FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s release of encryption standards to protect against future attacks from quantum computers set in motion new work for government and industry to implement those algorithms. As that process begins, federal officials discussing the migration are highlighting the importance of actions such as prioritizing high-value assets, working toward “crypto agile” systems, and purchasing compliant tools.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For the past several years, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Program has faced a funding crisis. An emergency fix passed by Congress in 2021 is set to expire at the end of September and the hugely successful program is in danger of collapsing. Whistleblower advocates are calling on Congress to act immediately and pass another emergency fix to save the program.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

GE Appliances is a subsidiary of Haier Smart Home, a Shanghai-based company that purchased them from GE in 2016. Until. The post Advancements & Adjustments in the GE Appliances Supply Chain appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Native American tribes and tribal agencies looking to benefit from artificial intelligence and advancements in healthcare IT must prioritize cybersecurity and IT modernization, according to CDW technology experts, citing a recent Indian Health Service implementation as an example. “IHS is planning for a new electronic health record, and as a part of this implementation, there will be some transition to the cloud.

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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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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The White House is pursuing several new efforts meant to advance U.S. leadership on artificial intelligence, announcing Thursday the creation of a new task force on data center infrastructure and related measures following a meeting with several executives of leading AI and tech companies. The meeting centered on key aspects of the physical infrastructure required to build AI infrastructure in the U.S., including clean energy permitting and workforce requirements — priorities that seemingly echo

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A U.S. whistleblower attorney is in Geneva, Switzerland to address the United Nations Human Rights Council , highlighting the essential role of whistleblowers in defending human rights and fighting corruption worldwide and stressing the importance of stronger legal frameworks. On September 11, Stephen M. Kohn , founding partner of the Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of National Whistleblower Center , was featured as a keynote speaker in the Institute for Human Rights event “

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Whether an organization is hybrid or fully remote, having a digital-first culture and strategy for collaboration is a wise move for ensuring employees are able to do their work in any setting, at any time. This means prioritizing tools and technology that enable an agency to create a digital experience that is scalable, secure, reliable and cost-effective. 1.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking organizations to provide information about artificial intelligence technologies for use in health care outcomes and service delivery as it plans demonstration events. In a request for information announced earlier this week, CMS said it wants to gather information about AI products and services from health care companies, providers, payers, start-ups and others, and plans to eventually select organizations to provide demos of those technol

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Cities and counties should take a close look at their entire IT setup to ensure security against cyber threats, says Josh Koenig , co-founder & chief strategy officer at Pantheon , a website operations platform that offers tools that enable building Drupal and WordPress cloud-based sites with streamlined workflows, scalable infrastructure, and a fast, efficient content delivery network.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The fourth initiative of the Army’s recent software modernization memo is to adopt a sustainment model that is focused on continuous improvement and development. To achieve that goal, the Army is creating a cadre of contracting experts to lead this culture change. Jamie MacGillis, an advisor for the Digital Capabilities Contracting Center of Excellence (DC3oE) at the Army Contracting Command’s Aberdeen Proving Ground , said the Army initially is sending reinforcements to several program executiv

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A surge in laptop sales expected in 2025 will impact other workstation accessories used in offices and by hybrid workers. The surge will be fueled in part by the migration to Windows 11 from Windows 10 and Microsoft’s end of support for the latter, says John Mardinly, product performance manager for connectivity technology company StarTech.com. Agencies began clamoring for new laptops when remote work increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inventory was constrained due to supply chain issue

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As the clock winds down on the deadline for federal agencies to implement various zero-trust architecture measures, the General Services Administration is cruising to the finish line and eyeing new cybersecurity priorities. Completing those requirements ahead of the Sept. 30 end date was made possible by the agency starting its zero-trust mission “many years” before the 2021 cybersecurity executive order , its top IT official said in an interview.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

On September 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Deere & Company, which does business as John Deere, agreed to pay nearly $10 million to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The SEC alleges that Wirtgen Thailand, a wholly owned subsidiary of John Deere, paid bribes in Thailand in order to obtain business.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Up to 60% of all federal procurement spending happens at the end of the fiscal year, leaving little time for the government to conduct thorough contractor performance assessments. And while self-assessments have emerged as a potential solution to the challenges of the contractor performance assessment ratings reporting process, Michael Derrios, the senior procurement executive at the State Department, said vendors rarely submit their self-assessments.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency plans to launch a competition for a blanket purchase agreement to provide program management and operations support services for its Stakeholder Engagement Division.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A former Internal Revenue Service IT staffer pleaded guilty this week to accepting bribes in exchange for helping people he knew and their businesses land and keep contract work with the tax agency, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. Satbir Thukral, 62, of Germantown, Md., conducted two bribery schemes over four years in his capacity as a computer engineer supervising IT subcontracts for the IRS, according to the DOJ.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Parsons has secured a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to design and build new housing units in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The three-year, single-award contract is valued at $68.5 million, the company said Monday.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Next month, the Association of Commercial Space Professionals will be hosting the Space Nuclear Policy Summit in Washington D.C. It aims to get the two sides together, both nuclear and space, to help with some lingering questions. The future of space travel is going to require the aid of nuclear power, beyond the technical requirements for that are the regulatory and fiscal matters to deal with first.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A surge in laptop sales expected in 2025 will impact other workstation accessories used in offices and by hybrid workers. The surge will be fueled in part by the migration to Windows 11 from Windows 10 and Microsoft’s end of support for the latter, says John Mardinly, product performance manager for connectivity technology company StarTech.com. Agencies began clamoring for new laptops when remote work increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inventory was constrained due to supply chain issue

