerns can be mitigated.
FedScoop
JANUARY 18, 2024
Federal employment standards for artificial intelligence-trained employees are burdensome and end up discouraging workers who are knowledgeable in the emerging tech from seeking such jobs, lawmakers and witnesses said during a House Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation subcommittee hearing Wednesday. AI-trained employees who have been upskilled and certified through intensive training programs rather than earning a degree from a four-year institution can be considered
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Whistleblower Network News
JANUARY 18, 2024
In December, the United Nations held the tenth session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP10) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Atlanta. The Conference is the largest global anti-corruption gathering. Every two years, the Parties to the Convention meet to review its implementation and discuss how to improve international cooperation and to better prevent and tackle corruption.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Balan Ayyar , founder and CEO of software developer Percipient.ai , has joined the board of directors of Serco Inc. “His unique blend of military leadership and entrepreneurial success in the technology sector makes him an outstanding addition to our board,” said Tom Watson , Serco Inc. CEO and previous Wash100 awardee.
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ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Astroscale 's U.S. business has secured a $25.5 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to build a small satellite capable of conducting uninterrupted refueling missions in geostationary orbit. The Astroscale Prototype Servicer for Refueling will be designed to carry and transfer hydrazine directly to client spacecraft, Astroscale U.S. said Wednesday.
FedScoop
JANUARY 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence will ultimately be a “net positive” for “efficiency and access in the financial markets,” Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said Wednesday. But the financial sector needs to keep in mind that the technology “comes with risks.” During a webinar with the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, Gensler spoke of the “American affinity for centralization” in everything from cloud providers to search engines.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 18, 2024
Chris George has been named president and general manager of Intel Federal LLC. The Intel Federal business is part of Intel’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer. George will report to Intel Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group, Greg Lavender. In his new role, George [.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Seven GovCon industry leaders have joined the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s board of directors to provide direction, strategic guidance and business oversight as INSA works to drive collaboration to advance national security priorities. INSA said Wednesday six of the newly elected board members will serve three-year terms while one will serve a two-year term.
FedScoop
JANUARY 18, 2024
The acquisition arm of the National Institutes of Health has again started sending out the first round of notices for an embattled $50 billion IT contracting vehicle known as CIO-SP4, following dozens of sustained challenges to the solicitation in the summer. NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ) posted a notice Wednesday that it began sending out new notices to successful and unsuccessful offerors the week of Jan. 8.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 18, 2024
A Seventh Circuit judge on Thursday pressed counsel for a home healthcare company and the plaintiff that won a judgment finding the company violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act to show what evidence in the record supported a lower court's reliance on a spreadsheet of claims to award nearly $6 million in damages.
Whistleblower Network News
JANUARY 18, 2024
On January 18, leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto appeared on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the seven whistleblower reforms that are most urgently needed in 2024. Kohn previously outlined the reforms in an article for the National Law Review. “All seven of these reforms have strong bipartisan support,” Kohn says.
SmallGovCon
JANUARY 18, 2024
Everyone has New Year traditions. Some do resolutions, some take vacations, some simply buy a fun new calendar. Here at SmallGovCon we like reading the different federal contracting annual reports. These annual reports function as almost yearbooks or like a friend’s yearly holiday card that discusses all the highlights of the past year. These annual reports are a great resource for contractors to catch up on what a specific agency or tribunal has been up to, and plan for the year ahead.
AWS Public Sector
JANUARY 18, 2024
Note: Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. The Shared Responsibility Model can help relieve a customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages, and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities where the service operates.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services has released a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $1.5 billion recompete contract to provide information technology and cybersecurity support services for the Office of the Chief Information Officer at DOD. Offers are due Feb. 16.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
General Atomics ’ aeronautical systems business used an MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft to demonstrate its open standards-based autonomy architecture for unmanned combat air vehicles and a U.S. government-owned communications capability, dubbed Waveform X, during a flight test in November. The live test flight held at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.’s flight operations facility in El Mirage, California, used three L3Harris Technologies -built software-defined radios to support command
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Joe Corcoran , a business development executive with over 20 years of operations and sales experience, has joined Hitachi Vantara Federal as senior director of professional services and delivery. He will report to President and CEO Mark Serway and oversee business growth strategies, build project management frameworks and manage profit and loss functions for the company's professional services unit.
