FedTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

ServiceNow Federal CTO Jonathan Alboum helps agencies solve problems by harnessing technology for greater efficiency. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Alboum served as CIO for the Department of Agriculture. Previously, he worked in the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, where he supported the creation of a single GSA IT organization, consolidating disparate program elements into a central office.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 10, 2025

Public procurement data is the most widely available cluster of data included in the latest Global Data Barometer. This is encouraging since public contracting is the world’s largest marketplace, covering $13 trillion of spending every year. Given its scope and scale, effective management of procurement is critical to addressing many of the world’s most significant challenges, from climate change to inequality. 41 out of 43 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in this year’

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FedScoop

JUNE 11, 2025

Amazon has received federal authorizations that allow Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama AI models to be used within high-sensitivity government computing environments, the company’s cloud computing division announced Wednesday. The company has achieved FedRAMP “High” authorization as well as at the Defense Department’s Impact Levels 4 and 5 for use of the two foundation models in AWS GovCloud, its government cloud environment, according to a blog post by Liz Martin, Department of Defense direc

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 11, 2025

Recent improvements to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) make it easier for third sector organisations to identify themselves on the platform and for buyers to search for them. Whether you’re a third sector organisation looking to expand your reach or a public sector buyer seeking to maximise social value, these changes create new pathways to partnership that benefit Scottish communities.

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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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Government Contracts Navigator

JUNE 10, 2025

Stephanie M. Harden ● Welcome to The Bottom Line: Cost and Pricing Updates, a new series covering what contractors should know about recent cost and pricing disputes—without the long read! For our inaugural post, we present: Appeal of Gideon Contracting, LLC, ASBCA No. 63561 (May 12, 2025) The Bottom Line: When the Government orders a suspension … Continue reading "The Bottom Line: Cost and Pricing Updates | Act of God or Compensable Delay?

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2025

Dell submitted a blueprint for ensuring the U.S. maintains its global leadership in artificial intelligence in response to the White House’s request for comments on its forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. The blueprint is divided into six core areas: scaling infrastructure, energy resilience and infrastructure modernization, AI workforce development, leveraging AI to boost government efficiency, agile AI governance, and cybersecurity.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 6, 2025

On June 3, Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom spoke about the need for the country to offer whistleblower awards to corporate insiders during a debate on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The head of the SFO, Nick Ephgrave has repeatedly stated his interest in offering whistleblower awards in a way modeled off the highly successful whistleblower programs in the United States.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday released new and tightened guidelines for enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act after a four-month pause on such prosecutions, centering prospective investigations on situations that affect U.S. competitiveness and national security as well as transnational cartels.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 6, 2025

Agencies get a lot of discretion when it comes to evaluating proposals. We’ve explored several different cases where GAO affirmed this principle. However, this principle is not absolute. Contrary to what some might think, there are limits on an agency’s discretion when it comes to how it evaluates proposals. Recently, the Air Force was reminded of this fact in a GAO protest concerning a price evaluation.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides healthcare at 1,380 health facilities across the country, including 170 VA Medical Centers and 1,193 outpatient sites. And while these hospitals and clinics vary in size and technological sophistication, the VA seeks to improve the patient experience through technology at all of them. One way is through the use of digital displays, which are used to relay important health information, support navigation at medical facilities, and provide updates about

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ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

In this type of environment, traditional procurement software and manual processes are insufficient – and many procurement teams are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers. We’ve seen AI take over everyday tools and search engines; AI in Sourcing and Procurement is becoming a strategic tool in our kit, At Ivalua, we are helping global procurement teams integrate AI across the Source-to-Pay process, bringing automation, insight, and agility to every step.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 12, 2025

We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note (SPPN) providing details on how contracting authorities should notify Scottish Ministers of the publication of their annual procurement reports covering the financial year 2024-2025. The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) requires all public bodies who expect to have procurement spend of £5 million or greater on regulated procurements in its next financial year to publish a procurement strategy, or update an existing o

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Government Contracts

JUNE 12, 2025

In this month's bid protest roundup, Thomas Lee at MoFo examines three May decisions from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims examining the court’s jurisdiction to rescind an executive order, the impact of agency error in establishing a competitive price range and application of the late-is-late rule to an electronic filing.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 12, 2025

Imagine you’ve submitted a bid for a procurement that you believe your company is a shoo-in for. Nobody comes close to the experience and skills your company brings to the table. A while later, you learn that the new company down the street was awarded the contract. There clearly must be a mistake. The awardee doesn’t have half the experience your company has in this industry.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 9, 2025

As the VIPs took the stage one after another at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, few gave much thought to the technologies behind the scenes that were needed to ensure the event was a success. Shayna Atkins was a notable exception: She could think of almost nothing else. The founder of a company called AtkCo, which had been hired by a DNC contractor to handle private networking at the convention, Atkins was understandably laser-focused on routers and switches.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 10, 2025

On June 10, a coalition of more than 20 technology safety and whistleblower advocacy groups sent a letter to Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) , chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, calling for the passage of the AI Whistleblower Protection Act. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) last mont h, provides anti-retaliation protections to AI insiders reporting safety concerns to regulators or supervisors and is widely supported by whistleblower

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

If you’re evaluating procurement technology or exploring ways to drive more value from existing systems, chances are you’re looking beyond tactical fixes – you want a smarter, scalable strategy. Spend analysis is often the entry point. That’s because procurement professionals like you are under constant pressure to cut costs, reduce risk, and deliver data-backed insights to the business.

