ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Technology company Cisco recently announced its intent to acquire Robust Intelligence, a member of the Cisco Investments portfolio and the developer of a platform that works to provide security for artificial intelligence models.
Whistleblower Network News
AUGUST 27, 2024
On August 1, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the long-awaited rules for its corporate whistleblower award program. The DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program will offer awards to individuals who blow the whistle on corporate crimes under the jurisdiction of the DOJ which are not covered by other whistleblower programs. After the DOJ first announced their plans to implement a whistleblower award program in March, advocates were hopeful that the program would be modeled o
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ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Alaska Native Chenega Corporation is dedicated to preserving national security through its wide array of business with the U.S. military, the Intelligence Community and various civilian agencies. Sonia Mundra, who currently serves as president of Astraeus Operations — a Chenega subsidiary primarily focused on IT, cybersecurity and engineering — is deeply rooted in the business.
Federal News Network
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Defense Department is ready to start ramping up implementation of its planned overhaul to the military’s household goods moving system, including by conducting DoD’s first-ever long distance moves under the new contract structure, U.S. Transportation Command officials said Tuesday. The expansion of work under the up-to-$17.9 billion Global Household Goods contract (GHC), set for September, will mark DoD’s first attempt to use GHC outside of the short-distance, local moves it has been using t
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ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
TD SYNNEX, an IT distribution company, has named Alicia Lynch as its chief information security officer. Lynch, who shared her appointment in a LinkedIn post, brings to the Fremont, California-based company more than 25 years of cybersecurity experience across the private industry and government sector, including the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
Federal News Network
AUGUST 27, 2024
Tony Celeste, head of Ingram Micro Public Sector LLC and Promark Technology Inc. , joins Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion of significant trends shaping the federal IT market. Celeste offers his thoughts on digital transformation and best practices agencies and contractors can leverage towards IT modernization. He also addresses the role of AI and virtual reality in supporting federal IT mission requirements, including how agencies can effectively leverage these rapidly evolving capabi
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FedScoop
AUGUST 27, 2024
A former Technology Modernization Fund adviser and U.S. Digital Services engineer has been tapped as the new FedRAMP director, the General Services Administration announced in an internal email Monday. The appointment of Pete Waterman, who served at GSA as a senior technical adviser for TMF until earlier this year, was revealed to staff members by Lauren Bracey Scheidt, assistant commissioner of the agency’s Technology and Transformation Services Office of Solutions, and Eric Mill, GSA’s executi
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 27, 2024
Mattermost has named Leigh Dow, a marketing and growth executive, as chief marketing officer. The collaboration platform provider said Monday Dow will oversee Mattermost’s global marketing strategy, drive growth efforts, expand brand presence and advance the development of public-private partnerships and public policy to facilitate the delivery of mission information technology platforms to customers.
American City & Country
AUGUST 27, 2024
City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies. The company has more than 600 locations throughout the U.S.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 27, 2024
V2X (NYSE: VVX) has secured a contract to ensure the operational readiness of F-5 Adversary aircraft of the U.S. Navy. The company said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for F-5 maintenance is valued at $747 million and has a potential seven-year period of performance, including three 12-month options.
GovLoop
AUGUST 27, 2024
If you consider yourself to be an introvert, you may have at one point come across the misconception that introverts make poor leaders. The truth is, there is a lot of value in tapping into your authentic self and using that as your leadership strength. During the most recent New Supervisors in Government Community of Practice, Susan Schneider, Director of Anhinga Coaching, LLC, offered advice on how to manage more effectively based on your personality.
Scottish Government Procurement
AUGUST 27, 2024
Only two weeks to go until the Supplier Development Programme’s seventh annual Meet the Buyer North event , on 11 September at The Music Hall in Aberdeen. Meet the Buyer North 2024 is officially supported by The Scottish Government, Scotland Excel and Commercial and Procurement Shared Services, made up of Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, and Highland Councils.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Salesforce’s Government Cloud Plus – Defense dedicated software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service environment has achieved a Boundary Cloud Access Point connection and Department of Defense Impact Level 5 certification – the highest unclassified data security standard in the United States.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 27, 2024
Serco Inc. announced a new contract to manage repairs and upgrades for the backup electrical plant at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, supports missile warning, defense and space surveillance. The base is encased in ice for nine months of the year, making reliable power crucial. Serco will build [.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne has appointed Steve Stone as senior vice president of threat intelligence and managed hunting, a role responsible for driving innovation to the organization’s offerings.
GovCon Wire
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Defense Intelligence Agency is working on an artificial intelligence-powered system that once deployed will be able to quickly sift through vast amounts of data, perform intelligence analysis and help DIA analysts to focus on more complex intelligence tasks. This program has made significant progress thus far. But what’s next for MARS?
