GovCon & Trade
JANUARY 30, 2024
I recently outlined key takeaways from the “2023 Year in Review” report issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce in early January for a Law360 article. As I explained in the article, the report “emphasizes specific actions and thus serves as a valuable indicator of priorities for BIS [the Bureau of Industry and Security] and other U.S. government actors involved in export compliance, in 2024 and beyond.
FedScoop
JANUARY 31, 2024
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped using commercial telemetry data, which can include phone data that reveals a person’s location, an agency spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. “Like other law enforcement agencies, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) employs various forms of technology to investigate violations of the law, while appropriately respecting civil liberties and privacy interests,” the spokesperson said.
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GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Tria Federal, an information technology and advisory services provider, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of technology leader John Cho as its first chief technology officer and Brian Wagner, a public affairs officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, as vice president of marketing and communications.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 31, 2024
Bill Cull has led a 25-year career assisting technology companies in creating and marketing programs to serve the government’s mission. He has served in senior leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Splunk, Oracle and Palo Alto Networks. He is now VP of the U.S. federal business at SpyCloud. In this Spotlight interview, Cull outlined the demands of the new era of cybercrime that has developed over the last decade, the value and risks of open-source intelligence and more.
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FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
When the Office of Personnel and Management secured $9.9 million from the Technology Modernization Fund to support its zero-trust security efforts, the agency was thinking big. “We wanted to tackle it all,” says OPM CISO James Saunders of its journey to a zero-trust architecture. “Because if you tried to do it sequentially — maybe networks first, then data, then identity — it would take too much time.
FedScoop
JANUARY 29, 2024
In wake of SEC breach, federal policymakers, agencies, and experts can't seem to agree on whether agencies must use MFA on social media.
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ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Steve Escaravage , an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton , was inducted into Executive Mosaic's 2024 class of Wash100 honorees for his distinctive artificial intelligence leadership and technology innovation push. The award marks the third consecutive year that Escaravage secured the recognition. Vote for Escaravage as one of your 10 favorite government industry leaders at Wash100.com.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 30, 2024
Integrated artificial intelligence is opening the door to exciting possibilities in client computing and databases as it sparks a wave of innovation across the technology industry. Semiconductor giant AMD has made significant strides by integrating AI engines with client systems, from fourth-generation, Windows 11-supported Epyc and Ryzen processors to its MI300X virtual machines.
Select GCR
JANUARY 30, 2024
As the economic landscape continues to evolve, small businesses remain a cornerstone of growth, innovation, and job creation. Recently, governments at various levels recognized the pivotal role played by small enterprises, allocating substantial funds to support their development. In this blog, we delve into the agencies and departments of the government that invested in small businesses throughout the year, exploring the impact it had on government contracting.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 29, 2024
The Department of Defense is perpetually concerned with how to best diffuse and counteract missile threats from near-peer adversaries. Hence, systems like the U.S. Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability, or IFPC. This deterrence mechanism is meant to dispose of incoming cruise missiles and drones and protect fixed and semi-fixed targets from rockets, artillery and mortars.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Venice Goodwine , chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force, as a first-time Wash100 Award recipient. Goodwine is included in the 2024 Wash100 roster for her outstanding leadership in spearheading the service branch's information technology investment strategy and fostering innovation in emerging technologies across the enterprise.
GovLoop
JANUARY 31, 2024
Goal: Ensure that agencies are staying, if not current with technology, no more than one or two cycles behind. People use assorted metaphors to describe modernization: a journey, construction project, ballgame, etc. But Heather T. Kowalski, Chief Information Officer for Interpol Washington, calls it something else: a lava flow. One improvement needs to solidify, she said, before others can follow, advancing a little further each time.
USFCR
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Curavetti Medical Staffing, in significant collaboration with Prometheus Federal Services, has been entrusted with a vital role in the Veterans Health Administration's $23 billion staffing program. This initiative, aimed at addressing staffing shortages, will directly benefit over 9 million veterans nationwide.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Caitlin Marsh, former strategic intelligence manager of Ball Corp.’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business, has joined SpiderOak as vice president of product. The company said Thursday she was appointed to oversee product and market strategy, product development and customer mission requirements.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The U.S. Air Force awarded Serco Inc. a $90 million follow-on contract to continue implementing IBM's TRIRIGA software at the maintenance and installation systems division of the U.S. Air Force Program Executive Office for Business Enterprise Systems. The potential five-year contract includes a base performance period of one year and four one-year option periods, the company said Wednesday.
GovLoop
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Across government agencies at all levels, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) promises to advance mission outcomes, streamline constituent interactions and boost worker productivity Let’s take a look at three government use cases that help demonstrate the power of GenAI : Improving the Constituent Experience: Suppose a New York constituent wants a business license for a general store that’s going to sell beer and wine.
