FedScoop

MAY 20, 2024

A Department of Homeland Security team dedicated to deterring the use of weapons of mass destruction is now studying how artificial intelligence could exacerbate these kinds of threats. In the wake of a report announced last month, one of the top officials with that office is pointing to a series of potential strategies to confront the ways AI tools could be deployed — even inadvertently — to synthesize dangerous chemical and biological materials.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded small woman owned business Mistral a sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the acquisition of Ground Organic Loitering Aerial Munition – Echelon II, or GOLAM II, munitions. The contract, which has a maximum value of $73.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The SLED industry is among the prime revenue drivers for government contractors. State, local and education (SLED) government agencies spend billions of dollars on goods and services, contributing nearly 10 percent to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

L3Harris Technologies has received a $34 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force to support modernization work on the AN/ALQ-172 Countermeasures program. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will perform work at its facility in Clifton, New Jersey, through Sept. 8, 2027.

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FedScoop

MAY 20, 2024

Ahead of Login.gov’s biometric validation pilot this month, General Services Administration officials are working with internal tech equity experts as part of an effort to reduce algorithmic bias in light of concerns that advocacy groups have raised about the technology. While facial recognition, a type of biometric validation, is commonly used with law enforcement agencies , GSA sees the Login.gov pilot as a way to further defend against sophisticated fraud and cyber threats.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

General Dynamics Information Technology established secure connectivity during an April demonstration of a cloud-based digital network it developed for Space Systems Command as part of Project Enigma.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

Austal’s U.S. business arm has christened the 19th Independence-variant littoral combat ship, USS Pierre, which was named in honor of South Dakota’s capital. Larissa Thune Hargens, a South Dakota native and daughter of Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., sponsored the event, Austal USA said Sunday.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

NASA has awarded four companies indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $6 billion combined as part of the third on-ramp process to the fourth iteration of the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition program.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

The journey to Windows 10 in 2019 was rocky for a number of federal agencies, especially given the looming deadline for Windows 7 end-of-support in early 2020. FedTech reached out to federal IT leaders and asked them what they learned from that experience that might apply to the move to Windows 11. We talked to Maj. Gen. Jacqueline D. McPhail, director of architecture, operations, networks and space, U.S.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

IBM will help U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services develop and maintain software systems for the Verification Information System under a contract potentially worth $279 million from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Federal Procurement Data System entry.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

As agencies prepare to increase adoption of generative artificial intelligence, they will need to simplify how they source, deploy and manage AI infrastructure. While evaluating generative AI’s many possibilities, agencies will likely consider a mix of cloud, edge and on-premises infrastructure. Cloud-based services for AI include Dell’s APEX for generative AI, which improves agencies’ ability to scale computing power based on real-time data use, says Paul Perez, technology senior fellow for Del

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $756 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce additional battery equipment for a ground-based hypersonic strike weapon system. The contract also covers the provision of logistics and systems and software engineering services in support of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system, the defense contractor said Friday.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

The Department of Defense is reopening the solicitation for Artificial Intelligence Talent 2.0 to on-ramp additional vendors. Vendors that meet the qualifications for AI Talent 2.

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Government Contracts

MAY 20, 2024

A Connecticut laboratory claims that GlaxoSmithKline defrauded federal health insurance programs for billions by hiding for 40 years that Zantac decomposes into a carcinogen even when just sitting on the shelf, in a lawsuit filed Monday in Pennsylvania federal court.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

Microchip Technology, a Department of Commerce-backed semiconductor manufacturer, has expanded its product portfolio with the launch of SAMD21RT, a radiation-tolerant Arm Cortex-M0+ based 32-bit microcontroller.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a draft request for proposals for a 10-year follow-on contract for professional, technical and scientific services in the weather domain. According to the draft RFP published Friday, the ProTech 2.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed with an average of $5,051.61 last week, a 0.39% increase from the previous week and a continuation of a five-week growth trend. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that collects and presents stock market data from 30 essential companies in the government contracting industry.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Jun Choi, formerly CEO of information technology services company NextNow, has joined IT Concepts as senior vice president of human capital services, according to his LinkedIn post. He will oversee employee, partner and customer engagement to support the company’s strategic growth and human capital management initiatives.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

Carahsoft Technology and Iron Mountain have inked an agreement allowing the former to offer the latter’s machine learning-based content services platform to the government sector.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Nicole Robinson, formerly chief growth officer of Comtech Telecommunications, has been named president of DataPath, a communications platforms provider. “The potential is unlimited for this satellite communications technology and solutions powerhouse and I’m thrilled to kick off with the team this week,” Robinson wrote in a LinkedIn post published Sunday.

