Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“My name is Reality Winner. I’m an airman, a veteran, and I was convicted under the Espionage Act.” With these opening lines, delivered straight to camera by Winner centered in close-up, the documentary Reality Winner establishes why it is being re-released in a revised form: Reality’s voice can now be centered in the telling of her story. Reality Winner , directed by Sonia Kennebecker, was previously released in 2021 in an earlier form and was then titled United States vs.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 2PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 Training Certificates It has been almost seven years since the White House issued Presidential Policy Directive 40, setting out the federal continuity policy “to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability through Continuity of Operations (COOP), Continuity of Government (COG), and Enduring Constitutional Government (ECG) programs, ensuring the resilience and preservation of government structure under the United States Con

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 26, 2023

“We can’t say we inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow if we’re ruining the planet.” – Tim Guy Brooks, Head. The post The LEGO Sustainability Saga appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International With its broad national security role, the DOD has been a pioneer in the development of numerous innovative cybersecurity solutions.

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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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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Lance Spencer , client executive vice president for defense at AT&T , leads the company’s efforts to help the Department of Defense modernize its operations with 5G offerings. Spencer recently sat down with ExecutiveBiz for an Executive Spotlight interview, during which he discussed the immense potential of 5G, its ability to transform the way the military uses technology and the challenges that may be faced in its development and deployment.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In a pilot physical therapy program run by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Asheville, N.C., veterans work to save a medieval village from a fire-breathing dragon. “While they’re tracking the dragon, they have to keep it in their line of sight,” says Caitlin Rawlins, deputy director of clinical tech innovation in the VA’s Office of Healthcare, Innovation and Learning.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | Training Certificate It is hard to believe that ChatGPT isn’t even a year old yet, when you look at the tidal wave of new apps that have been released in its wake. After decades where the phrase “artificial intelligence” was sufficient, commentary in the public sphere has already moved to the next level – generative AI.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This is part of a series of WNN exclusives on whistleblower awards paid out by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to wildlife whistleblowers. From late 2019 through 2022, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued twenty-one whistleblower awards to individuals who provided high-quality information about wildlife crime. The existence of these awards has not been previously made public and details about them were made available to Whistleblower Network News in response to a Freedom o

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Defense Information Systems Agency has added four companies to a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide satellite-based services and capabilities to the U.S. Space Force.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Michael Garrett , a retired U.S. Army four-star general, was added to the board of directors of Nano Dimension , a provider of intelligent machines for the fabrication of additively manufactured electronics. He brings to Nano Dimension experience in serving as commanding general of the Army Forces Command-- a role that capped his almost four decades of service with the Army.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A top White House cybersecurity official says the “conversation is being started” around sweeping new cyber requirements for federal IT contractors. One rule published in the Federal Register this week includes a provision that would mandate some key contractors report cyber incidents to the government within eight hours. Another aims to standardize cybersecurity requirements for unclassified information systems across government.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A digital twin is a digital replica of a physical asset or system, which can be used for various purposes including simulation, analysis, and optimization. In the government sector , digital twins can be particularly useful in optimizing the performance of essential infrastructure, such as transportation networks, power grids, and water systems. Services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as AWS IoT Core , Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ), and Amazon SageMaker can be used to collect

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Friday, October 13, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In 2022, the Department of Defense created a cross-functional team to accelerate the adoption of 5G and future-generation wireless networking technologies, laying the foundation for new opportunities to implement innovative solutions to military needs. The potential is there for 5G (and beyond) to remake the integration and interoperability of the different DoD domains – air, land, sea, space, and cyber – as envisioned in DoD’s Joint All-Dom

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Mongolia’s economy is dominated by large state-owned mining companies that control much of the country’s wealth. But what they do with that money remains hidden. A series of recent scandals shows just how little accountability there is. To tackle this problem, the country has proposed wide-ranging legislation , including an anti-corruption package with measures to standardize the operations of Mongolia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and ensure they follow consistent rules throughout processes

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Josh Petty, general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 General Counsel Group. The 4×24 leadership program offers its members, who represent impactful organizations within the government contracting industry, a space to come together with top federal officials to consider critical U.S. missions.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Susan Penfield , chief technology officer at Booz Allen Hamilton and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said the 2024 issue of the company’s Velocity magazine explores the opportunities and challenges associated with harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in support of government missions. As part of this year’s edition of Velocity, Penfield and John Larson , an executive vice president and AI practice lead at Booz Allen, talked about key issues related to AI transformation in a video interv

