FedScoop
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The Global Engagement Center, which tracks and exposes foreign disinformation narratives in foreign countries, will see its authority to operate expire Dec. 24.
AWS Public Sector
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Announced at AWS re:Invent 2024, Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts offers a comprehensive, Partner-managed solution for resilient cloud-connected edge computing that extends the reach of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the most remote and geographically dispersed environments on earth. AWS Outposts typically run connected to a parent AWS Region for resource management, access control, and software updates.
Public Procurement Intl
DECEMBER 5, 2024
On December 9, 2024, in celebration of International Anti-Corruption Day, GW Law’s Christopher Yukins joined the International Anti-Corruption Academy to discuss IACA’s future contributions to the global efforts to prevent and fight corruption and promote compliance in public procurement. IACA has allowed us to explore how risk-based anti-corruption strategies complement – and strengthen – public procurement outcomes.
GovCon Wire
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Senate voted 85-14 on Wednesday to pass a defense bill that would authorize $895.2 billion in fiscal year 2025 funding for national defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, would authorize $849.9 billion for the Department of Defense and $33.
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Federal News Network
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Federal contractors never expected Congress to get a full-year appropriation done last week. So they’re generally pleased about the avoidance of a government shutdown. That gives the government 11 weeks to deal with other lingering procurement issues. Stephanie Kostro, executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.
ExecutiveBiz
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Siemens energy business has secured a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to prototype and integrate a large energy storage system on a U.S. Navy platform.
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FedScoop
DECEMBER 4, 2024
In a post-Colonial Pipeline world, DOT and TSA leaders say they’re pursuing a cross-sector approach to protecting operational technology.
Public Procurement Intl
DECEMBER 8, 2024
Photo: Jorge Lscar On December 9-11, 2024, GW Law’s Christopher Yukins met with classes of Professor Laurence Folliot Lalliot at the University of Paris – Nanterre, to discuss U.S. and comparative public procurement.
GovCon Wire
DECEMBER 29, 2024
CGI has appointed Celso Puente, a marketing communications executive in the federal market, as vice president of global analyst relations. Puente announced his new role at the IT consulting firm in a LinkedIn post published Friday.
Federal News Network
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Over the past four and a half years, the Defense Department has faced at least four separate rounds of bid protest litigation challenging its multi-billion dollar overhaul of the militarys household goods moving system. Its now gearing up for a fifth. The latest legal challenge is highly unusual in that it comes more than two years after DoD made the award the protesters are challenging.
ExecutiveBiz
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Leidos has been awarded three contracts worth over $30 million in total by the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue enhancing and expanding the Department of Defense Network, or DODNet, under the Defense Enclave Services, or DES, program. The Reston, Virginia-based company said Thursday the three task orders are part of the 10-year, $11.
Whistleblower Network News
DECEMBER 13, 2024
The Administrative False Claims Act of 2023 is set to pass in Congress before the end of the year as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA). The bill, introduced by whistleblower champion Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), will target smaller-dollar frauds against the government by raising the statutory maximum of a fraud claim that can be handled administratively from $150,000 to $1 million.
FedScoop
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A handful of federal agencies missed deadlines to complete Internet of Things cybersecurity requirements called out in a 2020 law, a new congressional watchdog report found. The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 required the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Management and Budget to develop guidance for securely procuring IoT — networked technology and devices typically connected to physical objects like buildings, vehicles and other infrastructure.
Government Contracts
DECEMBER 20, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Friday rejected claims a settlement requiring around-the-clock care for a woman with autism is too impractical to be enforced, reversing a lower-court decision and handing a victory to the Pennsylvania woman's family.
GovCon Wire
DECEMBER 27, 2024
The U.S. Marine Corps and Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific will set up a technology lab in late January to allow engineers and other experts to develop prototypes into scalable, deployable 5G networks to support warfighters operating in denied and contested environments, USNI News reported Tuesday.
USFCR
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Contractors Secure Federal Infrastructure Contracts The federal government continues to invest heavily in infrastructure, from rebuilding highways and bridges to constructing military facilities and disaster recovery projects. For contractors in the construction and infrastructure sectors, staying informed about trends, technologies, and opportunities is essential to securing federal contracts.
ExecutiveBiz
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Microsoft has secured a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $69.5 million from the U.S. Army for the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, or JWCC. Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability Contract The Department of Defense said the project will run through Oct. 19, 2028, while work sites and fund allocations will be determined once the orders are placed.
Whistleblower Network News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
On December 12, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published final rules for its Auto Safety Whistleblower Program , over eight years after a Congressionally-set deadline to do so. Whistleblowers shine a light on critical safety issues and play a vital role in safeguarding our nations vehicles and roads, NHTSA Deputy Administrator Sophie Shulman said.
