Public Procurement Intl
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Professor Andrea Sundstrand – Stockholm University Please feel free to join this interesting presentation on EU defense procurement and the decisions of the European Court of Justice. Professor Sundstrand of Stockholm University will discuss her article on the intersection of Member State autonomy over defense matters and the European Union’s authority to direct procurement rules.
GovCon & Trade
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
In 2023, U.S. export officials were busy bringing novel enforcement actions, introducing new and far-reaching rules, and issuing guidance (and warnings) to the exporting community. We can expect 2024 to be similar. Join us for an insightful webinar where Thad McBride and Faith Dibble – international trade attorneys at Bass, Berry & Sims – will delve into the noteworthy enforcement actions of 2023.
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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.
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
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,
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.
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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FedScoop
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
New bid protests filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over a $50 billion, governmentwide IT contract vehicle known as CIO-SP4 prompted the agency handling it to request for an extension of the existing vehicle, an official confirmed. “The CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business extension requests are currently being routed for approval,” Ricky Clark, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ), said in an emailed stat
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.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Serco Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $525 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to sustain its support for the public assistance efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during presidentially declared disasters and emergencies. The company said Wednesday it will maintain its responsibility for recruiting and deploying staff, providing advisory and assistance services, conducting technical assessments and cost analysis as well as managing projects.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Complex intelligence missions, time-sensitive defense strategies and space operations are increasingly relying on geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, and space imagery during an increasingly competitive moment in the space domain. A myriad of opportunities are now being unlocked as government agencies turn to commercial space companies to help them keep a watchful eye on space.
FedScoop
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said this week that it intends to award an estimated $70 million contract to Accenture Federal Services for its Patent Search Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The notice of intent described the need for a contractor to provide a “full system development effort” to continue maintenance for PSAI capabilities, and “provide new enhancements” for the component.
Federal News Network
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A new rule is expected any time now that will overhaul how the Defense Department buys from the Ability One program. That is the vehicle for non-profit employers of people with disabilities to deliver goods and services to the government. Contractors under the Ability One program worry the new rule will hinder a chief program goal of helping those very employees.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has received a 2024 Wash100 Award for his commitment to empowering cooperative scientific exploration and technological progress through various agency missions. The esteemed Wash100 Award has honored the most influential leaders in the government contracting industry for 11 years.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize Mac Curtis, chairman of the board at defense and transportation company Cubic, as a 2024 Wash100 Award recipient for driving the adoption of digital intelligence business platforms and analytics to address near-pear challenges. Vote for Curtis as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition!
FedScoop
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs has corrected a series of issues connected to its troubled electronic health record modernization initiative with Oracle Cerner, but problems with legacy pharmacy software from the contractor remain, an agency watchdog said Thursday. Testifying at a House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization hearing , VA Deputy Inspector General David Case said an upcoming OIG report will highlight “unresolved, insufficiently communicated pharmacy-related
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The company behind a proposed — and highly controversial — 1.75 million square foot monkey rearing facility in southwest Georgia has taken its fight against local officials to federal court, accusing a development authority of trying amid public outcry to back out of a $300 million bond deal to finance the project.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
LMI has secured a potential five-year, $33.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide data and analysis services in support of the service branch’s Readiness-Based Sparing and Readiness-Spares Packages. Under the contract, the company said Tuesday it will help the Air Force Sustainment Center Logistics Directorate improve supply chain readiness, facilitate the decision-making process and provide optimization tools to help meet the goals of AFSC 2.0 and the Digital Depot Vision for Ind
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall as a winner of the 2024 Wash100 Award for driving rapid acquisition and artificial intelligence adoption and advancing modernization priorities. Vote for Frank Kendall as your favorite GovCon leader — visit Wash100.com to cast your ten votes today.
Federal News Network
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A recent argument a contractor made to the Contract Board of Appeals might lead companies to the wrong conclusion. It is another case of a company trying to recover unanticipated costs under a fixed price contract, costs incurred because of the COVID pandemic. The case is about jurisdiction, though, and not cost recovery. For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Haynes Boone procurement attorney Zach Prince.
