FedScoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The General Services Administration, in consultation with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, updated its repayment policy for agencies that are seeking to receive financial assistance from the Technology Modernization Fund. In an email acquired by FedScoop, GSA shared that it had updated the TMF’s repayment policy to reflect a new “consistent repayment floor with a minimum of 50% repayment,” with “rare exceptions” decided by the GSA administrator and OMB director.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Building a diverse workforce is about more than ensuring that different demographic groups are represented. There is increasing evidence in the global business community that companies with greater diversity in their employees significantly outperform those with little diversity. The same is true of federal agencies.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program evaluates the security of Cloud Service Offerings, or CSOs, prior to their deployment in U.S. government organizations.

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IT Demand Evaluation Efficiency 111

ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Executive Mosaic is ecstatic to recognize Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer Paul Courtney with the 2024 Wash100 Award. Courtney earns the award due to his growth-minded leadership of DHS acquisition activities, which upholds a commitment to fostering private sector collaboration. Now that the full Wash100 list is available, the popular vote contest has begun.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Michelle Styczynski-Hamblin, a two-decade veteran of RTX (NYSE: RTX) and its former iterations, has been named vice president of APS operations and supply chain at the company’s Raytheon business arm, according to a LinkedIn post published Friday.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

RTX has secured a $75 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce and deliver interceptors designed to enable the U.S. military to neutralize enemy drones. The contract covers the provision of 600 Coyote 2C anti-drone interceptors to support the service branch's counter-unmanned aircraft systems mission, the Army said Friday.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

An interview with Marty Sullivan, Director of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, and Tim Holthoff, Director of the Arkansas Court Information Systems Division Arkansas has long been a national leader in providing public access to court information. Now, the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts is making good use of American Rescue Plan funds to create a better, more user-friendly case management system that will allow for easier public access to court records.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Executive Mosaic is pleased to honor Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines for the fourth consecutive time as an inductee into the Wash100 Award for elite government contracting leaders. In 2024, she is recognized for leading the intelligence community in fighting disinformation and strengthening its resilience.

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Leadership Government Contracts Contract Government 95

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New guidance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office outlining how the agency will analyze inventorship in the age of artificial intelligence stresses the importance of focusing on “human contributions” to innovations. The examination guidance, published for public inspection Monday on the Federal Register, is aimed at providing clarity to agency personnel and stakeholders on how it will analyze inventorship “as AI systems, including generative AI, play a greater role in the innovation process

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To commit to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives, public sector leaders must work through some important considerations related to their workforce, finance processes and policies. Three common challenges agencies can face are: Data fragmentation: This results from organizations’ reliance on multiple systems for human resources (HR) and financial processes, which limits their ability to capture, track and analyze DEIA data.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Around 2010, when the first cloud migration wave was really taking hold in the federal government, the intelligence community was hesitant to fall in line. But what began tentatively has blossomed into a fruitful, near-decade-and-a-half collaboration between commercial providers and the Central Intelligence Agency, said Chief Information Officer La’Naia Jones.

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Government Contract Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This month’s bid protest roundup highlights one decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and two decisions from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

An adverse inference is a penalty that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can enforce as part of a size protest. During a size protest determination, SBA will ask the protested company lots of questions. Sometimes, a protester will not answer those questions, either on purpose or due to oversight. Depending on the circumstances, SBA can apply an adverse inference if a protested company fails to respond to questions.

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Government Contracts Bidding Contract Procurement 84

WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Space exploration is soaring to new heights. In 2023, Congress allocated $25.4 billion to NASA, a 5.6% hike from the previous year. Additionally, lawmakers approved a $26.3 billion budget for the U.S. Space Force. Recognizing that exploring the vast unknown requires a joint effort, the nation frequently collaborates with both GovCon and private space companies. [.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A Pennsylvania federal judge has declined to certify a proposed class of former residents of juvenile facilities operated by Abraxas Youth and Family Services who claim to have suffered mental, physical or sexual abuse between 2000 and the present, saying "fact-finding mini-trials" would be needed to adequately identify members.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Federal employees visiting the General Services Administration’s Workplace Innovation Lab (WIL) might notice photovoltaic panels attached to some of the windows as part of a sustainability initiative. The green PV panels are made from recaptured ocean waste, printed with organic ink and convert absorbed solar rays into electric energy through semiconducting materials.

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Sustainability Innovation 67

Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A Tennessee federal court on Monday approved a settlement requiring Tennessee's Department of Children's Services to ensure undocumented children in its care can timely pursue legal status, resolving allegations the department irresponsibly let children age out of a special pathway to citizenship.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Gregory Fortier was appointed senior vice president of the Army business group at Science Applications International Corp. , where he previously worked as a VP for over two years. He joined SAIC as vice president of its fires, aviation and missile defense business portfolio.

