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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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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Federal News Network

JUNE 10, 2025

Two new initiatives are accelerating General Services Administration progress toward centralizing the procurement of common goods and services, simplifying acquisition processes and saving money. GSA is taking initial steps to set up an Office of Centralized Acquisition Services by recruiting contracting officers to potentially join the new organization.

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USFCR

JUNE 10, 2025

What Is CMMC and Why Does It Matter in 2025 The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification ( CMMC ) is the Department of Defense’s framework for protecting sensitive data in federal contracts. If your business plans to bid on DoD work, CMMC compliance is becoming a requirement. The CMMC 2.0 final rule, published on October 15, 2024, and effective on December 16, 2024, outlines a phased rollout beginning in fiscal year 2025 and continuing through 2028.

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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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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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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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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

The U.S. Army has started soliciting proposals as it plans to award basic ordering agreements, or BOAs, for fiscal year 2025 under the second iteration of a program to acquire logistics support services.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

The former associate general counsel of General Dynamics Mission Systems, who spent more than two decades as a member of the defense and aerospace company's executive leadership, has joined Fenwick & West LLP's government contracts and public sector procurement group.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

The Naval Supply Systems Command has started seeking proposals for a potential $10 billion Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract, or WEXMAC, 2.0 to enhance U.S. operational readiness. According to the notice posted on SAM.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a U.S. Postal Service contractor's $500 million lawsuit accusing USPS of misappropriating its confidential business information and wrongfully terminating their long-running relationship, affirming a lower court's toss of tort and contract claims.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

Aviation Systems Engineering Co., or ASEC, has secured a $294 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost contract from the U.S. Navy for the procurement of engineering services and supplies for naval airborne anti-submarine warfare systems.

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GovLoop

JUNE 10, 2025

Cloud technology, for many years, enticed agencies looking for savings and efficiencies. Organizations pursued “cloud-first” policies that migrated data and applications away from onsite infrastructure and into the control, at least in part, of cloud service providers. But the cloud was too-good-to-be-true for agencies that faced cost overruns — and many did.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

OMNI Federal has won a potential $427 million contract from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency to provide cloud and DevSecOps capabilities for the National Background Investigation Services. DCSA announced the contract award in a notice published Thursday on SAM.gov.

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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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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 10, 2025

May parties contractually dissociate the forum competent to adjudicate annulment proceedings from the seat of the arbitration? In other words, may they choose one city as the arbitral seat while designating the courts of another to entertain proceedings to set aside the arbitral award? This question has been rarely tested in the Brazilian scene, but recently came before the São Paulo Court of Appeals.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 10, 2025

David Shive receives WashingtonExec’s Public Service Award. David Shive, chief information officer for the General Services Administration, was awarded one of WashingtonExec’s Public Service Awards at this year’s Chief Officer Awards. This award recognizes five federal leaders whose careers reflect what public service is really about: showing up, sticking with the mission and doing the hard work — year after year.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice said it "carefully and individually" reviewed thousands of public safety grants before canceling hundreds of the agreements earlier this year and urged a D.C. federal judge to toss a class action contesting the grant terminations.

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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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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 10, 2025

Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer at Intel, said the Department of Defense is expected to issue operational technology-specific zero trust guidance this summer as it works to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of OT systems used to sustain military operations.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 10, 2025

Interview transcribed: Jim Carroll I spent my almost the entirety of my career working for the government, starting out local in Virginia, in Fairfax County, going to the state and eventually going to the federal government. And so I spent the first 20 years of my life working as a government employee. I switched to the private sector for about 10 years and then came back.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 10, 2025

MORSE Corp, a defense technology services provider, has opened a new office in Seattle, Washington. This marks its third location in the U.S. and its first presence on the West Coast. The expansion aims to strengthen support for key Department of Defense clients, including Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport, the company said Friday.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

The U.S. Army has awarded 18 companies positions on a $3 billion firm-fixed-price contract for acquiring energy and water conservation services and reducing energy and water consumption, associated utility costs, and energy and water-related operation and maintenance costs.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

A D.C. federal judge slammed the brakes on the Office of Refugee Resettlement's new documentation requirements for potential sponsors to unaccompanied migrant children, saying it is "substantially likely" that the agency acted arbitrarily and capriciously by not sufficiently justifying the changes.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 10, 2025

On 6 June, Compass Lexecon and Signature Litigation hosted a panel discussion titled “ Innovation through sharing experiences: What arbitration can learn from litigation (and vice versa) ”. The panel was composed of Alan Rozenberg (Compass Lexecon), Julian Delamer (Compass Lexecon), Yvette Austin (Compass Lexecon), Neil Newing (Signature Litigation), and Dan Spendlove (Signature Litigation).

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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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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 10, 2025

Gina Scinta, the deputy chief technology officer of Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said transitioning to post-quantum cryptography is necessary due to adversary efforts to collect encrypted data and leave it in storage until quantum computers capable of breaking current encryption standards become available.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 10, 2025

Mandy Satterwhite, Accenture Federal Services Amanda “Mandy” Satterwhite Managing Director, Cyber Mission Enablement, Accenture Federal Services Amanda Satterwhite’s teams have expanded and scaled zero trust solutions across the Defense Department, delivering enterprise-level resilience across a complex and distributed environment. By integrating advanced identity, access and micro-segmentation strategies, she accelerated DOD’s shift to a proactive cybersecurity posture.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

The U.S. government has urged a Georgia federal judge to dismiss negligent inspection and maintenance claims by the parents of a teen killed when a partition wall at Robins Air Force Base collapsed, arguing they are barred under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

Integration Innovation Inc., or i3, has booked a potential $429 million follow-on contract from the Missile Defense Agency for services associated with the evaluation and assessment of missile defense system capabilities.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 10, 2025

Advanced Concepts Enterprises, or ACEs, has secured a new task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide aircrew instruction support services. Task Order Terms The contract award, valued at $96.7 million, includes a base period and four 12-month options, said the Department of Defense.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2025

The recent revelation that a handful of questions from the controversial California bar exam administered in February were drafted using generative artificial intelligence demonstrates the continued importance of disclosure for attorneys who use AI tools, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JUNE 10, 2025

Our speakers provided a global overview of the hot topics and key trends across customs law and policy. A diverse range of regional trends were spotlighted across the US, EU, UK, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East. This included the ‘new era’ of digitisation and data sharing between customs authorities in the EU, the focus on trade facilitation across Latin America and Africa to promote regional economic growth, the convergence with the Russia sanctions regime in the UK, and enh

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 10, 2025

AllClear Aerospace & Defense has closed a consensual restructuring that aims to enhance its financial position and support the next phase of growth. The global distributor of military aircraft aftermarket components said Monday the comprehensive recapitalization deleverages its balance sheets and incorporates new funds from senior lenders.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

BAE Systems has promoted Tara Olivet to senior vice president of finance. Olivet, who assumed the role on Saturday, is responsible for leading the financial operations of U.S.-based businesses, which generated sales of $16.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 10, 2025

Scott Aukema, Sigma Defense As vice president of marketing at Sigma Defense, Scott Aukema develops and implements strategic, innovative programs to build brand awareness and drive customer engagement and business growth. He brings a growth mindset and years of marketing success to the role. Yet Aukema didn’t always know this would be his path. “I wish I could say that I was one of those people who always knew exactly what they wanted to be, but the truth is, I found my career path by learn

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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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