Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Pentagon’s massive contract to overhaul the military’s system for moving military members’ belongings from one duty station to another has cleared its latest technical hurdle and is finally ready to start being used for moves, company officials involved with the multibillion dollar contract told investors Tuesday. A new round of IT integration testing, conducted in January, proved “successful,” said Stuart Bradie, the president and CEO of KBR.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A decade after releasing its landmark national cybersecurity framework, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Monday released version 2.0 , an updated document that emphasizes governance and supply chain issues for both public and private sector entities. The new guidance, which outlines “high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organization … to better understand, assess, prioritize and communicate its cybersecurity efforts,” adds a sixth core function — “govern

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence can be a valuable military tool, but several top military officials and industry experts said this week that they believe it will work best only if humans remain involved in its use. Speaking at WEST 2024 in San Diego, several officials talked about the coming use of AI in the Navy’s future hybrid fleet, a combination of manned and unmanned vessels.

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For WashingtonExec’s Top Pricing Execs to Watch in 2024, we identified the best of the best in building proper pricing models for success, bringing strategic thought leadership to each opportunity, and putting long-term growth and strategy first. Based on their accomplishments, impact on business goals and vision for the near-term future, these execs bring exactly what the GovCon community needs to empower competition and success.

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

On February 8, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC , a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower case with widespread implications for the ability of whistleblowers to seek anti-retaliation protections under federal whistleblower laws. The Supreme Court ruled that whistleblowers do not need to prove retaliatory intent in order to be protected under SOX.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sarah Storelli, left, interviews Valerie Singer during the fifth episode of the AWS Behind the Cloud vodcast. The education industry witnessed rapid transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by student-centric, flexible learning. The industry made great strides in the digital divide, but there are still challenges that education leaders seek to address.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The spy agency’s cyber director will be replaced by David Luber, deputy director of the Cybersecurity Directorate and former executive director of U.S. Cyber Command.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE With a growing number of dams approaching their design service life, dam safety engineers are looking for ways to mitigate the risks related to public safety, aging infrastructure and rising maintenance costs. Modernizing dam monitoring and maintenance practices with digital advancements, including the latest automated condition monitoring solutions, drone-captured reality modeling and digital twins, are giving public sector dam operators to

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Federal agencies face a wide range of cybersecurity threats, including ransomware, insider attacks and phishing attacks. Some of these threats come from relatively new vectors such as Internet of Things devices. Others are much older and elemental, including memory safety. As far back as 1996, when Phrack magazine published an article by the hacker Aleph One titled “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit,” the world has known about memory safety vulnerabilities and how malicious actors can exploi

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This week’s guest on Off the Shelf is Jessica Tillipman, associate dean for Government Procurement Law & Government Contracts Advisory Council Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Government Contracts Law & Policy at The George Washington University Law School. Jessica Tillipman The GWU Law School’s Government Procurement Law Program is considered the preeminent program of its type in the world.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

National Employee Appreciation Day is the first Friday in March, which this year falls on March 1. Here’s a few ideas to help you honor the occasion. Take a moment to think about each person and communicate thanks. An individualized note can mean a lot. Recognize an employee at a meeting. Consider a creative gesture like a photo collage for the team that points out employee contributions.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Candy Bishop, formerly senior director of capture and business development at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as vice president of enterprise capture, according to a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over three decades of industry experience in business development and account management.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A new bipartisan Senate bill seeks to improve the U.S. pipeline for jobs in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies through the development of a workforce framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The “ AI and Critical Technology Workforce Framework Act ,” introduced by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., would direct NIST to create a workforce framework for AI and assess whether other critical or emerging technology areas might also bene

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The whirlwind of artificial intelligence tools in 2023 proved the government is eager to embrace the technology as soon as possible. An overwhelming 99% of agency leaders agree investing in safe and effective AI is essential to fulfilling their mission, according to a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of ICF.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Marlin McFate , a more than 25-year technology industry executive, has joined data security software developer Cohesity as f ederal chief technology officer and chief information security officer. He most recently served as CTO for the public sector at Riverbed Technology.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The fix is in for federal small business contracting. And this fix is actually a good one. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, are trying to correct a misunderstanding of congressional intent when it comes to how and when agencies should consider price when reviewing proposals for contracts.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Government Accountability Office report released in December raised some concerns about federal agencies’ ability to prepare for and respond to cyberthreats. Twenty of 23 agencies failed to meet cybersecurity incident response requirements laid out in Executive Order 14028, specifically in their investigation and remediation capabilities. A follow-up memo to the May 2021 White House directive laid out a tiered maturity model for agencies to follow.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Space Systems Command has begun seeking concept papers for a potential five-year, $99 million broad agency announcement to develop, deliver and sustain cyber technologies designed to defend space assets from emerging threats.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security is launching a “hiring sprint” to build a team of 50 artificial intelligence experts for its new “AI Corps.” “Now is the time for tech experts to make a real difference for our country and join the federal government,” the agency’s Chief Information Officer Eric Hysen said in a news release announcing the sprint Tuesday.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Building a diverse workforce is about more than ensuring that different demographic groups are represented. There is increasing evidence in the global business community that companies with greater diversity in their employees significantly outperform those with little diversity. The same is true of federal agencies.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

U.S. Army Chief Information Officer Leonel Garciga has been named to Executive Mosaic’s prestigious Wash100 list for 2024. Garciga’s bold approach to information technology modernization and his spirit of catalyzing innovation within the Army have earned him his first Wash100 Award. Vote for Garciga as your favorite 2024 Wash100 Award winner at Wash100.com !

