Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Pentagon’s massive contract to overhaul the military’s system for moving military members’ belongings from one duty station to another has cleared its latest technical hurdle and is finally ready to start being used for moves, company officials involved with the multibillion dollar contract told investors Tuesday. A new round of IT integration testing, conducted in January, proved “successful,” said Stuart Bradie, the president and CEO of KBR.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The spy agency’s cyber director will be replaced by David Luber, deputy director of the Cybersecurity Directorate and former executive director of U.S. Cyber Command.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE With a growing number of dams approaching their design service life, dam safety engineers are looking for ways to mitigate the risks related to public safety, aging infrastructure and rising maintenance costs. Modernizing dam monitoring and maintenance practices with digital advancements, including the latest automated condition monitoring solutions, drone-captured reality modeling and digital twins, are giving public sector dam operators to

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to include Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, in the 2024 roster of Wash100 Award recipients in recognition of his exemplary leadership of the McLean, Virginia-based satellite communications company and his commitment to innovation. Vote for Desch as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition!

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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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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

HashiCorp Federal President Melissa Palmer has spent over 25 years in the government contracting field. Throughout her career, she has focused on the delivery of information technology products and services related to cloud, DevSecOps, cybersecurity and more. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz, Palmer shared her thoughts on the current trends shaping government cloud adoption, the challenges agencies face when moving to the cloud and the opportunities cloud technology p

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

[link] In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast , host Jane Turner talks to Dr. Jeremiah P. Johnson, founder and director of the Lamplighter Project. Dr. Johnson recognized a need to support law enforcement whistleblowers who reported criminal misconduct in 2016 from experience in his own police department. Jeremiah has served in various sworn and civilian roles across the criminal justice system, including policing, sentencing, and corrections.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Potomac Officers Club’s symposium on all things space domain is fast-approaching: the 5th Annual Space Summit will be held on March 5 at the Hilton-McLean in Virginia. At the event, the U.S.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Defense and security are the driving forces in the life and career of Ronald “Fog” Hahn. A two-decade U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Hahn subsequently spent time as a civil servant, before making the “natural progression” into private industry. He joined Astrion in December as its chief growth officer. In this Executive Spotlight interview, Hahn discusses the areas he sees as most ripe for expansion in Astrion’s portfolio, the trends shaping the GovCon market and more.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I know what you’re thinking: Another post about AI and how it’s game-changing and if you’re not using it all day every day for everything you do, you’re miles behind the competition. Well, that might be half true. It’s genuinely game-changing technology, and if you’re not incorporating it into your business, you’re likely at a disadvantage. BUT, and this is a very big “but,” the right application of AI is far more impactful than whether you’re using it at all.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Digital Service is teaming with the department’s Office of Customer Experience on a new fellowship program that will bring workers for digital service delivery, procurement and customer experience strategy jobs to the agency. In announcing its digital service fellows program, USDA DS noted that it is seeking “diverse, talented senior technologists and strategists” from “different walks of life” to further Agriculture’s “wide-ranging missions.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

SpaceX has developed into a major contractor supporting U.S. military and intelligence agencies, demonstrating the need of national security organizations for commercial partners that could quickly develop and launch classified satellites. The Elon Musk-founded rocket company received a potential $1.8 billion classified contract from the U.S. government in 2021, according to documents viewed by WSJ.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On February 22, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released their False Claims Act (FCA) statistics for the 2023 Fiscal Year. Over the course of the year, the DOJ recovered $2.68 billion in FCA settlements and judgements. $2.33 billion of this total came from qui tam whistleblower cases. Under the FCA’s qui tam provisions, whistleblowers with knowledge of government contracting fraud may file lawsuits on behalf of the U.S. government.

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

WashingtonExec has awarded Presidio Federal General Manager Thad Anderson with the Longevity Award, which recognizes executives who made outstanding contributions to their companies throughout the years. Anderson has been with Presidio for 21 years. Below, he shares how he got started with the company, the impact he’s made, mentorship moments and more.

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Federal Construction Contracting