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A D.C. federal judge may be allowing suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to pursue a handful of arguments over the constitutionality of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, but attorneys told Law360 they aren't convinced those claims will fare any better than those already dismissed by the court.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Digital services integrator Fearless secured a three-year contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further develop, maintain and modernize the Enterprise Data Exchange, or DEX, platform, which is designed to support data ingestion, routing, validation, provisioning and streaming. DEX works to receive data from clinics, hospitals, laboratories, nonprofit organizations and government agencies and deliver that data back to the same entities through portals and application pro
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program evaluates the security of Cloud Service Offerings, or CSOs, prior to their deployment in U.S. government organizations.
WashngtonExec
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Avenu Insights & Analytics, which offers revenue recovery and administrative solutions for state and local governments, has bought Judicial Innovations. This is Avenu’s second purchase of a payment solution company in 2024, highlighting its dedication to improving government payment technologies and expanding its justice solution offerings.
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied two protests related to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement solicitation for air charter services for transportation of noncitizens in federal custody, according to two decisions published Thursday.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
As of July 2023, RTX and SAIC veteran John Havermann is president and CEO of Fornax Advanced Materials. In this role, Havermann is deeply committed to securing Fornax as a go-to name in aerospace, defense and energy advanced materials manufacturing. The busy leader recently sat down with ExecutiveBiz to give us a peek behind the curtain at his new company, explain how it’s responding to the national security threats of the day and more.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
The advent of easy-to-use tools like ChatGPT has entrenched generative artificial intelligence into the public consciousness. With its vast array of potential applications, generative AI holds immense potential for a wide variety of domains. Like many other organizations, the Department of Defense is evaluating the effectiveness of this technology across a diverse set of use cases.
GovLoop
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
For the Defense Department (DoD), implementing zero-trust cybersecurity principles are an absolute must to protect against vulnerabilities and to continuously monitor evolving threats. The DoD needs to ensure that their personnel are properly trained, since about a third of cyber-related threats come from the inside. Controlling access and privileges for users and devices on its networks is another must, ensuring that devices are secured and that network identities don’t have unnecessary privile
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has backed protests by Deloitte and another company over $450 million in Library of Congress software development contracts, saying the agency made several errors in how it assessed and compared bids.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Investment firms Veritas Capital and KKR have agreed to invest in Cotiviti , a provider of data analytics services to health care organizations, to support the latter's commercial expansion and product development efforts. Veritas Capital and KKR will own equal ownership stakes in Cotiviti and allocate capital through their venture capital funds to help accelerate the company's fund growth and technology innovation investments, Cotiviti said Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Executive Mosaic is proud to name Northrop Grumman Chairman, CEO and President Kathy Warden to its 2024 Wash100 list for her strategic, growth-oriented leadership strategy and her keen attention to military innovation. This is Warden’s ninth year appearing on the Wash100 list, placing her in the top echelon of all-time Wash100 recipients.
WashngtonExec
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
ICF recently secured five new subcontracts with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration to bolster support for mental health programs, focusing on evaluation and communications, especially for the agency’s 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. These contracts are valued at $24 million collectively. “For over 30 years, ICF’s deep expertise in behavioral health and our [.
Art of Procurement
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In today’s digital age, jokes are often made at technology’s expense. I have multiple calls each week where someone apologizes. The post Killer App: The UK Post Office Scandal appeared first on Art of Procurement.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Lockheed Martin released a video of a novel augmented reality training technology meant for integration with a TF-50 trainer jet simulator. The AR technology was provided by Red 6 , one of Lockheed's venture capital investments, the parent company said Monday.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Avenu Insights & Analytics, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, has acquired Judicial Innovations, a provider of cloud-based payment and case management software to government and private sector customers.
GovLoop
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
An interview with Marty Sullivan, Director of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, and Tim Holthoff, Director of the Arkansas Court Information Systems Division Arkansas has long been a national leader in providing public access to court information. Now, the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts is making good use of American Rescue Plan funds to create a better, more user-friendly case management system that will allow for easier public access to court records.
Whistleblower Network News
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
On February 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Brian Young has been named as the new director of the CFTC Whistleblower Office. Since it was established in 2010, the CFTC Whistleblower Program has emerged as an essential part of the CFTC’s enforcement efforts, including in the area of crypto fraud. “Leads generated from insiders are critically important to any financial enforcement program,” said Young.
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