FedScoop
JANUARY 31, 2024
A new report dives into how government agencies can meet the zero-trust security mandate with strategic partnerships and innovative technologies.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Julie Clark, a business development executive, has joined IPT Associates as vice president of business development and capture. She announced the move in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. Clark previously served as senior VP of business development at BTAS, a woman-owned information technology services provider supporting defense and federal civilian agencies.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Artificial intelligence and satellite innovations are driving advancements within the communications industry, and we’re just beginning to see how far these technologies can take us. In an Executive Spotlight with Executive Mosaic, MetTel Vice President of Public Sector Sales and Solution Architecture Don Parente spoke about how low earth orbit satellites, global networks and AI tools can help close the digital divide for government agencies.
Whistleblower Network News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
[link] In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast , FBI whistleblower Jane Turner speaks with online disinformation specialist Dr. Joan Donovan, the former Technology and Social Change Research Project Director at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. Donovan blew the whistle on alleged improper donor influence at the Kennedy School.
SmallGovCon
JANUARY 31, 2024
The second entry in our new “Why File” series covers some of the main reasons unsuccessful offerors file veteran-owned small business (VOSB) and service-disabled veteran owned small businesses (SDVOSB) status protests. Don’t worry if VOSB and SDVOSB are new acronyms to you–or you just need a refresher–we’ve got a Back to Basics blog for that.
GovCon Wire
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Executive Mosaic‘s 2024 Wash100 is the most esteemed, diverse and, yes, competitive class of winners in the award’s 11 years of existence. Now that we have unveiled who is on the list, the storied popular vote contest has been underway for just over a week.
ExecutiveBiz
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
ICF has secured a $75 million contract to help the Environmental Protection Agency perform risk assessments to protect human health and the environment. A notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov states that the contractor will assist the EPA in assessing health risks to humans and the environment and develop novel methods, guidelines and models for conducting risk assessments.
Whistleblower Network News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Dr. Tommie (“Toni”) Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. Her case before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) established the right for federal whistleblowers to pursue hostile work environment claims.
Government Contracts
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Because artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems often operate in the shadows, there's a new need for legislation, regulation and enforcement to ensure the technology doesn't undercut civil liberties by engaging in discrimination in housing, education or employment, according to Cody Venzke, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 31, 2024
Optical communications are an up-and-coming alternative to radio frequency-based comms that are attracting the attention of the biggest space companies and agencies. Among them: NASA and Elon Musk’s Starlink.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 31, 2024
TRAX International will continue supporting NASA and several of its facilities under a potential $46.8 million contract extension. The company supports NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Wallops Flight Facility and Langley Research Center in Virginia as part of the Goddard Logistics and Technical Information II contract , the space agency said Tuesday.
FedInsider
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024 | 2:00PM – 3:30PM EST | 90 Minutes | 1.5 CPE Cybersecurity has always contended with evolving threats. As the internet has become more embedded into social and economic life and smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices become ubiquitous, bad actors have devised new attacks to capitalize on new vulnerabilities. And just as agencies are implementing zero trust architecture to help with this wave, other IT developments are threatening to upend cybersecurity even mor
GovLoop
JANUARY 30, 2024
We reached out to GovLoop readers for their thoughts about employee experience. Here’s a summary of the survey results. People most valued having a flexible schedule, with 77% of respondents ranking it “very important.” Just behind that, at 70%, was having access to professional development and career planning. Working in an inclusive environment was the next priority, at 61%, and then having access to the latest technology and tools came in fourth, with 51% of respondents ranking it “very impor
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 31, 2024
Craig Martell, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer of the Department of Defense, has been selected by Executive Mosaic for the 2024 Wash100 roster of exceptional leaders in the government contracting sector.
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 31, 2024
Executive Mosaic is pleased to honor CGI Federal President Stephanie Mango with a 2024 Wash100 Award for her unwavering dedication to growing the company through contract wins and technology advancement, marking her third induction into Wash100. The esteemed Wash100 Award annually highlights the most influential figures in the government contracting industry, honoring their past accomplishments while also anticipating their future impact.
Whistleblower Network News
JANUARY 31, 2024
On January 30, the United States Attorney for Eastern District of Michigan announced that Merrill Technologies Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries will pay $5 million to settle charges that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) “by falsely overstating cost or pricing data included in a subcontract proposal for work under a contract with the U.S. Department of the Army.
WashngtonExec
JANUARY 31, 2024
Cameron Chehreh Vice President & General Manager of Public Sector, Intel This past year, Cameron Chehreh worked closely with customers across state, local, civilian and defense agencies to deliver better citizen service and keep ahead of near-peer adversaries. His team worked closely with customers to digitally transform and unlock the value of existing IT investments [.
GovCon Wire
JANUARY 29, 2024
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu has secured her fourth Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic for driving innovation through greater government-industry-academia collaboration in emerging and critical defense technology development. Shyu, who will keynote the Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31, spent the past year reiterating OUSD R&E’s strategy of harnessing the capabilities of their team, the knowledge of academic instituti
ExecutiveBiz
JANUARY 31, 2024
ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The technology firm said Tuesday it is developing an Amazon Web Services cloud-based service for CMS' End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System to expedite the collection, analysis and synthesis of patient data to efficiently pair patients with health providers.
Art of Procurement
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
In 2005, Amazon revolutionized eCommerce delivery expectations with their 2-day Prime delivery service. All of a sudden, every other retailer. The post The Drone Final Mile Becomes Reality appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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