Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
Five pointers can help government contractors scrutinize their existing contracts for protections like equitable adjustment and duty-free entry clauses, which may help insulate them from tariff-related cost increases, say attorneys at Covington.
Kluwer Arbitration
APRIL 9, 2025
As part of the 2025 Paris Arbitration Week (PAW), Latham & Watkins, in collaboration with Columbia Law School, hosted two interactive panels examining key procedural issues in international arbitration from the perspectives of arbitrators, clients, and counsel. The first panel, moderated by Samuel Pape (Latham & Watkins), explored the whether, why, and how of facilitating settlement in arbitral proceedings.
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WashngtonExec
APRIL 9, 2025
Steve Hull, Leidos Leidos and Moveworks are partnering to boost government workforce efficiency in the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Their collaboration brings agentic AI digital assistants that make decisions and automate routine tasks to government agencies, with built-in security and compliance. As commercial sectors adopt the technology, this partnership helps agencies do the same with confidence. “For decades, Leidos has been at the forefront of helping government agencies achieve their
Kluwer Arbitration
APRIL 9, 2025
(Pictured (LR): Harriet Foster, Kiran Nasir Gore, Rostislav Kats, Camille Ramos-Klee, Ali Al- Khasawneh) Among the many highlights of PAW 2025 was the session organized by Young ITA (part of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration )and Wolters Kluwer , DIY: The Essential Toolkit for Arbitration Success. The interactive program brought together a diverse set of seasoned practitioners to discuss the toolkit for success in international arbitration practice.
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GovCon Wire
APRIL 9, 2025
The State Department has approved Australia’s foreign military sales request worth about $1.04 billion for AIM-120C and AIM-120D advanced medium range air-to-air missiles, or AMRAAM, and related equipment and support services.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 9, 2025
Kathleen McCarthy, SAIC Science Applications International Corp. has named Kathleen McCarthy as its new executive vice president and chief human resources officer, effective May 12, 2025. McCarthy will report to CEO Toni Townes-Whitley and lead SAICs human resources, employee engagement and talent acquisition efforts. She will focus on advancing the companys workforce strategy to attract top talent and support government customers in achieving their missions.
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Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 9, 2025
The U.S. Army has named 15 companies that will compete for task orders under a $7 billion hybrid contract for the design and construction of military facilities. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Galveston, Texas, serves as the contracting activity, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded 15 construction companies out of 35 bidders slots on a$7 billion contract for design-build and design-bid-build horizontal construction task orders.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 9, 2025
Exiger has won a position on a potential 10-year, $919 million blanket purchase agreement awarded by the General Services Administration to facilitate the acquisition of supply chain risk illumination tools and analytic support services.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee wrote to four federal agencies seeking answers to how they plan to ensure that Elon Musk isn't using his position at the Department of Government Efficiency to exploit them and enrich himself in violation of federal ethics rules.
AWS Public Sector
APRIL 9, 2025
A resilient space architecture uses commercial solutions integrated with government-owned capabilities to create an environment that is secure, redundant, dynamic, and distributed across multiple orbits, satellites, ground stations, networks, and mission operations centers. The architecture is designed to recover from disruptions and maintain mission-critical operations.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved law firm Cross & Simon LLC's request to withdraw as counsel to former Team Systems International executives in an adversary case brought by the insolvent government contractor's Chapter 7 trustee.
Kluwer Arbitration
APRIL 9, 2025
On 13 January 2025, the government of Nepal promulgated an ordinance ( Ordinance ) amending the Nepalese Arbitration Act, 1999 (Arbitration Act). The Ordinance purports to modernise the arbitration framework, introducing provisions designed to enhance efficiency and align with international standards. While the changes in these provisions represent a positive step forward, the decision to introduce an ordinance appears unusual, as the Nepali Parliament is fully functional and the coalition-major
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
Massachusetts car dealership magnate Herb Chambers and several of his companies have agreed to pay $11.8 million to resolve allegations that they falsely certified their eligibility for pandemic-era aid under a U.S. Small Business Administration program, civil prosecutors said on Wednesday.
SmallGovCon
APRIL 9, 2025
In federal contracting, often times the agencies are given a good amount of leeway in their evaluations and award decisions, so long as the agency followed the solicitation terms. In a recent GAO decision, an agency was reminded by the GAO that it must follow exactly what it wrote in its solicitation when making its award decision. Specifically, past performance criteria must be followed by the agency in evaluation past performance examples.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
A Florida federal judge has ordered expedited discovery in a Mexican oil company's case over alleged improper fund transfers, after determining there is "more than a mere possibility" of Quinn Emanuel being conflicted out of representing itself in the litigation due to prior representation of the company.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 9, 2025
On April 4, four whistleblowers were awarded $6.6 million in their longstanding lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The whistleblowers claimed they faced retaliation for blowing the whistle to the FBI on Paxtons alleged misuse of power. The judgement was issued by Travis County Judge Catherine Mauzy who stated that the whistleblowers proved liability by a preponderance of the evidence.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
A federal judge in New Jersey has rejected a Black-owned investment company's request to disqualify a Connell Foley LLP attorney from representing the state in the investment firm's bias case, reasoning that there is nothing showing the law firm or the lawyer previously represented the company.