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IT 64

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential four-year, $123.2 million contract to sustain an electronic warfare tool designed to counter radio-controlled improvised explosive devices for the U.S. Navy, Air Force and government of Australia.

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Engineering Electronics Contract Sustainability 64

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As talent shortages grow, job vacancies are commonplace across governmental agencies. Add the challenge of retaining existing talent and government agencies face a perfect storm. Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount. IDP automatically captures data from documents and data sources, then quickly analyzes and organizes this information for further processing.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As technology continues to evolve, rising concerns for space dominance also grow. US Space Force’s top executive, Gen. Chance Saltzman, takes on a crucial role in handling the government’s most pressing problems in space. In 2024, Gen. Saltzman won his second Wash100 award for his exceptional service and contributions in the space sector.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The first Riyadh International Disputes Week (“RIDW”) presents an excellent occasion for international, regional, and local experts and practitioners to meet and exchange their views regarding salient developments in the various areas of dispute resolution. The upcoming Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration Third International Conference and Arbitration (“SCCA24”) on 6 March 2024, which is scheduled as the event highlight of RIDW, will feature a panel discussion on “Sports, Entertainment and T

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Corruption Collaboration IT 59

ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A lack of awareness in education institutions about what constitutes as a cybersecurity issue is one of the most impactful vulnerabilities affecting the sector, according to Tim Boltz , education market program executive at Carahsoft. Another issue affecting the education sector is the plurality of technologies meant to address specific security problems, resulting in "a disconnected mixture of security infrastructure" that makes regulation and management difficult, Boltz said in a colum

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Education Management 59

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Nav Singh, formerly vice president for federal sales at Fornetix, has been promoted to senior VP for global sales at the Frederick, Maryland-based cybersecurity firm. In a LinkedIn post Friday, Fornetix said Singh will continue to grow the company’s core sales segment, including VaultCore, attribute-based access control as well as identity, credential and access management services.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

RB Consulting Inc. , a Frederick, Maryland-based information technology and services company, has won a potential five-year, $35 million contract to provide a Defense Health Agency program management office with a range of support services. RBCI will conduct cybersecurity and risk management framework support, technology assessment and analysis and other services to help the DHA Integrated Clinical Systems PMO, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Scott Weliver has been named vice president and executive client manager for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs at Dewberry. Weliver announced his new role at the architecture, engineering and construction services provider on LinkedIn.

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Engineering Management 59

ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Douglas Munro has assumed the position of vice president and chief accounting officer at technology firm Mercury Systems , transitioning from the role of corporate controller. He succeeds Michelle McCarthy and will oversee accounting operations and financial reporting, Mercury said Thursday.

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Accountability 59

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Albers Aerospace has completed its deal to take over Onepath Systems, a turnkey services provider to the Department of Defense now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the former. As a result of the acquisition, Onepath will become part of Albers’ defense business, strengthening the parent company’s presence in the aerospace and defense markets, Albers said Thursday.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Anduril Industries introduced a new line of imaging and targeting sensors designed for autonomous air vehicles and other airborne combat applications. The company on Thursday launched its Iris family of sensors , which features its proprietary Computational Pixel Imager technology.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tim Greeff, CEO and founder of the National Security Technology Accelerator, is transitioning to president in a move to revamp and expand NSTXL’s leadership team. Mark McIntosh, formerly chief operating officer at NSTXL, will assume the CEO role at the Los Angeles, California-headquartered government technology provider, Greeff announced in a blog post published Thursday.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Northrop Grumman has received a $28.9 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop tactical autonomy capabilities for multi-ship, beyond visual range defensive and offensive air combat missions. A notice posted on SAM.gov states that Northrop will build an AI air combat capability that could work with existing sensors, electronic warfare and weapons within dynamic and operationally representative environments.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rose 0.89% on Feb. 9, 2024, to mark four consecutive winning weeks since the week of Jan. 16. The index that tracks the performance of 30 notable government contractors closed at $4.741.09 or 1.935% higher than a week ago.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory provided a preview of their novel off-board sensing station as part of the service branch's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program. The XQ-67A sensing drone underwent high-speed taxi tests in preparation for flight trials that were originally set for the first half of fiscal year 2024.

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Redstone Government Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Redstone GCI's Deltek Costpoint group is hosting Redstone GCI's Day with Deltek on April 11th. This FREE event will include sessions with Deltek and Redstone Government Consulting experts, networking opportunities, and 4 CPE credits. This year's event includes sessions on CMMC, system audit preparation, and even a live report writing training session.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) courts have traditionally held that arbitration is an exceptional means of resolving disputes. However, in recent years, there has been a significant shift in the UAE courts’ approach with decisions confirming that arbitration is not merely an exceptional means of resolving parties’ disputes, but an equal alternative to litigation.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A Virginia-based communications firm has lost out on a marketing contract for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the U.S. Government Accountability Office ruled that it had not provided a required rate agreement in its quote.

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