GovLoop
JANUARY 18, 2024
Imagine that you’ve lost your job. With bills to pay and perhaps a family to support, you go online to apply for unemployment benefits. Yet rather than take some comfort in the process, you struggle with a hard-to-use application form, confusing language and unclear directions. That’s not how government is supposed to help. In New Jersey, officials are finding ways to make agencies the resource they should be.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
A HigherGov analysis of government contracting activity showed that federal contracts awarded in fiscal year 2023 reached a record high of $765 billion, reflecting a 9.5 percent growth from FY 2022. The Navy saw the largest jump in contract awards in 2023, recording $154 billion.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Parsons Corporation has launched Cyberzcape Tracker , an artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered cybersecurity offering meant to protect critical infrastructure networks by combining passive monitoring and active threat neutralization capabilities. Parsons said Thursday that Cyberzcape Tracker had been subjected to pilot testing by a pair of utility providers in the Midwest, during which the cybersecurity solution analyzed their network threat environments then identified and neutra
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Dan Antal , general counsel for Rolls-Royce Defense and North America, will rejoin Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) in the same capacity on April 1. He will succeed the retiring Jerry Howe , who will continue to serve as an adviser at Leidos through March 15, 2025 to facilitate a smooth transition.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Scott Sanner , an information technology professional with over three decades of industry experience, has been elevated to chief operating officer from vice president of strategic growth at Iron Bow Technologies. He will be responsible for the expansion and delivery of company services, the Herndon, Virginia-based firm said Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Advanced Technology International will manage the Defense Industrial Base Consortium under an other transaction agreement the Department of Defense awarded to the non-profit research institution. The DIBC OTA will support rapid research and provide access to commercial offerings to help meet defense requirements and drive innovations. Register here to hear insights from defense and government officials and other researchers, experts and decision makers at the Potomac Officers Club's 10th An
Kluwer Arbitration
JANUARY 18, 2024
Assuring a speedy resolution of potential disputes is a very important concern for most parties entering into arbitration agreements. One means to ensure a speedy arbitration can be a fixed deadline for the arbitral tribunal’s decision. With a focus on Italian law –under which Article 820(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure fixes a 240-day time limit for all arbitration proceedings– this post examines whether arbitration agreements should contain fixed deadlines and reviews situations in which it
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Zhenia Klevitsky , former chief growth officer at Edgewater Federal Solutions , has joined cBEYONData as CGO, responsible for driving the professional services company's business expansion strategy. Klevitsky brings over two decades of experience in overseeing business development efforts, identifying and capturing new growth opportunities and expanding relationships with federal customers.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 18, 2024
A contractor and its insurer have settled a $10.5 million lawsuit seeking coverage for shoddy construction work on a school on a military base, according to a joint statement Thursday in Maryland federal court.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Dr. Randy Yamada is the Vice President of Booz Allen. He is responsible for directing the innovation and development of advanced sensor technologies, space exploration systems, and radio frequency electronics. He also manages Booz Allen’s engineering laboratories throughout the United States, which are dedicated to creating and advancing robotics, cyber-physical systems, and cutting-edge radio systems.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 18, 2024
Steve duMont President, GM Defense “We’re going into the new year with considerable unrest around the world,” said Steve duMont. “With an election cycle upon us with unknown outcomes here in the U.S., combined with more Continuing Resolutions and a political environment that has seen its share of internal conflict in recent months, the private [.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 18, 2024
A new Pentagon strategy aimed at boosting capacity and improving workforce shortages within the defense industry has left stakeholders yearning for more details on how supply chain limitations and potential budgetary shortfalls could affect its successful implementation.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 18, 2024
Mike Loomis General Manager of Federal Division, Nokia Mike Loomis is proud of the work his team is doing to help meet mission success for the public sector, especially for the defense community. 5G could significantly improve public sector communications, which largely relies on proprietary, expensive communications systems designed for voice. When drawing a parallel [.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 18, 2024
An organization representing residential property owners has urged a Colorado federal judge to keep alive its suit alleging that a popular ski town violated state and federal laws when it passed regulations limiting short-term rentals, arguing that the purported public purpose does not shield it from litigation.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 18, 2024
Zachary Jones CTO, Altamira Zachary Jones became the Altamira CTO with Altamira’s acquisition of Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc. in early 2023. He quickly got to work bringing a consistent and innovative technical direction to the combined company. Jones took 2023 to establish an IR&D process and find technical synergies between the two companies that [.
Art of Procurement
JANUARY 18, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – January 19th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 18, 2024
Leidos has appointed Dan Antal as general counsel, effective April 1. Antal, who currently serves as general counsel for Rolls-Royce Defense and North America, will succeed Jerry Howe, who announced his planned retirement. Howe will continue as general counsel until March 31, remaining in an advisory capacity for transition purposes through March 15, 2025.
Federal News Network
JANUARY 18, 2024
Part of that sigh of relief that you may have heard coming from the Pentagon when Congress passed the 2024 defense authorization bill was for no major new requirements for managing other transaction agreements (OTA) authority. The two provisions in the NDAA around OTAs were minimal, including asking the Government Accountability Office to report on the Defense Department’s spending through this process.
Government Contracts
JANUARY 18, 2024
A landowner's request for attorney fees related to a takings lawsuit against the city of Detroit was unreasonable because it included charges for work in several unrelated cases, a federal judge said.
The Coalition for Government Procurement
JANUARY 18, 2024
Accounting Corner: First Glance: Breakdown of the Alliant 3 Draft Solicitation Authored By: Leo Alvarez, Principal, Dylan Schreiner, Manager, and Molly Menoni, Senior Consultant ; Baker Tilly January 18, 2024 The highly anticipated and closely watched second draft of the Alliant 3 solicitation is finally here! After nearly a year since the release of the amended version of the first draft request for proposal (RFP), on December 8 th , 2023, the General Services Agency (GSA) released the second
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