USFCR
APRIL 9, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has recently launched four programs to help U.S. agricultural producers promote and sell their goods internationally. This action follows U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brook Rollins latest announcement to visit six international marketsBrazil, India, Japan, Peru, Vietnam, and the United Kingdomto boost American agricultural exports and expand markets for U.S. farmers, ranchers, and producers.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
A group of companies and individuals on Wednesday unveiled a campaign aimed at correcting what theysee as misuse of the New Jersey state judicial privacy measure known as Daniel's Law, saying amendments to the law have opened the door to a "money chase" for third parties.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 9, 2025
In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with whistleblower Abdel Badoura, who exposed the price gouging of Australias supermarket duopoly, Coles and Woolworths. For over a decade, Badoura worked in the consumer goods sector, directly negotiating prices with Coles and Woolworths. In a 2024 Senate testimony, he blew the whistle on the supermarket giants price gouging and market power abuse, outlining their tactics and practices which he witnessed first-han
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
FedInsider
APRIL 9, 2025
Zero Trust is more than a technology shift, its a cultural one. This week on Feds At The Edge , our expert guests explore how agencies can successfully implement Zero Trust by focusing on people, leveraging AI, and understanding risk at every level. With over 600,000 employees and 1,000 applications, the USPS faced a massive challenge. Heather Dyer, VP & Chief Information Security Officer for the USPS, shares how clear communication, continuous monitoring, and behavioral insights were key to
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
In Real Time Medical v. PointClickCare, the Fourth Circuit recently clarified that state law claims can rest in part on violations of a federal law that prohibits electronic health information blocking, expanding legal risks for health IT companies and potentially creating exposure to a range of competitive implications, say attorneys at BCLP.
Scottish Government Procurement
APRIL 9, 2025
Our National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) quarterly bulletin April 2025 provides the latest information on our Category A, collaborative frameworks and shares our ambitions for the enhancement of services provided by the National Collaborative Procurement Division, in an aim to realise even greater value for the public sector in Scotland.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
A sharply divided Eleventh Circuit refused Tuesday to grant a full-court rehearing ofa paneldecision ending a sex discrimination suit from Georgia Tech's longtime women's basketball coach, prompting a rebuke from the court's Democratic-appointed judges who said the court has "just failed to learn the lesson" that educators deserve a right of action under Title IX.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 9, 2025
Jeremy Wensinger, V2X V2X Inc. has won a $62 million contract to continue supporting the operational readiness of the COBRA DANE radar system in Alaska. The company said the award reinforces its role as a key provider of readiness, capability upgrades and engineering support for the high-powered radar system used by the U.S. Space Force. “V2X has been the trusted partner in ensuring the continuous operational readiness of COBRA DANE,” said Jeremy C.
Government Contracts
APRIL 9, 2025
Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 9, 2025
CACI International has landed a potential five-year, $66 million task order under the U.S. Navys SeaPort Next Generation contract vehicle to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division. The company said Monday it will deploy engineers and experts to meet NSWC Carderocks complex technical demands and program requirements.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 9, 2025
Abdel Badoura spent over a decade working for suppliers wanting to sell their products within Australian supermarkets. In 2024, he blew the whistle on what he described as the tactics and practices Australias supermarket duopoly, Coles and Woolworths, deploy to price gouge suppliers and, ultimately, customers. Badoura testified in April 2024 before a Senate select committee on supermarket prices.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 9, 2025
Government technology services firm EXPANSIA said developing and implementing an enterprise data strategy could help organizations address data sprawl-related issues, including data retrieval challenges and conflicting data, and facilitate the collection and protection of high-quality data needed to gain valuable insights for improved decision-making.
How to Crack a Nut
APRIL 9, 2025
The EU has published its AI Continent Action Plan (COM(2025)165). The Plan aims to enhance the EUs AI capabilities by promoting initiatives around five key areas. One of those key areas concerns the promotion of AI in strategic sectors and, in particular, in the public sector and healthcare. The Plan includes some high level initiatives that are, however, not new.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 9, 2025
L3Harris Technologies has collaborated with Kuiper Government Solutions, an Amazon subsidiary, to provide integrated, resilient satellite communications, or SATCOM, services to governments and militaries across the globe. Enhancing SATCOM Capabilities L3Harris said Monday the strategic partnership aims to develop and deliver hybrid SATCOM enhanced with high-speed and low-latency global connectivity.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 9, 2025
Sreenivas Ramaswamy has been selected as the chief innovation officer at NobleReach, a nonprofit organization fostering private-public partnerships for talent and innovation in the national interest. NobleReach said April 3 the new CIO will oversee the company’s technology, talent and investment efforts for national and economic security. Who Is Sree Ramaswamy?
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 9, 2025
By Ryan McCullough, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, ShorePoint Federal agencies and industry face an escalating cybersecurity challenge: threats are growing more sophisticated, security requirements are evolving rapidly, and agencies must stay responsive to emerging risks while maintaining progress toward cyber modernization.
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