FedTech Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

The Technology Modernization Fund jump-started two major projects of the National Archives and Records Administration that will improve customer and employee experiences. With $9.1 million in TMF funds, NARA will upgrade two outdated IT systems no longer supported by its vendor with new cloud-based software. The new applications improve efficiencies and provide veterans and their families — and hundreds of federal agencies — with faster, more reliable and secure access to records.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 30, 2024

Within the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Division of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis (DMEPA) plays a critical role. DMEPA reviews premarket and postmarket drug labeling to minimize the risk of medication errors. In partnership with FDA’s DMEPA team, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner ICF is developing a machine learning (ML) prototype known as the Computerized Labeling Assessment Tool (CLAT).

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 28, 2024

Science Applications International Corp. has received a $29.3 million requirements contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide information technology services in support of a tactical data exchange system used on airborne platforms.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

A Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) subsidiary has received a five-year, $480 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for the Maven Smart System prototype. The Department of Defense said Wednesday Palo Alto, California-headquartered Palantir USG is expected to complete contract work by May 28, 2029, at work locations yet to be determined.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 29, 2024

Buchanan & Edwards and i3 joint venture BrightPoint LLC has won a position on the Department of Commerce’s Commerce Acquisition for Transformational Technology Services contract. This 10-year contract is valued at $1.5 billion. The Department of Commerce is involved in shaping trade, economic development and technology initiatives in the U.S. The CATTS program falls under the [.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the process of optimizing the output of a large language model (LLM). It references an authoritative knowledge base outside of its training data sources before generating a response. A RAG -based solution lets organizations jumpstart generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications with faster and more cost-effective ways to inject fresh, trusted data into foundation models (FMs), making generative AI easier for businesses to onboard.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 29, 2024

The Department of the Interior has selected four companies for a potential 10-year, $2 billion follow-on contract for cloud license and support services. The awardees under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services 2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract are Accenture Federal Services, Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), Smartronix and Zivaro, according to award notices published Tuesday.

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FedScoop

MAY 28, 2024

The FBI announced awards for the second iteration of a blanket purchase agreement for IT services and supplies Friday, estimating the spend will be $8 billion. A total of 95 entities — 31 large businesses and 64 small businesses — received awards under the sequel to the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services contract, also known as ITSSS, the agency said in an update on SAM.gov.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

The US Federal Government has endless opportunity to lead the way as well as adopt best practices for how the latest technologies, including generative artificial intelligence (AI) , can be leveraged to fulfill its various missions. I’m curious, like many of you, about the opportunities technology provides for National Security in today’s current state.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 29, 2024

Glen Ives will assume the CEO post at Castellum on July 1, taking over Mark Fuller’s role at the Vienna, Virginia-based cybersecurity, electronic warfare and software services company as the latter will step down to pursue other interests.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The benefits of 5G are far reaching, but using spectrum outside the continental United States, or OCONUS, presents a unique set of challenges for military forces.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency said it is “on target” to establish a process to conduct organization-wide cybersecurity risk assessments within the next six months, putting a hard timeline on its long-awaited response to a watchdog report critical of the agency’s cyber posture. An agency spokesperson said in an email to FedScoop that the cyber risk assessment process — recommended to the EPA in a July 2019 Government Accountability Office report — is on track to be finished “by November 22.

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WashngtonExec

MAY 28, 2024

ManTech has promoted Jen Rodriguez vice president of its intel sector division. Rodriguez will report directly to ManTech’s Intel Sector President Barbara Haines-Parmele. Since 2019, Rodriquez served as deputy of this division. In her new role, she is responsible for managing the growth and success of this division and its team supporting the mission-critical client [.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 29, 2024

Eastern Research Group has received an $85.3 million contract to provide environmental collaboration and conflict resolution services to the Environmental Protection Agency. The ECCRS contract will help the EPA Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center implement alternative dispute resolution techniques to prevent and resolve disputes with internal and external parties, according to solicitation documents.

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Government Contracts

MAY 29, 2024

My deep and passionate involvement in playing, writing and producing music equipped me with skills — like creativity, improvisation and problem-solving — that contribute to the success of my legal career, says attorney Kenneth Greene.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

The Technology Modernization Fund jump-started two major projects of the National Archives and Records Administration that will improve customer and employee experiences. With $9.1 million in TMF funds, NARA will upgrade two outdated IT systems no longer supported by its vendor with new cloud-based software. The new applications improve efficiencies and provide veterans and their families — and hundreds of federal agencies — with faster, more reliable and secure access to records.

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Efficiency IT 98

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 25, 2024

International arbitration specialists frequently estimate that national courts give effect to about 90% of all international arbitral awards. Recently, several scholars have set out to empirically test this estimated 90% enforcement rate (see here , here , here , and here ). When they ran their numbers regarding how frequently national courts give effect to awards, however, they found courts giving effect to awards at rates significantly lower than 90%.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Sierra7 and Booz Allen Hamilton have received a contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide professional support services for the Office of Healthcare Transformation’s legislative implementation team. The OHT legislative implementation team requires agile program management support services across several capability areas to support initiatives related to health care legislation, Sierra7 said Wednesday.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Maria Demaree, vice president and general manager of national security space at Lockheed Martin’s space business, recently accepted her 2024 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the accolade. Wash100 annually highlights executives in the government contracting industry who have consistently demonstrated remarkable leadership skills.

