GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
U.S. government representatives have been largely bullish, at least publicly, about the benefits of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, while also acknowledging its risks and misuses.
FedTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Hyperconverged infrastructure offers agencies a chance to bolster their edge computing capabilities by enhancing security, reducing costs and improving management — even in the most unconventional locations. The evolving demands of data management and processing at the edge have more agencies looking to HCI, particularly as technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning become more prevalent.
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American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
New systems installations need to go smoothly, says Steve Witt , director of public sector at Nintex , a global provider of process and workflow automation software with clients that include public sector entities, including the U.S. Department of Defense, city of Denver, the federal Veterans Administration and the U.S. Air Force. Go to the following link for information on Nintex’s work with governments.
GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has won a Department of Defense contract worth approximately $794.6 million to provide Adobe Enterprise software licenses, related upgrades, modernization and maintenance support services for users across DOD.
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ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Anduril Industries estimates that its Autonomous Surveillance Towers, or ASTs, now cover 30 percent of the 100-kilometer U.S. southern land border. The company cited the estimate as it announced on Thursday the deployment of the 300th Anduril AST to support the homeland security functions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
FedScoop
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Election season is here, and politics, rather than policy, is in the spotlight. With lawmakers preoccupied with the upcoming elections in November, the prospect of major new legislation working its way through Capitol Hill is slim to none. However, innovation in potentially disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence won’t pause for the election.
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ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A request by Iridium to make extending the functionality of narrowband internet of things for non-terrestrial networks an official part of the Work Plan for 3GPP Release 19 — set for completion by the fourth quarter of 2025 — has been approved by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project.
AWS Public Sector
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The data challenge and opportunities Whether it’s a new innovative medicine which follows a journey from lab to patient or a generic or medical product which goes from a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility to a patient, ensuring faster discovery, delivery, and availability of medicines is both critical and challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how supply strain of essential medical products or the discovery and delivery of vaccines impacted our lives.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
HII has appointed Nanda Ramanujam, a technology and strategy executive in the aerospace and defense industry, as vice president of strategic technology initiatives and artificial intelligence operations. Ramanujam announced his new position at the engineering and defense technology company in a LinkedIn post published Thursday.
The Coalition for Government Procurement
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The Coalition is thrilled to unveil the agenda for the governmentwide day of our 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! The governmentwide day on November 20 will feature expert panels addressing “what’s next” after the election for the future of federal procurement. Attendees will gain insights into a range of timely topics, including the next steps for procurement policy and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the evolving budget and market landscape, and
GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Tiffanny Gates, operating partner at Capitol Meridian Partners and former CEO of Novetta, was appointed chairman of the board of directors of Clarity Innovations. The company said Thursday Gates is responsible for providing Clarity leadership with advice on strategic growth, product development and merger integration.
Kluwer Arbitration
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Continuing the central theme of the CBAr 23rd International Arbitration Conference, focused on discussing “Arbitration and Infrastructure,” the two panels held on September 3rd, 2024 were focused on the rendering of technical evidence in infrastructure disputes and the impact of foreign investment and sustainability in Brazil—topics of great complexity, yet essential for the continued development of Brazilian practice in infrastructure disputes.
GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
James Milam was elevated to the role of senior vice president of business development operations at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), the executive announced on LinkedIn Thursday. He will oversee a multidisciplinary team focused on capture management, proposal management, strategic pricing, price-to-win, government-wide acquisition contracts management, competitive intelligence and business analytics.
Kluwer Arbitration
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The 23rd CBAr IAC was a resounding success. The second day of the Conference included a first Panel on the Circulation of Contractual Models and Infrastructure Arbitrations, a second Panel on Contractual Incompleteness and Infrastructure Arbitrations, and a third Panel on the Limits of Consent, Arbitrability, and Judicial Review in Infrastructure Arbitrations.
GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Government technology company Raft has appointed four military leaders to its newly established federal advisory board to provide guidance and insights as it pursues growth and expands in the U.S. defense and national security sector.
Kluwer Arbitration
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
From 1st to 3rd September 2024, the Brazilian Arbitration Committee—CBAr held its 23rd International Arbitration Conference (“23rd CBAr IAC” or “Conference”) in Brasília, Brazil’s federal capital. The theme of this year’s Conference was “Arbitration and Infrastructure.” The Organizing Committee, composed of both the current and previous CBAr Board members, succeeded in providing a program that addressed various critical topics: (i) the most common contractual discussions in infrastructure contra
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A New Orleans resident and his home inspection company were indicted in Louisiana federal court Friday on charges that he operated a yearslong scheme of taking bribes to let unlicensed electricians work on hundreds of homes and briba top city official to look the other way.
