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From 5-7 March 2025, South Korea’s Public Procurement Service hosted an extraordinary conference featuring centralized purchasing agencies from over half of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states, from North America, Europe and Asia. The conference presentations , available for download here , addressed next steps for central purchasing bodies, including in sustainability , procurement-for-innovation and artificial intelligence (AI).
Government customers expect the technology resellers they work with to employ certain sustainability practices, such as IT asset disposition, to maintain compliance with environmental, cybersecurity and human rights regulations. IT asset disposition refers to the handling of retired IT equipment, whether its recycled or repurposed for reuse, which extends the life of the hardware.
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Anduril Industries has won a potential 10-year, $642.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to install, deliver and sustain Installation-Counter small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or IC-sUAS, at Marine Corps bases worldwide. The Department of Defense said Friday Marine Corps Systems Command launched a competitive procurement process and received 10 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
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Databricks, a data, analytics and artificial intelligence company, is integrating its data intelligence platform with the AI ontology system of Palantir Technologies under a strategic partnership between the two companies.
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Ross Graber, a Twitter and Google alum, is now the Department of Energys chief information officer, sources confirmed to FedScoop. Graber comes to government after a long career in the private sector, where his experience includes managing Googles security and privacy technical program for four years and joining Twitter before it became X as an information security manager and then a risk and data analytics senior manager, according to his LinkedIn.
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In a previous post , we looked at Indonesia Corruption Watch s method for monitoring corruption risks in procurement. Now lets work through an example following their six step process. An ICW investigation in 2021 revealed potential fraud risks in the construction of a faith-based community center in the province of South Sulawesi, with a contract value of about US$1 million (Rp. 19 billion). 1.
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