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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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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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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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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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

JUNE 9, 2025

The government asked a New York federal judge to impose a collective $706 million in civil penalties on Omnicare Inc. and its parent, CVS Health Corp., after a jury found that they submitted millions of false billing claims for healthcare programs.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

The Naval Facilities Systems Command Northwest has issued a notice seeking information on interested vendors for the Waterfront Multiple Award Construction Contract, with a potential value of $700 million. According to the notice posted on SAM.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Kim Lynch, executive vice president of government defense and intelligence at Oracle, has accepted the 2025 Wash100 Award for being a champion for innovation and for providing agencies with cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities that meet mission-critical needs.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 9, 2025

Derrick Pledger, Maximus Maximus has launched an updated version of its customer experience platform, Total Experience Management, powered by Amazon Web Services. Originally released in 2024, Maximus TXM gives agencies a single, FedRAMP-authorized solution to modernize CX. In partnership with AWS, Maximus uses services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Lex and Amazon Textract to support intelligent document processing, AI-assisted interactions, topic mining and sentiment analysis.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

The U.S. Navy has exercised the fourth option under a potential $3.2 billion contract it awarded to Raytheon Missiles & Defense in 2022 for hardware production of the AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars. The RTX business segment secured a $646.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

Highlight Technologies announced that it has earned the “Awardable” status on the Department of Defense’s Platform One Solutions Marketplace. The secure application development and cloud-native infrastructure services company said Wednesday the designation enables government agencies to easily access and adopt its Asset Tracking and License Acquisition for Software, or ATLAS, technology.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 9, 2025

Enforcing arbitral awards has been a recurring topic throughout the London International Disputes Week (“LIDW”) events. Just when the enforcement regime appears to be stabilizing, new challenges continue to emerge. With globalisation and the rise of new market economies, asset distribution is more international than ever. The enforcement of awards involves interactions with various professionals, including lawyers, financial experts, funders, and investigators.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted provisional Impact Level 4 authorization to Qlik Cloud Government – DoD, an end-to-end analytics platform for the Department of Defense, combat support agencies, combatant commands and the defense industrial base.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Government technology firm SMX has appointed Scott Barr, a federal contracting industry veteran, as chief operating officer. In this capacity, Barr will join the SMX executive leadership team and work with the CEO on strategic initiatives to accelerate growth, scale delivery capabilities, optimize operational performance, and ensure mission-focused outcomes for customers across the company’s portfolios.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

Talkdesk has secured a key certification from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the government edition of its artificial intelligence-powered customer experience platform. Tiago Paiva, the company’s CEO, said in a statement Thursday that the FedRAMP authorization enables more government agencies to implement Talkdesk CX Cloud Government Edition.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 9, 2025

On 12 November 2024, an ICSID tribunal rendered its award in the case of Telefónica S.A. v. Republic of Colombia. At its heart, the case concerns the protection of foreign investors’ legitimate expectations under a bilateral investment treaty (“BIT”), and, more unusually, the international legal consequences of a decision by a national constitutional court affirming the unconstitutionality of legal provisions in domestic law.

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GovTribe

JUNE 9, 2025

Washington Technology just released its annual list of the top 100 prime contractors in federal tech , ranked by FY24 contract awards. Here are five easy ways GovTribe can help you learn about these primes and improve your GovCon strategy. (Don’t have a GovTribe account? Start a free trial.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

Amazon Web Services has launched AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government – Integrated, or ZTAG-I, a reference architecture designed to fast-track the adoption of zero trust architecture within federal agencies.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 9, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a California federal judge's order barring implementation of layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, several unions and nonprofits argued Monday, claiming a decision allowing the changes would irreversibly harm the federal government and render Congress and the judiciary powerless.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has introduced a new set of Claude Gov large language models designed to support U.S. national security clients. Anthropic said Friday that its Claude Gov models were developed using feedback from government customers to help address “real-world operational needs.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

William “Bud” McKay shared on LinkedIn Friday that he has been appointed vice president of programs at General Dynamics NASSCO. In his new role, McKay will oversee the company’s New Construction Program Management. The long-time NASSCO executive will leverage over 15 years of experience in program management.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 9, 2025

