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Episode Three- Failure to Comply -Potential Consequences for Paid Tax Return Preparers and their Customers

Coleman Jackson, P.C.

LEGAL THOUGHTS – Failure to Comply-Potential Consequences for Paid Tax Return Preparers and their Customers COLEMAN JACKSON, ATTORNEY & LEGAL COUNSEL | Transcription of Legal Thoughts Posted on July 15, 2024 Topic: Tax Return Preparer Due Diligence Attorney Introduction: Welcome to Legal Thoughts my name is Coleman Jackson, and I am an attorney at Coleman […] The post Episode Three- Failure to Comply -Potential Consequences for Paid Tax Return Preparers and their Customers appeare

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Deloitte Wins $2.4B GSA Contract to Help Address Submarine Workforce & Industrial Base Challenges

GovCon Wire

Deloitte Consulting has won a potential $2.4 billion contract from the General Services Administration to help meet the submarine workforce and industrial base requirement.

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De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With

Art of Procurement

Section 321 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 contains a small provision known as ‘de minimis,’ a Latin phrase. The post De Minimis: Supply Chain Trifles the Law Should be Concerned With appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Treasury group unveils guidance for financial sector on cloud adoption

FedScoop

The Treasury Department and an industry-led nonprofit on Wednesday released secure cloud adoption guidance for financial institutions, the culmination of a year-long effort that the agency’s deputy secretary called “critically important to our work on cybersecurity.” The suite of resources released by Treasury and the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council as part of the public-private Cloud Executive Steering Group is intended to address gaps called out in the department’s February 2023

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

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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Managed Services Make TSA More Agile

FedTech Magazine

Before the advent of cloud computing and self-service tech, IT professionals often drowned customers in tech jargon. But the industry’s evolution has brought a new way to interface with technology. Today, tech is intuitive and a lot more user-friendly. A toddler can master a tablet in minutes without any instruction. If it’s on, most toddlers understand the tablet’s common features in about 30 minutes or less.

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CGO Wagish Bhartiya on How REI Systems Prizes Long-Term Customer Relationships

GovCon Wire

Wagish Bhartiya’s career trajectory has included the best of both worlds: he has spent roughly half of his working life in government contracting and half in the commercial sector.

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New Paper Refutes Arguments Against Implementation of Whistleblower Awards in the U.K.

Whistleblower Network News

In the midst of a renewed debate in the U.K. around offering monetary awards to whistleblowers who report corporate crimes, a newly published paper by leading whistleblower attorney and author Stephen M. Kohn revisits and refutes prior arguments made against the implementation of whistleblower awards in the U.K. Examining 14 years of data around the whistleblower provisions of the United States’ Dodd-Frank Act, Kohn, a founding partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto , shows that widely-cited argu

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What happened when the Air Force neglected its biggest plane for too long

Federal News Network

Lockheed Martin recently won a settlement worth more than $130 million in a protest with the Air Force. The company completed a contract to update the big C5 transport places with new engines. But it also had to do thousands of repairs outside the scope of the contract, and that’s where the disagreements started. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin got details from Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish.

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SPA’s Rich Sawchak Shares Insights on National Security & GovCon Trends

GovCon Wire

The shifting global security landscape, emerging technologies and workforce trends are all shaping how the government and the GovCon industry operate. GovCon Wire sat down with Rich Sawchak, CEO of Systems Planning and Analysis, to get his perspective on the GovCon trends influencing the federal landscape today.

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SAIC’s Craig McIntire Shares Thoughts on GovCon Trends & Company Growth Strategy

ExecutiveBiz

Craig McIntire currently serves as vice president of the Department of Homeland Security Account within SAIC’s Civilian Business Group. In this role, he oversees the full spectrum of the company’s DHS portfolio, which includes a wide variety of information technology and engineering services.

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USAID’s focus on AI and emerging technology continues with new policy release

FedScoop

The U.S. global development agency is continuing to focus on the opportunities and potential challenges raised by artificial intelligence. After USAID revealed a democracy, human rights, and governance policy Thursday, Administrator Samantha Power highlighted the need to use technology to strengthen democracy, while also remaining vigilant about the ways the same kinds of tools could be used to harm people.