Kluwer Arbitration
AUGUST 27, 2024
“Small is Beautiful”, a collection of essays by the economist E. F. Schumacher, was published first in 1973, more than 50 years ago. Schumacher’s basic thesis was that the latest, shiniest or most complex technology was not necessarily the best option for developing countries. Instead, he argued in favor of a practical, more “people-centric” approach, later dubbed “ appropriate technology ”.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
A bank is seeking to permanently dismiss a suit accusing it of misleading an investor about its oversight of a U.S. Department of Treasury contract, saying despite amending its case three times, the investor hasn't connected any sustained stock loss to contract issues.
GovLoop
AUGUST 27, 2024
In today’s era of rapidly changing customer expectations , there are three primary ways that agencies using legacy approaches can fail to meet their constituent’s needs: Insufficient scalability: Surges in demand for government services can trigger long wait times as legacy systems struggle to scale up to handle the exponential increase in requests.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
A retired U.S. Navy admiral accused of accepting bribes from two contractors pushed a Washington, D.C., federal court to sever his trial from theirs, saying the pair appeared poised to pin any alleged misconduct on him.
GovLoop
AUGUST 27, 2024
According to a study released by Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, the number of ransomware attack claims worldwide in 2023, rose 73% as compared with 2022. Ransomware and other threats are showing no signs of letting up. If anything, bad actors are more determined, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to aid in their efforts to obtain sensitive data and hold your agency hostage.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently unveiled whistleblower awards program diverges in key ways from similar programs at other agencies, and individuals must weigh these differences and look first to programs with stronger, proven protections before blowing the whistle, say Stephen Kohn and Geoff Schweller at Kohn Kohn.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 27, 2024
V2X, Inc. has secured a $747 million single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The F-5 aircraft are vital in training naval pilots, offering adversary combat tactics and simulation capabilities. This advanced training prepares pilots for real-world scenarios, enhancing their combat readiness and skills. The F-5s’ role in aggressor training is key to maintaining the overall readiness of our [.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
Criminal investigations into Venezuela-related sanctions violations appear to be ramping back up since the U.S. government reimposed crushing trade penalties on the South American country's oil and gas sectors in response to an allegedly sham presidential election, according to experts.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Firefly Aerospace announced that its Blue Ghost lunar lander has arrived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for pre-launch environmental testing. The company said Monday that the spacecraft’s target launch date for the mission to moon is the fourth quarter of 2024.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 27, 2024
Bindi Patel Vice President of Contracts and Procurement & Corporate Risk Officer, ENSCO Bindi Patel successfully led the integration of ENSCO’s contracts and procurement teams. The convergence inspired more innovative solutions for both internal and external customers, as well as increased efficiency and cost savings companywide. She also facilitated an overhaul of ENSCO’s contractual and [.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Stephen Tyndall has been appointed vice president of pricing at Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, according to the executive’s LinkedIn post shared Saturday. In his new role, Tyndall will serve as a strategic pricing leader, managing the team tasked with developing and implementing pricing strategies to boost the company’s growth and profitability.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against a Hungarian national suspected to have run a multinational procurement network designed to help Russia obtain U.S. military-grade communications technology.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Nuclear Fuel Services, a BWX Technologies company, has received a one-year contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration to explore deploying a centrifuge pilot plant to establish a domestic uranium enrichment capability.
WashngtonExec
AUGUST 27, 2024
Amanda Christian Senior Vice President of Contracts and Subcontracts, CACI Since joining CACI a decade ago, Amanda Christian leveraged her passion for technology, analytics and continuous process improvement to drive transformative change at the company. In 2024, Christian was driven by this same passion as she readily assumed her new position effectively overseeing thousands of [.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Jay Meil, vice president of artificial intelligence at Science Applications International Corp., said training the “human element” to trust and operate models through data science literacy is the biggest challenge to the adoption of artificial intelligence in denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited impact environments, FedTech Magazine reported Friday.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
AUGUST 27, 2024
Tim Ferges presents “Creditor Claims in the Administration of Estates” at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s Estate Planning Summer Institute in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The post Creditor Claims in the Administration of Estates appeared first on McCarter & English, LLP.
ExecutiveBiz
AUGUST 27, 2024
RTX company Raytheon has booked a $26.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to work on the Creating Arrays for Strategic elecTro-optical, proLiferated and Exquisite program, which seeks to enhance focal plane arrays used for space applications.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
Courts and appeals boards have decided several consequential cases impacting government contractors this year, including determining whether software end-user licenses are procurement contracts and weighing in on when companies can protest alleged violations of a federal preference for commercial items. Here, Law360 looks back at the top government contracts-related rulings in 2024 so far.
Government Contracts & Global Trade
AUGUST 27, 2024
Bid protests are a fact of life in federal contracting. Learn how to navigate this complex process as both a protestor and intervenor. Experienced contracts attorney Maria Panichelli covers pre-award and post-award protests, debriefings, and strategies for success. More information The post Bid Protest Bootcamp: A Contractor’s Survival Guide appeared first on McCarter & English, LLP.
Government Contracts
AUGUST 27, 2024
Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.
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