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Government employees don’t operate in a vacuum. It takes teamwork — and a lot of it — to keep agencies operating, meeting missions and providing for constituents. That’s why it’s crucial to build a culture of trust, but when it takes only seven seconds to make 11 assumptions about someone, that’s not much time to make a solid first impression, said Tiana Sanchez, author of “Undefeatable” and “The Upside of Failure,” during the recent N extGen virtual training summit.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The education sector has gone through a transformative technological change in the last few years. First, the pandemic created a rise in e-learning solutions, as teachers and students adopted digital platforms for communicating, teaching and learning, and managing academic information. These solutions show that students all over the world can get quality education over the internet.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Agencies today are faced with the challenge of modernizing legacy IT solutions to streamline workflows and increase the speed and quality of their services. But the push toward standardization must also take into account that people do their best work when they have the best tools.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Malaysia has no shortage of scandals on the mismanagement of public funds. The Scorpene submarine affair and the more recent Littoral Combat Ship scandal centered around mismanagement within defence procurement. The infamous 1-Malaysia Development Berhad case (1MDB) – likely the largest global financial scandal to date – led to the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Najib Razak.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

RTX (NYSE: RTX) has agreed to sell its Raytheon’s cybersecurity, intelligence and services business to an undisclosed buyer for approximately $1.3 billion. The company announced the move in its third-quarter earnings report published Tuesday. Reuters reported that private equity firm Blackstone was the prospective purchaser of the business.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The 8(a) program. It is a piece of federal jargon that has come to symbolize how the government helps small businesses get their fair share of contracting dollars. Now the underlying assumptions of the 8(a) program are under challenge in court. Could this be the end? For analysis, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Managing Partner of Centre Law and Consulting, Barbara Kinosky.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The General Services Administration leases about 200,000 vehicles in domestic and overseas locations — nearly one-third of the entire federal nontactical fleet. Tracking the costs and maintenance needs for these cars and trucks is a critical task. Real-time data derived from modernized fleet management tools “enables GSA Fleet to save money by tackling maintenance issues early, before they can become the cause of a major repair,” says Crystal Philcox, assistant commissioner of GSA’s Office of Tr

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As the number and size of satellite constellations in orbit increase, satellite ground segment architectures must modernize to maintain agility, operational excellence, and economic viability. Virtualizing ground segment architectures can reduce dependency on mission-specific hardware components and drive forward this modernization. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud enables ground segment engineers to explore the possibilities of these architectures with services and features built specificall

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Friday, October 20, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Communications security is one of the foremost priorities in any battlespace. This is one reason the Department of Defense is keen on building out 5G capabilities, because of its ability to create secure private networks anywhere it is deployed. But 5G’s capabilities extend beyond creating private networks on the fly.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – October 20th, 2023 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the nonprofit biological resource center and standards organization American Type Culture Collection a contract with a total value of $333 million to support the Biological and Emerging Infections Research Resources Program.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Army has been talking for many, many years about the need to simplify its IT networks. But officials say they’re now poised to make more progress than ever before, largely because of some recent organizational changes in how the Army funds and buys information technology. It also doesn’t hurt that network simplification is a major priority for the Army’s new chief of staff.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The winners are in! We are proud to announce the winners of the Annual NextGen Public Service Awards for superior public service and achievement. The awards recognize deserving individuals selected from the public service community for their intelligence, exuberance and dedication to improving and invigorating government. The award categories and respective winners are listed below.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Technologies like containerization and serverless help customers migrate and modernize their applications. In this blog post, learn how public sector customers use offerings from Amazon Web Services (AWS) like AWS Lambda , Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) , Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to build modern applications supporting diverse use case

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate The federal government has a complex hiring process, governed by a host of regulations and policies. Difficulties in hiring young people and individuals with valuable skills such as cybersecurity, and the impact of the pandemic on all employers, has modernizing HR is at the forefront of many agency leaders’ minds.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A recent report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) whistleblowers continue to face high rates of retaliation. The VA is one of the largest federal agencies with 400,000 employees and hundreds of medical facilities. Those who witness fraud or malpractice within the agency are able to use the VA Whistleblower Protection Program, which is meant to protect against retaliation and protect the identity of the complainant.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The U.S. Army has posted a draft request for proposal for a follow-on multiple award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will be used to procure research and development capabilities in support of Space and Missile Defense Command missions. According to the SAM.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Federal contractors will need to closely monitor a government acquisition website for directives that ban products and services due to security concerns, similar to the Huawei ban, under a new rule published this month and set to go into effect in early December. The Defense Department, the General Services Administration and NASA published an interim rule last week laying out how contractors will need to comply with orders from the Federal Acquisition Security Council.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Every day, organizations across our country are impacted by cyber intrusions, many of which affect the delivery of essential services. Security professionals and business leaders alike recognize the need to protect their customers, employees and enterprises against this threat, which raises a simple but challenging question: Where to start? We at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency know that no organization can adopt every possible cybersecurity measure or solution, but every or

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As the education field continues to evolve, data-driven decision making is an essential strategy to transform teaching and learning practices and unlock new opportunities for student success. From personalized learning and student performance analysis, to resource allocation and school improvement planning, data-driven education has the potential to revolutionize the way we support educators and teach our students.

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