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The BIOSECURE Act

Federal News Network

Joy Sturm, partner, Hogan Lovells Joy Sturm, partner at Hogan Lovells , joins Off the Shelf for a briefing on the proposed BIOSECURE Act that would reshape biotechnology supply chains serving the federal government. The proposed legislation would prohibit the federal government from contracting with certain Chinese “companies of concern.” The prohibition would cover contracts, grants, and subcontractors.

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V2X Receives $141M Navy Task Order for C4I Systems Engineering Support

GovCon Wire

V2X (NYSE: VVX) has booked a $141 million U.S. Navy task order for continued delivery of assured communication capability to the naval fleet. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee award, the company said Wednesday it will perform engineering services in support of the command, control, communications, computer and intelligence systems used by the service branch’s afloat force.

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Kapil Wadhera: Intel Partners With Government in 5 Ways to Help Regain US Semiconductor Leadership

ExecutiveBiz

Kapil Wadhera, vice president and general manager of government engagements and business operations at Intel Foundry, said in a June 25 blog post that there are five ways that Intel is working with the U.S. government to help the U.S. regain its semiconductor leadership.

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Whistleblower Receives Over $4 Million in Medical Record Fraud Settlement

Whistleblower Network News

On July 10, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Strauss Ventures LLC, doing business as The Grand Health Care System, and 12 affiliated skilled nursing facilities (collectively, the Grand) agreed to pay $21.3 million to settle accusations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal health care programs for therapy treatments that were unreasonable, unnecessary, unskilled or that did not occur as billed.

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When to Request a Consent to Subcontract If You Don't Qualify for a Purchasing Review

Redstone Government Consulting

Probably now. Depending on the type and dollar amount of your subcontracts, FAR 52.244-2 Subcontracts clause requires a contractor that does not have an approved purchasing system (never been reviewed or is disapproved) to obtain written consent from the Contracting Officer before subcontract award.

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Justices' Criminal Law Decisions: The Term In Review

Government Contracts

Each of the 11 criminal decisions issued in the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently concluded term are independently important, but taken together, they reveal trends in the court’s broader approach to criminal law, presenting both pitfalls and opportunities for defendants and their counsel, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

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Pratt & Whitney’s F135 Engine Core Upgrade Passes Preliminary Design Review

ExecutiveBiz

RTX business Pratt & Whitney has cleared a preliminary design review of its F135 Engine Core Upgrade, which would improve the performance and durability of three F-35 aircraft variants as part of the Block 4 modernization program.

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Pakistani Energy Sector Parties Challenge Arbitration Awards in the English High Court on the Grounds of ‘Serious Irregularity’

Kluwer Arbitration

When a party is not content with an arbitration award, a challenge in the domestic courts often ensues. The High Court of England and Wales (the ‘ High Court ’) often deals with this issue in challenges based on ‘serious irregularity’ in arbitration proceedings. How domestic courts approach challenges to arbitration awards is of increasing importance as foreign parties often decide to seat an arbitration in a jurisdiction that they believe will provide the greatest stability to governing the arb

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Why the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture Must Evolve

FedTech Magazine

U.S. Cyber Command finds itself at a crossroads with the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture, which must meet current operational needs while also evolving to integrate with more systems. Further integration of the cyber warfare platform depends on shifting software development from the traditional waterfall approach to one that’s more agile.

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More Novel Protests May Follow OTA Jurisdiction Ruling

Government Contracts

A Court of Federal Claims decision asserting jurisdiction over certain disputes stemming from the U.S. government's authority to mimic commercial purchasing practices could open the door for more novel protests challenging the use of that authority.

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Building a Future-Ready, High-Performance Government Workforce

FedInsider

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and political uncertainty, increasing workplace changes and new complexities are just some of the factors affecting workforce mental health and wellbeing. This poses a risk to mission readiness, because wellbeing drives individual and organizational performance.

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Building a Culture of Cyber Literacy

GovLoop

Improving their employees’ cybersecurity awareness has been a longtime focus of government agencies. The changing cyber threat landscape, with attacks becoming ever-more frequent and sophisticated, has put a finer point on what employees need to know. The goal now is not just cyber awareness, but cyber literacy — the ability to function safely in online environments with a clear understanding of what constitutes safe behavior.

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Peter Schumacher Named Firefly Aerospace Interim CEO

GovCon Wire

Peter Schumacher, a board member at Firefly Aerospace, has been appointed as interim CEO of the Cedar Park, Texas-based space transportation services provider.