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Sanford Federal, Inc., the selected awardee for a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) contract, learned the hard way that a contractor simply cannot ignore a size protest, regardless of its actual merit. On August 8, 2023, the VA issued an RFQ for boiler plant safety device testing, calibration and inspection for one of its facilities in Arizona.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The U.S. Army awarded Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a potential six-year, $249 million follow-on contract to support the Automated Installation Entry Next procurement project. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will support deployment of AIE technologies including commercial off-the-shelf products in the service branch’s installations in the continental U.S.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On February 16, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced that a Lexington toxicology lab, LabTox, LLC, as well as its owner and compliance officer agreed to pay over $10.4 million to settle whistleblower allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by billing Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary urine tests.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | 11:00AM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE As agencies increasingly migrate their workloads to the cloud, it is crucial to understand the implications and benefits of writing natively to the cloud, which enables organizations to optimize their data protection strategies, streamline operations, and enhance overall security. “Writing natively” is about building, deploying and managing software apps in the cloud computing environment.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the U.S. Supreme Court's latest battle royal over administrative powers, left-leaning justices at oral arguments Tuesday openly suggested that the landmark legal doctrine underpinning modern rulemaking might soon shrivel up, clearing the way for industry-led challenges to regulations on the books for decades.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index slipped 0.17% to $4,788.02 on Feb. 16, 2024, but it was enough for a 0.99% weekly gain. On the other hand, Wall Street’s three major indexes snapped their five-week winning streaks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 lost 0.11% and 0.42% overall, while the Nasdaq shed 1.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Advocates are urging Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority in the government’s next reform omnibus. The proposed Authority has backing in Parliament led by MPs Andrew Wilkie and Helen Haines and Senators David Pocock and Paul Scarr. The Whistleblower Protection Authority (WPA) would be a dedicated independent office designed to put Australia’s federal whistleblowing laws to real use.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Federal agencies collect vast amounts of data that often goes untapped because unlocking its full value is complex. But as agencies move to comply with the White House Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, harnessing the potential in their own data can help meet the EO’s objectives.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

After the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent announcement that it will leverage data analytics in Foreign Corrupt Practice Act investigations and prosecutions, companies will need to develop a compliance strategy that likewise implements data analytics to get ahead of enforcement risks, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

BAE Systems has completed its purchase of Ball‘s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business for approximately $5.5 billion. In August, BAE agreed to buy Ball Aerospace as part of the U.K.-based defense contractor’s efforts to accelerate its space market strategy and expand its technology offerings for the U.S. government.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

CACI has received a potential five-year, $38.5 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency for the provision of systems engineering and technical assistance services. The Department of Defense said Thursday DISA conducted a competitive online solicitation for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and received three bids.

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Art of Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In May of 2023, two of the companies owned by Byron Allen, a black businessman and producer, sued McDonald’s for. The post Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald’s appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The U.S. Government Accountability Office backed the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' requirement for an Illinois company to be licensed in Oregon for a security guard service deal in the state, rejecting the company's contention that the requirement unduly restricted competition.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) will receive a potential $1.5 billion investment from the Department of Commerce through the CHIPS and Science Act to build and expand new manufacturing capabilities to produce more semiconductor chips for automotive, defense, aerospace, artificial intelligence, internet of things and other applications.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Adopting a zero trust policy has become imperative for agencies aiming to safeguard their digital assets against increasingly sophisticated threats. It represents a true paradigm shift, away from traditional perimeter-based security models to a more dynamic, trust-never always-verify approach. One critical part of implementing zero trust is managing digital identity – ensuring that access to resources is securely managed and continuously ve

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Under 13 C.F.R. § 124.506 , if an 8(a) contract price would exceed a certain threshold ($7 million for manufacturing contracts, $4.5 million for others), in most cases, the agency must compete the set-aside. 13 C.F.R. § 124.506(a)(5) is a provision meant to close up what otherwise would be a loophole in the rules. It states that “[a] proposed 8(a) requirement with an estimated value exceeding the applicable competitive threshold amount may not be divided into several separate procurement actions

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In an era of information overload, attorneys can use social media strategically — from making infographics to leveraging targeted advertising — to cut through the noise and establish a reputation among current and potential clients, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Uma Amuluru, vice present and general counsel at Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business arm, has been appointed as the aerospace company’s chief human resources officer and executive VP of HR.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The latest iteration of the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee will have an eye trained specifically on how artificial intelligence can be used to protect vulnerable populations from unwanted and illegal calls, the agency said Tuesday. While the CAC is charged with advising agency commissioners and delivering formal recommendations on broader privacy and consumer issues, this group will be particularly focused on AI’s defensive potential when it comes to such calls.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Proposed cybersecurity rules that would grant the government “full access” to contractor IT systems in the wake of a cyber incident is causing heartburn among industry groups. The groups are also objecting to the tight cyber incident reporting deadline in proposed cyber rules. They also oppose requirements to use Software Bills of Material (SBOMs). Agencies released the two proposed cybersecurity rules for information and communications technology (ICT) contractors last fall.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

After the dissolution of 147-year-old firm Stroock late last year shook up the legal world, a post-mortem analysis of the data reveals a long list of warning signs preceding the firm’s collapse — and provides some insight into how other firms might avoid the same disastrous fate, says Craig Savitzky at Leopard Solutions.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As 5G continues to transform the wireless communications industry, RK Squared is at the forefront of not only implementing wireless networks but also helping organizations take a proactive approach to their connectivity.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Intel Corporation recently held an event where it launched a new foundry division the company described as “a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era.” Intel said Wednesday that the same event saw the unveiling of a roadmap outlining process node innovation and evolution targets through 2027 that would help Intel Foundry become the No. 2 foundry by 2030.

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