GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Jennifer Childs was appointed vice president of quality and engineering at HII‘s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, where she has worked for in nearly two decades. HII said Childs will manage and oversee quality programs and ship design, engineering, integrated logistics support and planning yard engineering in her new role, effective Jan.

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GovSpend

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Filtering Best Practices for Quality Bids Some businesses prefer to focus on volume, while others are more interested in high-quality, well-suited opportunities. The post Webinar Recap: Uncovering Quality Opportunities in GovSpend Bids appeared first on GovSpend.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the public sector, it’s a different story because constituents typically cannot turn to a competitor if an agency fails to deliver quality services. In the private sector, it’s often said that if you don’t take care of your customers, somebody else will. ” Jackson, Global Head of Industries at Docusign.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 31, 2024

The technology firm said Tuesday it is developing an Amazon Web Services cloud-based service for CMS' End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System to expedite the collection, analysis and synthesis of patient data to efficiently pair patients with health providers. Department of Health and Human Services.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Verus Aerospace is led by CEO Brian Bentley and combines the resources and expertise of Perfekta, Precision Machine Works, Arden Engineering, Premier Processing and Quality Forming, the

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 25, 2024

Eighty percent of health and quality-of-life outcomes as well as health risks are driven by these factors. We’ve seen participants in the Health Equity Initiative create incredible solutions that effectively address the equity gaps in accessing quality health services. Jacaranda Health is looking to help reduce these numbers.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 2, 2024

John Barnett, a former quality inspector manager for Boeing, was found dead on March 9 in South Carolina. Barnett had internally raised claims concerning quality and safety in Boeing’s manufacturing process. He reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Phillip Pickens has been named vice president of quality and mission assurance at BlueHalo , an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company, he announced on LinkedIn Wednesday. He joined the Arlington, Virginia company from Leidos subsidiary Dynetics, where he worked as quality manager.

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

Sharpe said that the modernized approach for the astronaut application process in concert with the pre-screen assessment “reduced burden on NASA’s HR staff and allied the Astronaut Office to focus on the highest quality candidates in the applicant pool for further evaluation.”

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FedScoop

AUGUST 8, 2024

Most experts agree that the long-term potential of artificial intelligence (AI) depends on building a solid foundation of reliable, readily available, high-quality data. One area where data quality and readiness play a particularly crucial role for federal, state, and local government agencies is identity management.

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FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

“The challenge for Commerce, as an authoritative provider of data, is to ensure that these new AI intermediaries can appropriately access its data without losing the integrity, including quality, of said data,” the notice states.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 10, 2024

RavenTek said Tuesday Burnstein will be responsible for the overall growth strategy, driving business segmentation, sales, research and development as well as quality performance activities.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 15, 2024

government, has promoted Pamela Schoppert, formerly the company’s vice president of human experience and quality, to chief people officer. Citizant, a business and IT products and services provider to the U.S.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 14, 2024

She announced her retirement Friday on LinkedIn and said that Brian Kubik, VP of quality and mission success, will take over as PAC-3 program lead. Brenda Davidson, vice president of the PAC-3 missile programs at Lockheed Martin, is retiring after over 35 years of service at the defense and aerospace company.

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Federal agencies must first establish a data management strategy, focusing on data provenance and lineage, to ensure data quality and prevent the infiltration of "poisoned" data that threat actors may exploit to disrupt AI systems, Nayak wrote in an opinion article Federal News Network published Friday.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 4, 2024

A minor deviation would be declared on a requirement if it does not result in a disadvantage against the procurement entity such as reducing the quality of the required goods , works or service, or violate the rights of other bidders. Thus, deviations from the evaluation requirement could either be material/major or immaterial/minor.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Scale AI wants agencies to convert raw data to AI-ready data, a priority Wang called “crucial” because “AI outputs are only as good as the data that models are trained on, and low-quality data will lead to low-quality outputs.”

