Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 27, 2024

Maersk Line Limited, the company that chartered the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, was sanctioned by the Department of Labor (DOL) in July 2023 for retaliating against a whistleblower who raised safety concerns. The DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found that Maersk illegally fired a seaman who reported a variety of safety concerns to the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. From healthcare management and social safety net technology to managing vaccine sign-ups during the pandemic , governments simply need to buy IT better.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is easy to use—and that’s what makes the technology so exciting. But it’s important not to confuse ease of use with effortless deployment. The value of generative AI is inextricably linked to the technology’s reliability and traceability, as described in our earlier blog post, Generative AI: Understand the challenges to realize the opportunities.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 21, 2024

The last few years have not been kind to retailers. Inventory misalignment has dragged down revenue and working capital. Companies. The post Treasure Hunting with TJX appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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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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GovCon Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for proposals for the potential 10-year, $14 billion follow-on Integrated Healthcare Transformation contract. IHT 2.

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FedInsider

MARCH 14, 2024

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In today’s interconnected digital landscape, application programming interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between various applications and systems. However, with this increased connectivity comes heightened security risks, particularly concerning the protection of sensitive data in those APIs.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Dan Skinner , head of federal go-to-market at Material Security , began his career nearly three decades ago and has since garnered a wealth of technical and leadership experience. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz, Skinner assessed the ways in which the cybersecurity landscape has changed over the past few years and shared his insights on the role of the cloud on this transformation.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 22, 2024

Introduction Application owners are committed to developing new applications and enhancing existing ones rapidly as a top business priority. However, when it comes to mission-critical applications, whose availability is vital for business operations, owners must allocate dedicated time to design and rigorously test the resilience of their applications.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Agencies face an uphill battle to scan, convert, tag and secure documents ahead of the National Archives and Records Administration’s deadline for digitizing permanent government records in June. Although the time, labor and cost savings of digital records will be beneficial to agencies, the sheer volume of records is daunting, requiring federal IT leaders to tap into an array of technology solutions to get the job done.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Saif Rahman, CEO and co-founder of Quzara, said defense industrial base organizations looking to comply with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework should focus on having security visibility through auditing, monitoring and generating security logs to better understand the vulnerabilities they face. In an article published on Carahsoft.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 12, 2024

Bloomberg Government recently underscored something federal contracting data has been showing. In the last ten years, the number of small businesses doing business with the government has fallen by a third. Small companies staying in the market specialize in it. My next guest says the regulatory burden the government requires keeps non-specialized, so-called mom-and-pop business out of the market.

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FedScoop

MARCH 21, 2024

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Thursday that the agency is launching a privacy review of the country’s top airlines. Airlines can access several forms of personal information about passengers, including through apps, online purchases, software used by flight attendants , and, increasingly, biometric screening systems. While the Department of Transportation isn’t typically associated with investigations into digital rights violations, the agency says it has the authority to imp

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic is pleased to induct Jen Sovada , president of global public sector at SandboxAQ and chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4x24 Quantum Group , into the ranks of the 2024 Wash100. Sovada won her first Wash100 Award this year for her leadership and expertise in the emerging quantum field and for her work helping government customers understand and harness the power of quantum.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 19, 2024

Summary Highly regulated enterprises and government agencies still maintain critical applications operating on legacy mainframe systems. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 2023 report identifying critical federal IT legacy systems in need of modernization that were written in older languages, such as COBOL. According to GAO, reliance on older languages carries risks “such as a rise in procurement and operating costs, and a decrease in the availability of individuals with the

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2024

The Smithsonian Institution’s massive collection includes items too fragile to put on display or so complex that they’re difficult for scientists to study. Its Digitization Program Office takes these objects and creates 3D scans that preserve them for history, research and outreach to people who may not be able to visit the Washington, D.C., museums.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

The State Department has approved Poland’s foreign military sales requests worth $3.68 billion combined to procure short-, medium- and extended-range air defense missiles from the U.S. government. Poland has requested 821 Lockheed Martin-manufactured (NYSE: LMT) Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range missiles and associated logistics and program support under a potential $1.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Agencies will soon have more choices to buy commercial products from under the General Services Administration’s Commercial Platform program. GSA is expanding the number of providers from three to eight, including six new ones. Along with current platform providers Amazon Business and Fisher Scientific, GSA awarded spots on the next generation Commercial Platform Initiative (CPI) contract to: e-Procurement Services Grainger Noble Supply & Logistics Pacific Ink Social Glass Staples Four of th

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FedScoop

MARCH 27, 2024

Activities protected under the First Amendment, such as peaceful protests and lawful assembly, “may not be the sole basis for the use of” facial recognition technology under the Justice Department’s interim policy governing its deployment of the technology, the agency told a civil rights panel. In written testimony submitted to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last week, the DOJ shared details of its approach to using facial recognition technology, or FRT, including its interim policy, which

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 21, 2024

Bill Downer , vice president of national programs at Seagate Federal , believes “the edge is everywhere,” no matter where the data is collected and stored. He is a strong advocate for defending data at rest, and at Seagate, he leads the company’s delivery of secure data storage products to federal agencies. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz , Downer discussed Seagate’s most impactful partnerships, highlighted emerging cyber threats and shared his insights on zero trust

