Coleman Jackson, P.C.

MARCH 18, 2024

LEGAL THOUGHTS – Attorney’s Update Episode 1 on CTA Beneficial Ownership Information Filing Requirements COLEMAN JACKSON, ATTORNEY & LEGAL COUNSEL | Transcription of Legal Thoughts Posted on March 20, 2024 Topic: The Courts Have Begun to Weigh in on the Transparency Law Welcome to Legal Thoughts! Attorney Introduction: My name is Coleman […] The post Episode 1: Attorney’s Update on the CTA’s Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements appeared first on Tax

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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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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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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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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,

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 22, 2024

Accenture has entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services and artificial intelligence company Anthropic with the aim of providing organizations with the ability to adopt and scale generative AI technology in a responsible manner. Accenture said Wednesday that, under the partnership, it will provide customers with services and accelerators -- like a new generative AI switchboard -- that will make it possible to customize AI models for specific needs.

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GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2024

Building a large AI data model from scratch is prohibitively expensive for most organizations. But the release of AI foundation models, particularly large language models (LLM), has allowed organizations to take advantage of broader community investments in AI. But there’s a catch: Agencies need to tweak and train these models to meet their specific objectives, maintain privacy and ensure regulatory compliance.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 20, 2024

[link] In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast , host Jane Turner speaks with leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn , founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of National Whistleblower Center , about the recent landmark ruling in the Supreme Court whistleblower case Murray v. UBS Securities.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Today’s national security landscape is incredibly complex. As the Department of Homeland Security evolves to combat the wide array new threats posed by rapidly advancing technologies and extreme climate events, it has adopted a forward thinking approach focused on what DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dimitri Kusnezov called “over the horizon challenges.

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Select GCR

MARCH 19, 2024

A Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) is a company majority owned and run by veterans who have served in the military. These businesses are important because they bring the unique skills and experiences gained during military service into the business world. Government agencies and big companies often give special opportunities to VOSBs, like contracts and resources, to help them grow.

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FedScoop

MARCH 21, 2024

The Congressional Research Service is exploring the use of artificial intelligence to summarize legislation, which could potentially alleviate some of the agency’s backlog, CRS’s interim director told lawmakers Wednesday. “One of the things that we’re very excited about is a process that we’re looking at right now to develop five models that would help us with bill summaries,” Robert Newlen, CRS’s interim director, said at a hearing before the Committee on House Administration’s modernization su

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Federal News Network

MARCH 22, 2024

Despite the Pentagon’s efforts and reforms in recent years to attract more innovative companies into its ecosystem, it is still challenging for companies outside the traditional base to do business with the department, a new report finds. The Reagan Foundation and Institute graded the health and resilience of what it calls the U.S. national security innovation base.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is set to release its first maturity model for large language models this year, according to CDAO Chief Technology Officer William Streilein. LLMs are deep learning models that are trained on mass amounts of data and can respond to prompts from a human.

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GovSpend

MARCH 19, 2024

Women’s History Month in March is a time to honor and celebrate our women entrepreneurs! According to the National Women’s Business Council 2023 Annual Report 14 million women owned businesses (WOB) make up 39% of all US Businesses, and has grown 13.6% from 2019 to 2023. The 2022 Annual Business Survey which covers 2021, estimates that women owned businesses had an estimated $2.1 trillion in receipts and had an estimated 10.5 million employees.

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Redstone Government Consulting

MARCH 20, 2024

Cost Accounting Standard (CAS) 408 was put in place to provide consistency in the measurement and allocation of vacation, sick leave, holiday, and other compensated personal absences. Today, many contractors refer to all paid time off as “PTO.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 19, 2024

Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

The Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System, known as JWICS, is a top secret information technology network used by Department of Defense and Intelligence Community components. According to Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Information Officer Doug Cossa, the agency is in the midst of a “huge effort” to transform the system to meet modern capability demands.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 19, 2024

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to help further develop the concept of building a moon-based railroad network as part of the broader 10-year Lunar Architecture Capability Study. This lunar railroad network could transport humans, supplies and resources for commercial ventures across the lunar surface, contributing to a space economy for [.

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Redstone Government Consulting

MARCH 18, 2024

In November of 2023, DoD issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to partially implement a section of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) addressing the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and DFARS contract clauses impacting prime or higher-tier contractors issuing commercial subcontracts for commercial products, including commercially available off-the-shelf items, and commercial services.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 20, 2024

Forty-five states have now completed climate action plans outlining how they'll advance federal climate goals through policy and programs in coming years, with most focusing at least in part on real estate development as a way to reduce emissions.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, is the U.S. Department of Defense’s ambitious plan to increase connectivity across all battle scenarios, remote outposts and amongst all DOD components and international allies.

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FedScoop

MARCH 22, 2024

Complaints about the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program, the popular expedited passenger screening system, have more than tripled since 2015, according to newly released data from an organization focused on obtaining government datasets and making them more accessible. That surge — from more than 2,500 in January 2015 to more than 8,500 in January of this year — is a notable increase, given that the number of passengers with TSA PreCheck who passed through the security ch

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FedInsider

MARCH 18, 2024

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The continuous evolution of technology presents us with a dynamic landscape filled with both promise and challenges. As the internet gained widespread adoption, it revolutionized various aspects of our lives, introducing innovations such as online shopping and real-time news updates, alongside issues like spam, phishing, and malware.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 18, 2024

Trade secrets cases are having a moment in the spotlight, thanks to some gargantuan damages awards over the past five years and more flexibility for plaintiffs to argue for what they think they are owed.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Sanjeev Verma, founder and chairman of PreVeil, said defense contractors seeking to protect sensitive controlled unclassified information while ensuring compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement should adopt tools like an end-to-end encrypted email and file-sharing system.

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SmallGovCon

MARCH 22, 2024

If you are a government contractor, odds are you have faced a situation where some aspect of the contract you were performing changed outside of your control, or you ran into something that neither you nor the government expected. As a result, your work requirements likely changed, and with that, your costs likely changed as well. When this happens, there are multiple paths to getting reimbursements for those new costs, and one of the most common ones is a request for equitable adjustment.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 22, 2024

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) kicked off Sunshine Week on March 11 with remarks on the Senate floor about the importance of whistleblowers in promoting transparency and accountability. In his remarks, Grassley stressed that “to control a government as big as ours, it takes a lot of very bright light shining on every agency and office.” He further noted that “whistleblowers are patriots and our most powerful tool in rooting out waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct.

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