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Government Contracts

JUNE 13, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration's chief told a Senate panel Thursday that the regulator has diligently stepped up oversight of Boeing's manufacturing since January's harrowing midair door plug blowout on a 737 Max 9 jet, an incident that prompted multiple probes into Boeing's safety culture and quality control.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 11, 2024

It is concerned with the “what” of public procurement—focusing on procuring goods , services , and works that meet specific requirements, delivered on time, within budget, and at the required quality. This supports not only the public sector entity and its stakeholders but also the broader community.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It will address topics such as documentation, improving metadata, licensing, usage, quality and integrity, Houed told reporters following a panel discussion about AI and data policy at the Data Foundation’s govDATAx event. Other challenges for the department include data sensitivity and transparency, Osborn said.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

To help tackle the issue, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is supporting AirGradient , a manufacturer of affordable and accurate air quality monitors, to launch an air quality tracking program with Mechai Bamboo School. Students from the Mechai Bamboo School pose with one of the air quality monitors. School chairman Mechai Viravaidya.

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The ship's fiscal 2024 docking selected restricted availability work will include labor, equipment, production, testing, quality assurance and other services. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) under a potential $93 million award from the service branch.

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FedScoop

MAY 2, 2024

The goal of this challenge, the bill states, is to produce innovations with AI that “increase the total quality-adjusted life years of those affected or likely to be affected by cancer.” “The AI advancements will improve the quality of life for all Americans. The sky is the limit.”

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The company said Friday it will assist the Execution Analysis Branch of the Budget Execution Division within the USMC Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources in addressing audit issues through data quality improvement efforts.

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Redstone Government Consulting

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Desautel was previously the Assistant Director, Policy and Quality was responsible for the formation, development and issuance of contract audit policy and quality assurance within DCAA and its over 4,000 employees in nearly 300 locations. Jennifer Desautel.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a report released Monday , the GSA’s Office of Inspector General flagged unreliable geospatial datasets that contain “inaccurate latitude and longitude coordinates” and data quality deficiencies, undercutting the agency’s compliance with the Geospatial Data Act of 2018.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, to support the Environmental Quality Program across Alaska and the Pacific Ocean Division Area of Responsibility, including Guam, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Wake Island and the Northern Marianas Islands. Scope of USACE Contract The company said […]

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we’ve discussed in the past, the company has struggled mightily with manufacturing and we’ve had over twenty production quality defects. He stated that his warnings were ignored after he formally warned Boeing leadership of the risk of sending out 737 MAXs and claimed that Boeing was prioritizing production speed over quality and safety.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Department of Labor is spelling out how artificial intelligence can boost job quality without harming the rights of workers, releasing a roadmap this week that aims to empower workforces in underserved communities as use of the emerging technology proliferates.

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FedScoop

JULY 9, 2024

DOT is impressed with the quality of the proposal responses and received more proposals than could be funded under Simplified Acquisition Procedure guidelines,” Robert C. Companies focused on terrestrial radio frequency, map matching, time over fiber, and low-Earth orbit technologies were awarded contracts — which totaled more than $7.2

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FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

Despite the seen-it-all quality to Kaouk’s federal government career, serving as chief artificial intelligence officer and CDO at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission since December has kicked things up a notch. For starters, there’s a machine-learning tool that detects anomalies in algorithms that’s focused on improving data quality.

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Whistleblower Network News

MAY 24, 2024

The passing of Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor fired in retaliation from Spirit AeroSystems after raising safety concerns about the 737 Max jet, on Tuesday, April 30, marks another tragic event in the ongoing Boeing saga. Whistleblower allegations and the passing of another whistleblower continue to swirl around Boeing. Dean is the.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While the merger greatly improved the speed and quality of the software development life cycle, DevOps is not without its challenges. The advent of DevOps processes created an entirely new paradigm for application development by integrating the work of software developers and IT operations professionals.

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FedScoop

MAY 7, 2024

Our new Federal AI Sandbox will help level the playing field, making the high-quality compute power needed to train and test custom AI solutions available to any agency,” he added. Agencies “often lack the computing environment necessary for implementation and prototyping,” Clancy said.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 21, 2024

But that potential downside is mitigated by the technology’s potential to build hyper-specific models without needing an engineer or physician during that development phase — but later coming in to ensure quality patient care. There’s a hospital simulation in Orlando that allows Ronzio and others to “kick the tires on any of our technologies.”

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FedScoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

IGs reported various causes for the ineffective programs, including management accountability issues and gaps in standards and quality control. As a result, the GAO made two recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget related to improving the metrics.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Its mission is to make quality education widely accessible, even to those outside major cities. To provide students with the highest quality learning experience, Metis leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its interactive live streams. Video quality was also a key factor.

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