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 4, 2024

On February 22, 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted its first Federal Financial Services Artificial Intelligence (AI) Forum at Amazon HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, convening leaders from the public sector and financial services industry. AI has the potential to revolutionize the financial services sector by leveraging data to enhance customer experiences, reduce risks, mitigate counterintelligence, and streamline operations.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Upgrading to a 5G network is a simple matter for citizens; our carriers and phones do it for us. But when it comes to a government transition, there’s more advance work that needs to be done. The federal government’s move to 5G accelerated when the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 became law at the end of December 2023. The NDAA requires the Defense Department to develop private 5G networks at military bases and other DOD facilities.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary will continue to help the U.S. Navy design and provide engineering support for operational strategic and attack submarines under a potential $145 million contract modification. The award also extends technical, design agent and planning yard support services for the service branch, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 29, 2024

Two commercial space companies have agreed to work together on enhancing national security capabilities in the commercial space domain. Voyager Space and Palantir are using their abilities to help support and protect new technologies to be used on the International Space Station, and the soon to come Starlab commercial space station. I wanted to find out more about what this agreement means and get an overview of those involved, so I spoke to Matt Kuta, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating

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FedInsider

MARCH 25, 2024

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE When Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” was issued in May 2021, it included directives for agencies to establish several incident response and logging procedures, including sharing information on incident detection and response, by August 2023. In August of that year, the Office of Management and Budget issued Memorandum 21-31 setting specific requirements for agencies to meet, for which the Cybersecurity a

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 7, 2024

On March 7, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be rolling out a whistleblower award program this year. “We’re planning something new: a DOJ-run whistleblower rewards program,” Monaco announced in a speech at American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime. “The premise is simple: if an individual helps DOJ discover significant corporate or financial misconduct — otherwise unknown to us — then the individual could quali

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Key Solutions

MARCH 13, 2024

Stepping into a Proposal Manager role for the first time can be overwhelming and intimidating. Many proposal professionals learn on the job or through a trial-by-fire scenario. The “this is fine” meme comes to mind.

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FedScoop

MARCH 19, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service needs to pick up the pace on finalizing its IT modernization plans or risk falling short of the transformational potential it’s been afforded by a multibillion-dollar funding infusion, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. Of the nearly $80 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds appropriated to the tax agency as a whole, $4.8 billion has been set aside for business systems modernization while another $25.3 billion is ticketed for operations su

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Open source intelligence encompasses any publicly or commercially available information, and with today’s vast catalog of data from news websites, social media, broadcast television and more, it has grown into a prominent force in U.S. intelligence missions. The Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Intel Summit in September will cover a wide range of relevant intelligence topics.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 15, 2024

The effort to make buying cloud services easier for agencies and more in line with industry standards continues with yet another acquisition workaround. The General Services Administration issued its second acquisition letter in just over two years, giving its contracting officers permission to move closer to buying cloud services “by the drink,” or through a consumption based model.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 6, 2024

The use cases for artificial intelligence don’t stop multiplying in the government contracting industry and since its founding in 2021, AutogenAI has developed a new one: using AI to assist the proposal writing process. Noted business leader Elizabeth Lukas came aboard the company last fall as its Americas CEO. Recently, we sat down with Lukas to gain an understanding about AutogenAI’s unique offerings and inquire what the company’s performance tells us about the federal marketplace.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 19, 2024

On March 12, Dena J. King, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced that Family First Home Health Care, Inc. (Family First), a home health care agency in Gastonia, N.C., and its owner, Marion James, have agreed to collectively pay $600,000 to resolve claims brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA).

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

Better to be an early adopter than one scrambling to do everything at the last minute. That’s how Joe Powers sees it. As associate CIO for enterprise infrastructure solutions at the Office of Personnel Management, Powers is leading the agency’s rollout of Microsoft Windows 11. The new operating system replaces Windows 10, which will reach end of life in October 2025.

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FedScoop

MARCH 14, 2024

When generative AI tools exploded into the public consciousness, technology leaders at the General Services Administration made the decision to let agency workers “explore this space.” For longtime GSA CIO Dave Shive, that decision led to some eye-opening — and head-scratching — observations of the GSA workforce. But it also provided a foundation for what would inform the agency’s generative AI policy.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Brian Berger, president of Cytellix, said merging governance, risk and compliance with managed detection and response could enable organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture. “When companies combine GRC and MDR capabilities, however, they create a measurable and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity risk and compliance,” Berger wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 31, 2024

Congratulations to all the Chief Officer Awards finalists and nominees across industry and government! Join us May 10, 11:30 a.m. at The Hilton in McLean, Virginia, for an in-person event and luncheon. In the coming weeks, we will be posting Q&As with some of the finalists, so keep your eye out for that. Below are [.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 14, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection intends to recompete a multiple-award contract for the procurement of cloud computing services. CBP expects the acquisition effort to have a ceiling value of over $100 million and anticipates release of a solicitation for the planned indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by May 1.

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