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BREAKING: Judge Axes Most Of SEC's SolarWinds' Data Breach Suit

Government Contracts

A New York federal judge on Thursday delivered a heavy blow to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against software developer SolarWinds Corp. by dismissing substantial portions of the lawsuit, including claims that the company committed securities fraud by minimizing the severity of a state-sponsored attack on its flagship product.

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GSA calls for nominations to emerging tech-focused acquisition advisory committee

FedScoop

The General Services Administration’s Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee (GAP FAC) is seeking nominations for members who have expertise in emerging technology and acquisition. In a Federal Register posting Tuesday, the GSA said the recently renewed GAP FAC will be composed of between 10 and 30 federal and non-federal members to support the group’s new focus area within artificial intelligence, cloud computing and infrastructure, machine learning, cybersecurity and other technology-re

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OpenAI Whistleblowers File Complaint with SEC on Illegal NDAs

Whistleblower Network News

Whistleblowers from OpenAI have filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company is silencing employees from sharing concerns with the public and federal employees about its AI technology through its employment contracts. In a letter filed with the SEC, representation for the whistleblowers called for a federal investigation into OpenAI’s policies, demanding changes to ensure a culture of transparency and accountability as the industry races to d

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Air Force Unveils Research Opportunities for Next-Gen Target Tracking Architecture, Space Domain Awareness

GovCon Wire

The U.S. Air Force has issued two separate research announcements to meet the need for an artificial intelligence-based advanced tracking architecture and technologies supporting space domain awareness.

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Serving In The National Guard Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Government Contracts

My ongoing military experience as a judge advocate general in the National Guard has shaped me as a person and a lawyer, teaching me the importance of embracing confidence, balance and teamwork in both my Army and civilian roles, says Danielle Aymond at Baker Donelson.

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Social Security Administration transitioning long-time users to Login.gov

FedScoop

Late last week, the Social Security Administration announced that long-time users of the agency’s online account system would have to switch to Login.gov, the government-wide identity management and sign-on service created by the General Services Administration. The new requirement applies to users who created accounts for Social Security’s services, including its my Social Security benefits-management platform, before September 2021, but not those who already have a Login.gov account or those w

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Decoding National Stock Numbers (NSNs) for Federal Contracts

USFCR

Efficient procurement is essential in federal contracting. One key tool that ensures this efficiency is the National Stock Number (NSN). By understanding NSNs, businesses can streamline their procurement processes and gain a competitive edge in federal contracts. What Are National Stock Numbers (NSNs)? National Stock Numbers (NSNs) are standardized 13-digit codes used by the federal government to identify and catalog items.

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Whistleblower Receives $1.2 Million for Alleging Violations of FCC Rules

Whistleblower Network News

On July 12, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that telecommunications provider Armstrong Group, based in Butler, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle False Claims Act accusations. The government alleges that Armstrong Group knowingly violated the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rules for the High-Cost Program and submitted improper costs to inflate the subsidies received from the federal Universal Service Fund (USF).

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These Firms Have the Most Diverse Equity Partnerships

Government Contracts

Law360’s law firm survey shows that firms' efforts to diversify their equity partner ranks are lagging. But some have embraced a broader talent pool at the equity partner level. Here are the ones that stood out.

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Energy highlights roadmap for FASST AI program

FedScoop

The Department of Energy on Tuesday released an artificial intelligence roadmap focused on its Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology — or FASST — program. The initiative, which is focused on national security, building the AI workforce, and advancing breakthroughs with energy and science, would help coordinate Energy’s work on advancing AI technology.

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The CAS Board is Looking for Input on its Proposed Changes Related to Revenue and Right of Use Leases

Redstone Government Consulting

In the June 27, 2024 Federal Register , the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) put out a notification that it was looking for input on its efforts to conform Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) related to operating revenue and lease accounting. Back on March 13, 2019, the CASB published a Discussion Paper to collect initial input on the conformance of CAS to GAAP.

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Noel Engels

Whistleblower Network News

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Noel Engels. After spending over two decades working for the US government in intelligence, law enforcement, and military combat operations, Engels left his role as a Criminal Analyst at the Department of Homeland Security after filing a whistleblower complaint. Engels claims he was improperly removed from an investigation into human trafficking allegations against Utah County Attorney David O.