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro had a few choice words for contractors. The Department of the Navy is putting its contractors on notice to deliver ships, aircraft and submarines on time and on budget. Del Toro said it is time for contractors to spend more money on the future. "You can't be asking for the American taxpayer to make even greater public investments while you continue, in some cases, to goose your stock prices through stock buybacks, deferring promised capital investments," Del Toro s

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On February 2, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) sent a letter to Andrea Gacki, the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), expressing concerns about significant delays in the implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Improvement Act. The three senators, who were instrumental in leading the Senate to its unanimous passage of the Act at the end of 2022 , wrote that “We were proud to introduce and pass

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to include Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, in the 2024 roster of Wash100 Award recipients in recognition of his exemplary leadership of the McLean, Virginia-based satellite communications company and his commitment to innovation. Vote for Desch as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition!

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Federal Emergency Management Agency Office of the Chief Information Officer has tracked scores of employees bringing government mobile devices abroad, including to countries like China and Iraq, without authorization, according to a document obtained by FedScoop. The issue was highlighted in a DHS inspector general’s report published last July that pointed to concerns about how the emergency management agency handles the security of government-issued mobile devices.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Government agencies have a lot riding on improving their constituents’ customer experience (CX), and they understand the consequences. That’s why the White House made CX a federal priority starting with an Executive Order issued in 2021, which recognized that every public interaction with government is an opportunity to build or lose trust, and why state CIOs have ranked CX a top priority every year since then.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With Jo Ann Bjornson on board as V2X's chief human resources officer and senior vice president, the company is focusing on reinvigorating its brand, scaling its capabilities and bolstering its workforce. Executive Mosaic spoke with Bjornson, a former Leidos executive, about her vision for the future of the company’s workforce, how V2X is approaching its talent acquisition and why mission matters in a competitive market.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Proposed cybersecurity rules that would grant the government “full access” to contractor IT systems in the wake of a cyber incident is causing heartburn among industry groups. The groups are also objecting to the tight cyber incident reporting deadline in proposed cyber rules. They also oppose requirements to use Software Bills of Material (SBOMs). Agencies released the two proposed cybersecurity rules for information and communications technology (ICT) contractors last fall.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a recent webinar hosted by GovSpend Relationship Manager and SLED expert Paige Mockler, procurement professionals were shown how to leverage GovSpend’s public sector intelligence to meet their procurement goals. The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Potomac Officers Club’s symposium on all things space domain is fast-approaching: the 5th Annual Space Summit will be held on March 5 at the Hilton-McLean in Virginia. At the event, the U.S.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has proven to be a critical partner and resource over the past five years for federal cybersecurity. But as CISA enters the second half of its first decade, the cyber agency and its Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative should focus on better governmentwide coordination and tougher security standards, a panel of federal IT officials said this week.

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In government contracting, we usually judge leaders’ success by their company’s growth, mission success and reputation. But shouldn’t we also ask how good they are at turning others into leaders? For Mac Curtis, making leaders out of his team is a big sign of his leadership success. Five leaders once a part of Curtis’ leadership teams are [.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a five-year, $80.5 million task order from the U.S. Navy to design, produce and deliver MK 710 torpedo system test sets for the submarine force. The MK 710 TSTS will be used to verify the integrity and operational readiness of MK 48 torpedos before their delivery to the service branch, SAIC said Thursday.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Defense Department is increasingly turning to Other Transaction Authority contracts (OTAs) as a mechanism to fund research and development projects. Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7 billion. While fiscal 2023 isn’t available yet, HigherGov, a government market intelligence company, estimates that DoD had over 1,200 active OTAs worth about $23.6 billion.

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GovCon Chamber of Commerce

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every year, federal government buyers actively search for thousands of small business vendors who are ready to meet their procurement needs, ensuring projects are completed efficiently 'on spec, on time, and on budget'. As they seek out trustworthy small business partners, your small business profile will come under scrutiny. Your marketing assets are the face of your company – especially your 6-second Capability Statement, your 5-10 minute Capabilities Briefing deck , DSBS profile , compa

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tria Federal, an information technology and advisory services provider, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of technology leader John Cho as its first chief technology officer and Brian Wagner, a public affairs officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, as vice president of marketing and communications.

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