Capital Edge Consulting
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
In government contracting, maintaining a DCAA-approved accounting system is crucial. The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) enforces strict guidelines to ensure that contractors’ accounting systems meet the standards required for compliance. Understanding these requirements not only helps in securing government contracts but also in avoiding costly penalties or contract termination.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
An artificial intelligence company has asked the Federal Circuit not to revisit a high-profile decision reviving the firm's protest over its exclusion from a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency procurement, saying the original ruling fit within the circuit court's precedent.
SmallGovCon
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Happy Friday and happy fall! We hope you had a productive week and are looking forward to the weekend. The federal government contractors have been quite busy wrapping things up at the end of this fiscal year and preparing for a new one to begin. We hope everything is “falling” into place. Have a great weekend! This week in federal government contracting news looked at a new CR, cloud procurement requirements, and another push towards category management.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Acadia Healthcare will pay $19.85 million to settle allegations it billed false claims to the federal government for medically unnecessary behavioral health services provided to patients who weren't even eligible for treatment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Agile Space Industries announced the completion of a fully subscribed financing round led by Lockheed Martin Ventures, which had participated in the company’s seed round in 2023.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
An advocate for lowering drug prices squared off Friday against a former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director about the potential risk of accepting government funds to develop drugs, as part of a discussion at New York University School of Law.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
HawkEye 360 has secured a contract extension and a $2.5 million task order from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to continue providing radio frequency mapping support and other services.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The former police chief in Newington, Connecticut, dropped his demand for attorney fees arising from the dismissal of defamation claims against him after the plaintiffs decided not to pursue him any further and a state court judge ordered that, in order to collect, his lawyer may have to testify at an upcoming hearing.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Portal26 and Carahsoft Technology are partnering to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning risk services to the public sector. Carahsoft said Thursday it will be the Master Government Aggregator for Portal26 and distribute its Trust, Risk and Security Management platform to government agencies.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The Federal Circuit on Friday refused to revive a contractor's $5.9 million dispute over a Medicare recovery audit task order, saying the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reasonably terminated the deal and didn't owe the company any more money.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a follow-on contract to produce and deliver the next generation of an electronic warfare tool designed to counter improvised explosive devices and hostile unmanned aircraft systems. The JCREW/DRAKE 2.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A government watchdog said in a report Friday that the U.S. Department of Energy should heed experts who say the agency could save billions of dollars by distinguishing between high- and lower-level waste at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington, one of the biggest cleanups in the world.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Ultra Intelligence & Communications has secured a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to support the Program Executive Officer Land Systems. The $39 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is a recompete for the Marine Corps’ Common Aviation Command and Control System, the Autin, Texas-headquartered company said Thursday.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
In the four decades since Congress passed the Hatch-Waxman Act in an effort to make generic drugs more available, the pharmaceutical industry has used patent thickets, "evergreening" and pay-for-delay tactics to block competition and keep prices of life-saving specialty drugs astronomical, several legal experts told Law360, while the industry argues other parties shoulder more of the blame.
ExecutiveBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
RTX business Raytheon has received a $126.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce and deliver Stinger missiles. Under the agreement, Raytheon will also provide ancillary equipment and support services to help the Army operate the man-portable anti-aircraft weapons, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has chided defense contractors for seeking to "sabotage" efforts to require them to cough up parts and data allowing the U.S. Department of Defense to repair its own equipment, while urging the DOD to take action on related restrictions.
GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $422.2 million contract valued to provide logistics, sustainment, project management and engineering services in support of the Czech Republic’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
Government Contracts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A Colorado federal judge on Thursday declined to throw out a malicious prosecution claim by a former elected district attorney alleging his disbarred successor falsely charged him with felony embezzlement, concluding that the disbarred prosecutor is not entitled to absolute or qualified immunity.
GovCon Wire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The Intelligence Community is in the midst of a major effort to become a data-centric, interoperable team of organizations. This push is shaped by new technologies and new approaches to information sharing, but leaning into the tools needed to unlock the benefits of data requires trust and assurance.
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