GovCon Wire
JULY 16, 2024
Deloitte Consulting has won a potential $2.4 billion contract from the General Services Administration to help meet the submarine workforce and industrial base requirement.
Whistleblower Network News
JULY 11, 2024
On July 10, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), alongside 10 other senators, introduced the Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act , which increases protections for federal employee whistleblowers who provide information to Congress. The Act is endorsed by major U.S. whistleblower organizations, who believe that the reforms contained in the bill are long overdue.
FedScoop
JULY 17, 2024
The Treasury Department and an industry-led nonprofit on Wednesday released secure cloud adoption guidance for financial institutions, the culmination of a year-long effort that the agency’s deputy secretary called “critically important to our work on cybersecurity.” The suite of resources released by Treasury and the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council as part of the public-private Cloud Executive Steering Group is intended to address gaps called out in the department’s February 2023
Art of Procurement
JULY 11, 2024
For over a decade, one public-private partnership has worked to make lifesaving medicines available in the most remote parts of. The post Chasing a Common Supply Chain Objective: Saving Lives appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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FedTech Magazine
JULY 2, 2024
Government needs broad visibility into the activity of bad actors to fight ransomware. A lack of robust information sharing can lead to “a murky information environment, making it difficult for governments and industry to work together to combat ransomware at scale,” according to a report from the Institute for Security and Technology released in April.
Coleman Jackson, P.C.
JULY 15, 2024
LEGAL THOUGHTS – Failure to Comply-Potential Consequences for Paid Tax Return Preparers and their Customers COLEMAN JACKSON, ATTORNEY & LEGAL COUNSEL | Transcription of Legal Thoughts Posted on July 15, 2024 Topic: Tax Return Preparer Due Diligence Attorney Introduction: Welcome to Legal Thoughts my name is Coleman Jackson, and I am an attorney at Coleman […] The post Episode Three- Failure to Comply -Potential Consequences for Paid Tax Return Preparers and their Customers appeare
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Whistleblower Network News
JULY 2, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will “recognize and support” National Whistleblower Day on July 30 by pointing employees towards educational resources and programming on whistleblower rights according to a letter sent to National Whistleblower Center (NWC). In the letter, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael Williams highlighted a memo sent in April outlining available whistleblower protections for employees and contractors and listed other resources made available by the agency.
FedScoop
JULY 25, 2024
A bill that would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create detailed guidance for third-party evaluators that work with artificial intelligence providers was officially introduced Wednesday night in the Senate, now with bipartisan sponsorship. The legislation from Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., called the Validation and Evaluation for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (VET AI) Act , now counts Sen.
Art of Procurement
JULY 25, 2024
According to the New York Times, about 20 million containers move through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The post The Great Supply Train Robbery appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
The White House has tapped Microsoft and Google to provide free cybersecurity services to approximately 2,000 “critical access” hospitals in an effort to protect healthcare in rural parts of the U.S. Critical access facilities are located more than 35 miles from comparable facilities, making their continuous operation essential to residents and their need for security funding, assessments, tools and training great.
AWS Public Sector
JULY 2, 2024
Managing access to websites and safeguarding users from harmful content is a critical component of a layered cybersecurity approach, especially in educational settings. Schools and institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to provide a secure online experience for their students and staff. Traditionally, this has been accomplished through on-site web filtering appliances.
GovCon Wire
JULY 24, 2024
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s potential $2.8 billion foreign military sales request to purchase from the U.S. government follow-on logistics and sustainment support services for its air force’s aircraft fleets and existing platforms.
Whistleblower Network News
JULY 15, 2024
FBI whistleblower and whistleblower advocate Jane Turner is asking that whistleblowers and whistleblower supporters write in personal messages of appreciation to be delivered to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on National Whistleblower Day. Senator Grassley, co-Chair of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, will be delivering a speech at the National Whistleblower Day celebration on Capitol Hill on July 30.
FedScoop
JULY 11, 2024
The post White House asks agencies for updated zero-trust implementation plan appeared first on FedScoop.
Art of Procurement
JULY 18, 2024
Section 321 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 contains a small provision known as ‘de minimis,’ a Latin phrase. The post De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JULY 3, 2024
There exists a major disconnect between the trust most agencies put in their current cybersecurity strategies and their actual ability to defend themselves. While 88 percent of global IT and security leaders feel confident in their organizations’ ability to manage cyber risk, 51 percent report that more than half of their cyber incidents were due to poor cyber hygiene, according to an April study from ExtraHop.
AWS Public Sector
JULY 1, 2024
After responding to the increased need for online learning during the pandemic, the market for educational and professional learning content has continued to expand. The global digital education content market is predicted to jump from today’s $60 billion market value to a $180 billion in the next decade, according to FactMR. A growing list of educational organizations, including Kaplan, McGraw Hill, New York University (NYU), and Coursera, have turned to CreatorUp to meet the rising demand.
ExecutiveBiz
JULY 12, 2024
Raytheon has secured a U.S. Navy contract potentially worth $42.9 million to enhance the service branch’s radar signal processing capabilities. The cost-plus, fixed-fee contract has a three-year base period with options for two 27-month, one 18-month and 36-month periods, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
Whistleblower Network News
JULY 31, 2024
July 30 was National Whistleblower Day and whistleblowers, advocates and government officials gathered on Capitol Hill to celebrate. The National Whistleblower Day event ( available to rewatch on C-SPAN ) highlighted the contributions and sacrifices of whistleblowers and underscored the importance of continuing the deep American tradition of supporting whistleblowers.