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Federal Highway Administration said in a posting to the Federal Register on Tuesday that it would adopt the Cyber Security Evaluation Tool, a voluntary program created by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency designed to help organizations understand their cybersecurity posture. The agency said in its announcement that it’s often called in to deal with cyber incidents, particularly around its work with federal and state agencies “whose primary missions revolve around securing

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of IBM’s new flagship office at One Madison Avenue in New York. The new 270,000-square-foot office, which will house over 2,000 New York-area employees, will feature a 22,000-square-foot Innovation Studio, where the latest technologies will be presented through immersive experiences, IBM said Friday.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In August, the Small Business Administration issued a proposed rule that was packed to the brim with changes to many of the SBA’s small business contracting programs. We’ve mentioned a few of the changes in prior blog posts. Gregory Weber, discussed potential changes to the SBA’s 8(a) Business Development Program that may result in more relaxed requirements.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On September 11, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Office announced that the Initial Claim Evaluation (ICE) team from the Small Business/Self-Employed Division (SB/SE) had joined the Whistleblower Office as part of its new organizational structure. The restructuring is part of efforts to strengthen the IRS Whistleblower Program, a hugely successful whistleblower award program that has been hampered by issues in recent years.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms towards entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Battelle, a global research and development company, and subcontractor CMC Pharmaceuticals have been awarded a 6.5-year, $53 million contract by the Department of Defense to develop a nerve agent countermeasure. The deal aims to ensure that U.S. military personnel have a stronger chance of surviving and recovering from nerve agent exposure, Battelle said Monday.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Buy Indian Act is a law that gives contracting preference to companies owned by Native American tribes. This law has been on the books for a century and it seems to be finally getting some teeth through regulatory changes and updates. This webinar, presented by myself and Nicole Pottroff will discuss the Buy Indian Act, as well as other rules and regulations that provide advantages to tribal entities.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Although often seen as theoretical, the recognition and enforcement of annulled arbitral awards remain a fascinating issue in international arbitration. As the text of the New York Convention (“NYC”) provides limited guidance, there has been substantial consideration in both academic commentaries and national court decisions. While global arbitration hubs such as Paris, London, or Singapore have a well-developed case-law on the enforcement and recognition of foreign arbitral awards, the approach

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Walgreens has agreed to pay $106.8 million to settle claims across three lawsuits that it violated the False Claims Act and state laws for billing government health programs for prescriptions it never dispensed, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has agreed to buy threat intelligence company Recorded Future from private equity firm Insight Partners for $2.65 billion to broaden its identity, fraud prevention and cybersecurity services.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Happy Friday the 13th! We hope you have a good week. This week has been busy in the federal government contracting world with multiple developments highlighting key areas of government procurement, spending transparency, and small business support. There are updates on a new federal spending bill, but also concerns about a shutdown, something contractors will be watching closely.

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WashngtonExec

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In this episode of “Humble Beginnings,” Cass Panciocco, president and CEO of IntelliBridge, joins us to share a bit about his upbringing in working-class Boston, what it was like sharing a modest home with seven other family members, the work ethic values he learned at a young age helping his father at carpenter job sites, [.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Navient Corp. would be barred from servicing federal student loans and required to pay $120 million to settle allegations related to its student lending practices under a proposed settlement the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Accenture Federal Services has secured a potential $1.59 billion task order from the U.S. Air Force for enterprise-scale cloud service provider reseller and software management support services.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With an accelerated leap in our post-COVID world, mobile devices such as cell phones have become a crucial part of the landscape for remote workers and in turn have also become a key component of today’s attack surface. This week on Feds At the Edge, leaders from the Federal and commercial sectors share vulnerabilities in the devices we bring from home, and the popular apps that put our sensitive data into the wrong hands.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The doctrine of immunity from execution, viewed as the “ last bastion of State immunity “, has traditionally shielded sovereign assets from being used to satisfy adverse arbitral awards. While municipal laws on State immunity vary, the dominant view in modern international legal practice is that a State’s consent to arbitration, whether under a treaty or a contract, constitutes a waiver of immunity from jurisdiction, but not from execution.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security's top lawyer has resigned from his position in the administration, according to a LinkedIn post.

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