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Redstone Government Consulting

MAY 20, 2024

For cost accounting under Federal government contracts, including your contracts that are not CAS covered, deferred compensation must be measured based on the requirements of CAS 415. FAR 31.205-6 (k) requires that the cost of all deferred compensation, other than pension costs, be measured, assigned, and allocated in accordance with CAS 415, Accounting for the Cost of Deferred Compensation.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Valkyrie Enterprises has acquired Ship to Shore in a transaction that expands its corrosion-inhibiting products and remediation support services for the Department of Defense and other national security customers and industrial sectors. Virginia-based Valkyrie said Wednesday the corrosion-inhibiting products and related capabilities of S2S will be part of the company’s sustainment and modernization business unit.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

MAY 20, 2024

On May 14, 2024, the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) published the final versions of Special Publication (SP) 800-171 Revision 3, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations and its companion assessment guide, NIST SP 800-171A, Revision 3 (collectively, “Rev. 3 Final Version”). While the Department of Defense (DoD) is not requiring contractors who handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) to implement Rev. 3 for now,

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index capped the week with a fourth consecutive daily gain. The modest gains in four of five trading sessions were enough to close a fifth consecutive winning week. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, closed at $5,051.61 or +0.38% week-on-week.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 20, 2024

Lee Bader, chief growth officer at Royce Geo, has won WashingtonExec’s 2024 Chief Officer Award for Chief Growth Officer in the Private Company (annual revenue greater than $20 million and less than $100 million) category. WashingtonExec on May 10 unveiled the winners of the Chief Officer Awards, an annual program that celebrates influential and innovative [.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 was signed into law at the end of 2023. Among its various mandates were that the Department of Defense cultivate private 5G networks at its service branch bases and outposts.

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Government Contracts

MAY 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice urged a Virginia federal judge Friday to preserve its case accusing Google of monopolizing key digital advertising technology, arguing the search giant is misconstruing a case that is really about forcing customers to use its ad exchanges, not about who the company does business with.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 20, 2024

Accenture Federal Services has completed its acquisition of Cognosante after announcing its intent to buy the company on April 15. Cognosante provides technology solutions for federal government clients, including healthcare programs supporting veterans, active-duty military, patients, beneficiaries, providers and payors. With the acquisition, Accenture Federal Services creates a new federal health portfolio for its business. [.

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Government Contracts

MAY 20, 2024

SolarWinds Corp. is calling out the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for what it deems to be a "troubling pattern" of overstating its case against the government contractor, saying that a recent admission by the agency "dooms" claims that the company knew a customer had been hacked and failed to report it.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 20, 2024

Charles Worthington, chief technology officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, has won WashingtonExec’s 2024 Chief Officer Award for Chief Technology Security Officer in the Government category. WashingtonExec on May 10 unveiled the winners of the Chief Officer Awards, an annual program that celebrates influential and innovative executives in government and industry in the C-suite.

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Government Contracts

MAY 20, 2024

A former Internal Revenue Service agent, his brother and four other defendants have pled guilty to participating in a scheme that netted more than $3 million in fraudulent COVID-19 pandemic relief loans.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 20, 2024

Rachele Cooper, CEO of Aptive, has won WashingtonExec’s 2024 Chief Officer Award for CEO in the Private and Public Company (annual revenue greater than $100 million and less than $500 million) category. WashingtonExec on May 10 unveiled the winners of the Chief Officer Awards, an annual program that celebrates influential and innovative executives in government [.

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Government Contracts

MAY 20, 2024

A Michigan federal judge has ordered that Green Charter Township can't prevent Gotion Inc.'s upcoming battery components plant, in which the company plans on investing more than $2 billion, from moving forward.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

General Motors‘ defense business arm has collaborated with Mistral to equip GM Defense’s light tactical utility vehicle with the latter’s Hero-120 loitering munition, a system co-developed with UVision to engage targets without exposing warfighters to direct enemy fire.

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Government Contracts

MAY 20, 2024

A fringe benefits company and two of its executives have agreed to pay over $4 million to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they mismanaged funds meant for government contractor employees' benefits, the federal government told a Maryland federal court.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 20, 2024

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a $30 million contract to modernize and replace equipment on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s real-time tsunami detection and warning system.

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