FedScoop
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The FBIs ability to fully embrace artificial intelligence has been hamstrung by funding constraints and various workforce and technical challenges, according to a new watchdog report. The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General said the FBI has demonstrated initiative and taken steps to integrate AI capabilities in a manner consistent with guidance from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Government Contracts
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a suit Wednesday accusing CVS, the nation's largest pharmacy chain, of knowinglyfilling invalid prescriptions for powerful opioids and ignoring internal pleas from its pharmacists as it allegedly put profits over safety.
GovCon Wire
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a potential $11.76 billion contract modification to produce and deliver 145 units of Lot 18 F-35 full-rate production aircraft to the U.S. armed forces and allies.
FedTech Magazine
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The Office of Personnel Management wants agencies to design remote and telework workspaces based on their respective missions and employees positions and capabilities, rather than using an ineffective, cookie-cutter approach. A recent memo issued by OPM offers agencies guidance on establishing remote and telework policies and programs in the face of increasing pressure from Congress to justify the status quo.
ExecutiveBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Verizon Frontline and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, have collaborated once more to track Santa Claus yearly journey. The company said it will ensure the NORAD Track Santa initiative will have reliable connectivity so people, especially children, can see where Santa is on Dec. 24.
Whistleblower Network News
DECEMBER 3, 2024
On December 2, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Gen Digital Inc. (formerly known as Symantec Corp.) paid $55.1 million in a False Claims Act (FCA) judgement stemming from a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit. Following a four-week bench trial, Gen Digital was found liable “for making knowing false claims to the United States when it mispresented its commercial sales practices during the negotiation and subsequent performance of a General Services Administration (GSA) contract,” acc
FedScoop
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The cyber agencys SCuBA guidelines were developed after pilots with 13 agencies and continue a post-SolarWinds cloud strategy.
Government Contracts
DECEMBER 3, 2024
An insurance company and two executives issued bogus insurance policies purporting to offer over $250 million in coverage to companies and homeowners, according to an indictment announced by the Manhattan district attorney Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Textrons Bell subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $557 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide spares, repair and logistics support for rotors and drive components of the service branchs H-1 light attack helicopter fleet.
SmallGovCon
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Every five years, the government is required by 41 U.S.C. § 1908 to adjust the statutory acquisition thresholds for inflation, such as the Micro-Purchase Threshold, Simplified Acquisition Threshold, and others. It just so happens that the last such adjustment occurred back in 2020. As such, the government is once again looking to increase these thresholds in light of the inflation that has occurred over the past five years.
ExecutiveBiz
DECEMBER 19, 2024
When we last caught up with cBEYONData Chief Growth Officer Zhenia Klevitsky at the beginning of the year, she had just joined the company and shared with us both her perspective on the government contracting landscape and some of cBEYONDatas key capabilities.
FedTech Magazine
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The Department of Defense wants a smooth transition into the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 era after spending the past four years reworking its original rule. One way defense agencies can make future contracting easier is by working with industry partners offering CMMC-compliant services once the security requirements begin appearing in agreements, which is expected to occur as soon as early 2025.
FedScoop
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Federal workers have a new way to learn about how their agencies can purchase IT goods and services through large-scale contracts offered by the National Institutes of Healths acquisition arm. NIHs Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center launched NITAAC University in early December as an online, self-paced educational program to teach employees throughout the federal government how to use its governmentwide acquisition contracts, or GWACs, for IT acquisitions.
Government Contracts
DECEMBER 3, 2024
A North Carolina mental health care agency has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve civil claims that it defrauded the state's Medicaid program by billing for nonexistent services, the state's attorney general and incoming Gov. Josh Stein announced.
GovCon Wire
DECEMBER 13, 2024
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a firm-fixed-price contract worth $987 million for F-16 fighter jet support to the Taiwanese military. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is a foreign military sales agreement, but work will be performed at the company’s facilities in Reston, Virginia, until May 2034, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
SmallGovCon
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Shuttering of the government (or parts of the government) following appropriations lapses has become an increasingly common phenomenon in recent times. Continuing resolutions have become a recurring stopgap measure. Funding lapses interrupt the usual predictability of government operations, which harms both agencies and federal contractors that are left in limbo with stop work orders.
ExecutiveBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Raytheon, an RTX business unit, will provide modeling and simulation, or M&S, services to the U.S. Army and Navys missile defense systems for exercises and training under a potential $191.1 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency.
Redstone Government Consulting
DECEMBER 16, 2024
FAR Council proposes increasing acquisition thresholds for inflation, reducing administrative burdens while impacting contractor procurement policies.
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