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FedScoop

JUNE 10, 2025

By the end of the year, federal agencies using Amazon Web Services cloud at the secret classified level will have a second region dedicated to their needs, the company announced Tuesday, touting the coming launch as a boon for artificial intelligence innovation for agencies in the national security space. AWS’s forthcoming Secret-West Region will allow federal customers with secret-level workloads to deploy IT architectures in multiple cloud infrastructure regions, aiming to improve the re

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USFCR

JUNE 6, 2025

The HUBZone program is one of the most overlooked shortcuts to winning federal contracts. It gives small businesses a competitive edge by reserving billions in set-aside awards for companies located in historically underutilized areas. If your business qualifies, this is a rare chance to compete in a smaller pool for guaranteed dollars. What does HUBZone mean?

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

Artificial intelligence is making a difference for beleaguered government cybersecurity directors who are facing challenges in hiring qualified personnel and sorting through a high volume of alerts and logs. AI solutions can detect anomalies in cyberspace and track them. It also can flag associated accounts and block them before a human analyst has a chance to respond, says Peter Dunn, federal CTO for CDW Government.

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FedInsider

JUNE 9, 2025

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Join us for a dynamic FedInsider discussion on how mission-centered system design can transform public sector services into improved, outcomes-driven models. As expectations around cost reduction and efficiencies continue to drive change, government and industry leaders must go beyond incremental improvements to reshape how citizen experiences are designed and in fact delivered.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 11, 2025

A new article published by the UK think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) argues that the implementation of whistleblower awards in the UK would transform the country’s sanctions enforcement regime. The article, by RUSI researcher Eliza Lockhart, details the importance of whistleblowers in exposing corporate fraud, noting that “insider disclosures have repeatedly succeeded where institutional oversight failed.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

Booz Allen Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Booz Allen Hamilton, has made an investment in ConductorAI, which offers federal government agencies an artificial intelligence-driven platform for accelerating their modernization initiatives while relying on legacy systems.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 10, 2025

Maximus has announced an upgraded version of its Total Experience Management platform, now integrated with Amazon Web Services capabilities, to help government agencies improve customer service, streamline delivery and boost mission outcomes. In a statement Monday, Derrick Pledger, chief digital and information officer at Maximus, said the AWS integration helps “agencies harness the full potential of emerging technologies.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

Agencies can learn the value of artificial intelligence (AI) in securing systems from Amazon’s success applying the technology internally to its application security review process. Amazon trained its large language models on prior security reviews conducted by senior engineers because their juniors lack their experience and might not do them as well, thereby increasing overall organizational security.

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Capital Edge Consulting

JUNE 11, 2025

Capital Edge Tip Line – June 11, 2025 Tariffs, Duties & Cost Strategy in Government Contracts with Chad Braley – Edition 8 With growing uncertainty around new tariffs, contractors are wondering how to handle potential price shifts and regulatory protections. In this week’s Capital Edge Tip Line, CEO Chad Braley offers practical insights into how federal contractors can prepare, propose, and protect themselves when duties are imposed mid-contract.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 12, 2025

TDR is an Opportunity for Partnership On June 9, 2025, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the mandatory expansion of Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) across GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. The mandatory expansion will begin at the end of June 2025, as a part of MAS Refresh 27 , with 62 product Special Item Numbers (SINs) not currently covered by TDR as well as the cloud services SIN.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 12, 2025

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said the U.S. Army acted reasonably when it rejected a Virginia company's proposal to provide communications support services, agreeing the proposal was light on details needed to explain how the company would perform required work.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

Carahsoft Technology has entered into a new partnership to distribute Torq’s hyperautomation platform, which is designed to automate, manage and monitor security operations center responses at machine speed, to the public sector.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies a multiple award contract with a total value of $1.99 billion for construction services in the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, or NAVFAC, Southeast area of responsibility.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 12, 2025

Interview transcript: Terry Gerton So the Trump administration has been really clear about its intent to make government procurement move faster, be simpler, and bring more commercial-ready products into the government. You’ve got a story here about a protest that seems to add some clarity and maybe some caution about that process. Tell us about what you brought.

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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2025

How to Tender for Construction Work Understanding the UK Construction Industry The building sector in the UK is essential to forming infrastructure and fostering economic expansion. It includes everything from large-scale rail and public sector developments to residential and commercial projects, with contributions from tier 1 contractors throughout the United Kingdom.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

U.S. Department of Defense acquisition programs need to be radically reformed to keep pace with technological advancements and adversaries' adoption of new technologies, the U.S. Government Accountability Office told a House subcommittee Wednesday.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 12, 2025

Virtualitics has announced its inclusion in Palantir’s FedStart program, providing the public sector access to its advanced artificial intelligence platforms and applications. Virtualitics said Wednesday its Integrated Readiness Optimization, or IRO, application suite will be available to national security organizations and government agencies requiring Department of Defense Impact Level 5 compliance.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 12, 2025

A couple FAR notices have removed proposed SBA rules relating to orders on multiple award contracts. This withdrawal seems to have the affect of decreasing the overall application of the small business Rule of Two , as discussed here. However, it only impacts the application of the rule of two to orders under multiple award contracts that were not restricted to small businesses.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Cubic Defense Applications a potential $399 million follow-on firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for P5 Combat Training System logistics support for domestic and international defense customers. With the increasing sophistication of threats, the need for advanced defense capabilities in the air and space domains has never been more urgent.

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