FedScoop
JULY 18, 2024
The White House this week announced almost $100 million in commitments from government, academia and civil society to support government access to a diverse pool of emerging tech talent. The Office of Science and Technology Policy said in its Tuesday announcement that the National Science Foundation, U.S. Digital Response, a handful of universities and other institutions have pledged funding support for furthering artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies’ talent.
Art of Procurement
JULY 4, 2024
“Coke is everywhere. In fact, when I travel to the developing world, Coke feels ubiquitous. […] If we can understand. The post Coca-Cola’s Project Last Mile appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JULY 23, 2024
As the current market shifts, some agencies are looking for virtualization alternatives. Multiple paths forward exist for agencies seeking virtual representations of physical machines — including storage, networks and servers — to use resources more efficiently, whether they’re improving existing efforts or just starting out. Different agencies have different hypervisor, cloud migration, desktop virtualization and application modernization needs, so it’s important to understand which alternative
AWS Public Sector
JULY 9, 2024
Introduction About 4.5 million electroencephalogram (EEG) tests are performed in the US each year. That’s more than if every person in Oregon, Connecticut, or Iowa got an EEG. Compared to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, which use magnetic fields and radio waves to generate images of the structure of the brain, EEGs use wires placed on the scalp to record the brain function as seen through the electrical activity that the brain generates in the process of neurons in the brain sending sign
Federal News Network
JULY 31, 2024
Replicating the WeWork model for sensitive compartmented information facilities, known as SCIFs, could increase small businesses participation in defense contracting, Moshe Schwartz, senior fellow of acquisition policy at the National Defense Industrial Association, told members of the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee last week.
Whistleblower Network News
JULY 17, 2024
On July 10, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Strauss Ventures LLC, doing business as The Grand Health Care System, and 12 affiliated skilled nursing facilities (collectively, the Grand) agreed to pay $21.3 million to settle accusations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal health care programs for therapy treatments that were unreasonable, unnecessary, unskilled or that did not occur as billed.
FedScoop
JULY 11, 2024
A new bill from two of the Senate’s most influential lawmakers on energy policy calls on the Department of Energy to leverage artificial intelligence to advance its science and security missions. The Department of Energy AI Act from Sens. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., and Lisa Murkowksi, R-Alaska, would require the DOE secretary to establish an R&D program centered on the aggregation and training of AI datasets, the deployment of advanced computing platforms and infrastructure, the development of sa
Art of Procurement
JULY 12, 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 – July 12th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JULY 18, 2024
Before the advent of cloud computing and self-service tech, IT professionals often drowned customers in tech jargon. But the industry’s evolution has brought a new way to interface with technology. Today, tech is intuitive and a lot more user-friendly. A toddler can master a tablet in minutes without any instruction. If it’s on, most toddlers understand the tablet’s common features in about 30 minutes or less.
AWS Public Sector
JULY 23, 2024
The tech industry in the state of Texas is booming, with a growing demand for skilled workers in cloud, information technology (IT), software development, and data analytics roles. According to the Dallas Federal Reserve, high tech represents almost 5 percent of Texas’ gross domestic product (GDP) and more than 9 percent of employment. The tech sector in Texas has added jobs at an average annual rate of 4.7 percent over the last decade, more than double the overall state job growth rate.
Federal News Network
JULY 18, 2024
Joy Sturm, partner, Hogan Lovells Joy Sturm, partner at Hogan Lovells , joins Off the Shelf for a briefing on the proposed BIOSECURE Act that would reshape biotechnology supply chains serving the federal government. The proposed legislation would prohibit the federal government from contracting with certain Chinese “companies of concern.” The prohibition would cover contracts, grants, and subcontractors.
SmallGovCon
JULY 12, 2024
If you have ever looked into socio-economic certifications through the SBA or “set-asides” as some call them, you undoubtedly have run into SBA’s certify portal. It certainly is a big part of the small business federal contracting landscape, with likely massive numbers of site visitors a day. However, it will soon be updated, causing a pause on new applications very soon.
FedScoop
JULY 25, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a reshuffle of its technology, data, AI and cybersecurity responsibilities Thursday, mainly moving portfolios from the Assistant Secretary for Administration to other components. Under the new organization, the departmentwide chief technology, data and AI officer roles will move from the Assistant Secretary for Administration — which houses the Office of the Chief Information Officer — to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Info
Whistleblower Network News
JULY 15, 2024
Whistleblowers from OpenAI have filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company is silencing employees from sharing concerns with the public and federal employees about its AI technology through its employment contracts. In a letter filed with the SEC, representation for the whistleblowers called for a federal investigation into OpenAI’s policies, demanding changes to ensure a culture of transparency and accountability as the industry races to d
FedTech Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has expanded its Shields Up initiative with the launch of the Shields Ready campaign to improve situational cyber resilience governmentwide. Shields Ready complements Shields Up by enabling both the public and private sectors with tools, resources, policies and guidelines for mitigating cybersecurity incidents when they happen.
GovCon Wire
JULY 31, 2024
The General Services Administration has released the list of 1,383 awardees under the small business set-aside track of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus contract program. GSA said Tuesday it plans to issue formal awards and notices to proceed for the OASIS+ Small Business contract by mid-August.
Federal News Network
JULY 9, 2024
The Senate Armed Services Committee has introduced an amendment that would give the Defense Department components more authority to purchase alternative cybersecurity products and services. Senate Armed Services Committee leaders filed their version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2025 on Monday, which was passed behind closed doors last month in a 22-3 vote.
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