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Federal News Network

MAY 29, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a request for proposals that industry finds puzzling. CMS terminated an existing call center contractor after two years. That award had taken three years to establish. CMS is requiring re-compete contractors to have labor harmony agreements. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin looks into this puzzle with the President and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.

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Government Contracts

MAY 30, 2024

The Government Accountability Office publicly released a decision on Thursday in support of a company's protest of a $44.2 million Department of Agriculture task order for software support for conservation-related programs, concluding the order was not properly issued.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 28, 2024

Beverly Roberts began her career in healthcare as a researcher specializing in retroviruses. Her work brought her to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she continued her research while gaining skills in information technology.

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Whistleblower Network News

MAY 28, 2024

As the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) nears the conclusion of its “90-day policy sprint” to develop a whistleblower awards program, whistleblower advocates are making a final push calling on the DOJ to implement best practices found in other successful whistleblower programs. The policy sprint, announced on March 7 , is a process “to gather information, consult with stakeholders, and design a thoughtful, well-informed program,” according to Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Ed Hicks, business development manager for federal and artificial intelligence at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies that intend to implement AI at the edge should consider adopting federated learning to quickly glean insights from data while ensuring the security of critical data. In an article published on Carahsoft.

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FedScoop

MAY 29, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services has designated Micky Tripathi, its national coordinator for health IT, as acting chief artificial intelligence officer while it searches for a permanent replacement, a department spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. “Micky has been a leading expert in our AI work and will provide tremendous expertise and relationships across HHS and externally to guide our efforts in the coming months,” the spokesperson said.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 28, 2024

RELI Group and Hive Group have secured a five-year, $340 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Transportation Security Administration with integrated program management support services. The IPMSS contract covers general program and project management support, acquisition program management support, information technology program management support and financial management and cost-estimating support services, RELI Group said.

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SmallGovCon

MAY 29, 2024

If you’re a contractor thinking about protesting an award decision to the Court of Federal Claims (COFC), you have to show that the agency’s mistake prejudiced you in some way (the same goes for GAO, as we have explored before ). That is, you have to show that there was a substantial chance you would have received contract award if not for the agency’s mistake.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 31, 2024

When the U.S. Census Bureau needed new devices for their workers to survey residents across the country, the organization’s IT leaders wanted to ensure the process of getting those tablets was seamless for tens of thousands of employees. The IT staff didn’t have the resources to install software and set up profiles for each device, nor was it the best use of their time.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

The IRS’s Direct File program is here to stay and will be expanded for the 2025 tax season, the agency announced Thursday. The decision to make Direct File a permanent program comes after a pilot this year that allowed taxpayers in 12 states to electronically file their federal returns directly with the agency at no cost. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement that taxpayers this filing season delivered a “clear message” to the agency in wanting “one no-cost option for filing electron

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Andrea Cruden, formerly a senior director at Northrop Grumman, has joined L3Harris Technologies as vice president of strategy and business development for space systems.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 28, 2024

In May 2022, the European Commission (EC) proposed to set up a European Health Data Space (EHDS). The EHDS will establish a common framework and infrastructure for the use of health data for research, innovation, policy-making, and regulatory activities in the European Union (EU). It will also create common standards and practices enabling EU citizens to better access, control, and share their electronic personal health data.

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Federal News Network

MAY 30, 2024

A rule going back several years lets Defense Department contracting officers treat stuff from so-called non-traditional vendors — known as NCDs — as commercial. Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. For why this matters , The Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Haynes & Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish.

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FedScoop

MAY 30, 2024

The Interior Department this week awarded spots on its latest cloud hosting services contract to seven vendors, estimated to be worth up to $2 billion total over 10 years. The companies that landed awards under Interior’s Foundation Cloud Hosting Services II contract are Accenture Federal Services , IBM , CGI Federal , SAIC , Cognosante , Zivaro and Smartronix.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 30, 2024

Ultra Intelligence & Communications demonstrated its air defense systems integrator platform during a multinational assessment of joint command and control technologies in support of the Marine Corps’ Project Dynamis initiative.

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Whistleblower Network News

MAY 29, 2024

On May 16, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Cape Cod Hospital agreed to pay $24.3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures which failed to comply with procedures to evaluate patient suitability. The settlement resolves whistleblower claims brought forward by Richard Zelman, a physician formerly employed by Cape Cod Hospital, in a qui tam lawsuit.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 29, 2024

With the primary focus on citizen impact workloads, resiliency of applications is of paramount importance for any public-serving organization. For a lot of mission critical workloads, the service provider has to ensure that the entire system and processes are monitored 24/7/365 and notifications and support is maintained round-the-clock. Moreover, there are often stringent legal requirements, adherence to service level agreements (SLAs), and contractual obligations between multiple stakeholders.

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