Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals has issued its annual report for FY 2023, shedding light on how often contractor appeals reach a successful result, and what agencies are most frequently involved in contract litigation. The report shows that the Board disposed of 132 contractor appeals on the merits, and in 67% of these dispositions the Board found that the appeal had merit in whole or in part.

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Public Procurement Intl

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Gian Luigi Albano Gian Luigi Albano of Italy’s centralized purchasing agency, CONSIP, joined Keith McCook (a senior procurement attorney in South Carolina government) and GW Law’s Christopher Yukins on November 10, 2023 to discuss the law-and-economics of framework agreements (which in the U.S. system are known as “indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity” contracts).

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As public health resources shift away from the pandemic response, jurisdictions now seek ways to modernize their public health infrastructure to avoid previous challenges such as data fragmentation, incompleteness of health data, and lack of interoperability. Agencies, community leaders, and health professionals look to lessons learned and best practices from the COVID-19 pandemic as a starting point.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Pentagon will soon publish a rule to formally begin implementing the long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification regime. CMMC is intended to provide the Defense Department with a way to assess whether tens of thousands of contractors in its industrial base are meeting cybersecurity requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information (CUI) on their networks.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Agencies don’t always implement their continuous monitoring plans because that would require a new philosophy toward cloud security, according to Dave Hinchman, director of IT and cyber at the Government Accountability Office. Hinchman says cloud computing was an afterthought four or five years ago, but it’s starting to be seen as a way to easily meet federal cyber requirements and push updates to thousands of desktops using Software as a Service.

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Holland & Knight: Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Nov. 1, 2023, announced that cybersecurity readiness would be used as an evaluation factor for contracts involving the use of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A new General Dynamics Information Technology study has found that federal agencies recognize the potential role of artificial intelligence in defensive cyber operations, particularly in cyberthreat detection. Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts discuss the latest developments in the field.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The State Department has approved a potential $2.53 billion foreign military sale of M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment to the government of Romania.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Because of military aid to Ukraine and, presumably Israel, the U.S. defense industrial base is strained right now. Manufacturers of platforms and ammunition must deal with a list of regulatory and legal challenges. For more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with attorney Justin Chiarodo, a partner at Blank Rome. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And we think of the defense industrial base has strained in terms of capacity to manufacture what’s needed around the world and, you know, mi

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The explosive growth of Internet of Things devices has made development of edge infrastructure pivotal for real-time data analytics. As more data originates from various IoT devices and other sources that include industrial sensors — insights that enhance operations, customer experiences and safety measures — more can be processed. But as the edge gains prominence, it presents challenges due to the proliferation of point solutions, often spread across numerous endpoints, and the exponential grow

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Carahsoft Technology will serve as a master government aggregator for the federal business of Seerist to offer the latter’s artificial intelligence-based threat and risk intelligence service. Under the partnership, Carahsoft said Thursday it will market Seerist Federal’s Foreign Influence and Risk Index offering through its reseller partners.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Amentum is working on task orders from the State Department to provide training, professional development, engineering, design and build services under the Africa Peacekeeping Program. The company said Wednesday it received $165 million in awards to train the armed forces in the country of Benin and construct military bases for the Somalia National Army Danab.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Contractors brought protests to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) more than 2,000 times last year, up more than 20% from fiscal 2022. GAO sustained them at more than twice the rate of the year earlier, siding with contractors in about a third of the cases. For what’s going on, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with GAO’s Managing Associate General Counsel, Kenneth Patton.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

VPNs have long been federal agencies’ default for cloud connectivity, but the balance has shifted toward software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), security service edge (SSE) and secure access service edge (SASE). How should you choose the right connectivity option? Much will be based on agency factors such as size, application needs and mission objectives.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mitre and Microsoft have updated a community knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques that security professionals use to protect artificial intelligence -enabled tools with the addition of new vulnerabilities and case studies involving generative AI and large language models. Mitre Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems features updates describing the type of attack pathways in LLM-enabled platforms that could be used to build up defenses against malicious attacks involving AI too

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Department of the Interior has awarded General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business a potential 10-year, $2.54 billion contract to support the Indian Health Service’s health IT modernization effort. The award of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was announced through a notice published Wednesday on SAM.gov.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

On November 10, whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn , founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP and Chairman at the National Whistleblower Center , will be speaking at Georgetown University’s ECo Talks Series discussing the issue of Blowing the Whistle on International Climate Corruption. ECo Talks , which are presented by Georgetown’s Earth Commons, “bring together experts, thought leaders, and innovators to explore the most pressing challenges facing our environme

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Three years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are still dealing with its economic consequences. Currently, one of the main points of concern is the excessive level of public indebtedness and the risk it represents to economic stability and economic growth. This year the IDB published its flagship study Development in the Americas – Dealing with Debt: Less Risk for More Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

nLIGHT will continue developing a high energy laser prototype under the second phase of the HEL Scaling Initiative of the Department of Defense's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering. The phase two award now has a total value of $171 million after the DOD exercised additional options. Interested in learning more about the DOD's research and development activities?