A transgender woman urged a veterans appeals court Monday to find that the Veterans Health Administration is wrongly refusing to refill her prescriptions for hormone therapy following a federal notice discontinuing gender-affirming care for veterans.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 9, 2025

Srini Attili, SAIC Srinivas “Srini” Attili spent his early years in a small village in India, where career dreams rarely stretched beyond what you could see. For him, that didn’t include IT modernization or executive leadership. Those worlds didn’t exist — not visibly, anyway. That changed the summer he discovered computers. A government-sponsored technology camp popped up in his town.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

The aeronautics division of defense company Lockheed Martin will work to support the avionics modernization program of the U.S. Air Force’s C-5M Super Galaxy transport aircraft fleet under a sole source, cost-plus-fixed-fee firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract action valued a maximum of $56 million.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 9, 2025

Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of AWS HealthLake to the EU (Dublin) Region , marking a significant milestone in our commitment to supporting healthcare organizations across the European Union (EU). This expansion enables European healthcare providers, insurers, health technology, and life sciences companies to store, transform, and analyze their health data in Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) standards while maintaining data residency within the EU.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 9, 2025

On June 1, The Guardian reported that politically appointed officials of the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) criticized two VA scientists for authoring a report that, according to the officials, painted the Administration in a bad light. The report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, voiced that federal cuts to the VA could negatively impact veterans’ respiratory health.

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USFCR

JUNE 9, 2025

Laura Ramones brings a seasoned sales background and strong communication skills to her role as a Registration & Contracting Specialist at US Federal Contractor Registration (USFCR). She specializes in understanding each client’s goals and guiding them through the complexities of federal contracting with clarity and confidence. Her ability to communicate effectively and provide tailored solutions helps clients move forward with a clear path to growth.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 9, 2025

The government has asked a California federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its termination of legal services programs for immigrant unaccompanied minors, arguing that the case is essentially a contract dispute the court lacks authority over.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 9, 2025

Daniel Keller receives his 2025 Chief Officer Award. Daniel Keller, vice president of ECS’ service delivery teams, has won WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Award for Artificial Intelligence Executive of the Year (Public & Private Company). On June 4, WashingtonExec unveiled the winners of the 2025 Chief Officer Awards , its premier recognition of the executives shaping the future of government contracting.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 9, 2025

New Jersey told a federal judge on Monday that it was clear E.I. du Pont de Nemours discharged "forever chemicals" into the Delaware River, wrapping up the majority of a first-of-its-kind series of bench trials over whether the company is liable for contamination at a longstanding manufacturing facility.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Business advisory and accounting firm Aprio has acquired Nextfed and O’Connor Consulting Services, or OCS, for an undisclosed sum to accelerate growth in the government services market and nonprofit industry.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 9, 2025

Quantum Systems has opened a new 135,000-square-foot production and integration facility in California to meet the growing demand for tactical uncrewed aerial systems in support of defense and security partners across North and Latin America.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

SecuriGence, acquired by Chenega in 2024, has landed a $174.2 million contract modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue providing IT multi-network support services. Contract Details The Department of Defense said Friday the modification raises the cumulative value of the task order from $524.2 million to $698.4 million.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 9, 2025

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and its attorney Sashi C. Bach are facing a disqualification bid in a Florida state court case between pharmaceutical mass tort firms and their former counsel, with the suing firms arguing that Boies Schiller cannot represent its co-defendants because of a conflict.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 9, 2025

Generative AI holds the potential to transform the public sector landscape with innovative capabilities for content creation, decision support, and citizen services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides organizations seeking to use generative AI with many tools, ranging from the required infrastructure to build and train foundation models (FMs) to fully developed generative AI assistants.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 9, 2025

Industrial manufacturing and technology company Crane Co., led by K&L Gates LLP, announced plans Monday to acquire Precision Sensors & Instrumentation from energy technology company Baker Hughes, advised by Baker McKenzie, for roughly $1.15 billion in cash.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Marc Shepard, a more than two-decade General Dynamics Land Systems veteran, has joined Rafael Systems Global Sustainment as vice president and general manager. New Michigan Office RSGS said Thursday Shepard will oversee the new office in Sterling Heights, Michigan, to help meet the needs of defense, government and industry customers.

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