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Joel Abrahams, former executive director at Axient, was promoted to the role of vice president of the Air Force business unit in the defense systems segment at the defense and civilian mission support company.

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FedInsider

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If we were to modernize the once popular “word cloud,” we would see phrases like “hybrid cloud,” and “zero trust,” always paired with terms like “unfunded mandate.” Thanks to the Infrastructure Act of 2022 that brought $1.9 billion in funds appropriated for cybersecurity, those word clouds are finally breaking up. This week on Feds At the Edge, we’re finishing up our conversation on combating cyber-crime by examining how agencies are optimizing the use of these funds, so state and local governme

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

There is a debate about whether courts and arbitral tribunals should be involved in the amicable resolution of disputes. Different jurisdictions deal with this issue in different ways. This post considers the approaches taken by courts and tribunals in Germany, England and Wales, and Singapore to examine whether courts or tribunals in these jurisdiction, on their own initiative, can actively seek an amicable resolution of a dispute by the parties.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Christopher Brooks , a U.S. Air Force veteran, has been named vice president of enterprise information technology solutions for the air and space forces business area at General Dynamics ' IT division, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Brooks most recently served as chief of the Air Force's network integration division and head of the operations division at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Global mission services company V2X hosted the Honor Our Veterans Breakfast on Tuesday in a display of gratitude toward the many company team members who have served, as well as the veteran population of the U.S. at large. Military service members past and present were offered a spread of fresh fruit, baked goods and other refreshments.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The U.S. General Services Administration has announced it will drop 23 properties across 16 states from the federal real estate portfolio, a move that it says will save the government more than $1 billion over the next decade.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Generally, by virtue of the principle of territoriality, the national courts of a State have jurisdiction only over persons and acts committed within the territory. In this context, the national courts of a State do not have jurisdiction to set aside an award or an order issued in the context of an arbitration whose seat is in another country. Indeed, only the courts of the seat have jurisdiction to resolve a set aside action against an arbitral award or order.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Guidehouse has confirmed its agreement to be acquired by a Bain Capital Private Equity affiliate for $5.3 billion. The company’s executive team will remain in their roles , with Scott McIntyre continuing as CEO, Guidehouse announced from McLean, Virginia on Monday.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has won a potential $579 million contract to help the U.S. Space Force sustain a unified command and control capability for military satellite communications.

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WashngtonExec

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today, Harish Luthra is the CEO of SAP National Security Services, but that’s not where his journey at SAP began. In his 26 years with SAP, Luthra worked his way up the ranks. He served as general manager, a managing director and eventually transitioned to SAP NS2 as president of secure cloud. Last spring, when [.

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Art of Procurement

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to the National Retail Federation, 43 percent of people started doing their holiday shopping in October, leading the NRF. The post Is it the most wonderful time of the supply chain year? appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The “exorbitant” amount of data being taken in by the U.S. Army is impacting the effectiveness of warfighters and commanders, and the service branch’s leaders say they actually need less of it. “Information overload is real. Data overload is real,” said Young Bang , principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, during a panel discussion at the ExecutiveBiz Army Acquisition Priorities: Balancing Readiness and Modernization Forum on Wednesday.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Chris Wysopal, co-founder and chief technology officer at Veracode, said government agencies should advance the adoption of software that is secure by design by educating developers and providing them with the tools they need to integrate security into every aspect of software development. In an article published on Carahsoft.

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WashngtonExec

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The finalists for WashingtonExec’s 2023 Pinnacle Awards were announced Sept. 25, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. 16. Next is Shawn Brody, who’s with the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic, Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions, ISSM, Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions Program Management Office.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A common refrain among IT leaders is “people, process, technology.” In other words, change starts with the people who implement the processes that technology helps achieve. It’s a relationship that applies to all kinds of IT reform, including migrating to everything-as-a-service (XaaS) or other cloud services. Everyone in the agency needs to support the transformation.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Mike Boorstein , formerly general manager at Amazon 's Robotic Sortable Fulfillment Center, has joined BWX Technologies as general manager of the Nuclear Operations Group-Euclid manufacturing facility. He will manage daily operations, including a workforce of over 350 and the production of electro-mechanical components for naval nuclear reactors used in submarines and aircraft carriers, BWXT said Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Department of Transportation is seeking bidders to provide project management oversight services to the Federal Transit Administration. In a notice issued Thursday on SAM.

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