AWS Public Sector

JUNE 11, 2025

As healthcare regulations push for greater interoperability and the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), they are under pressure to modernize data infrastructure not just in theory, but in practice. The challenge is not just technical, but also regulatory, operational, and strategic. At the center of this shift is the need to transform disconnected clinical, claims, and observational data into structured formats that can support real-time exchange and intelligent analysis.

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USFCR

JUNE 11, 2025

Smart contracts are self-executing code that follow if-then rules on a blockchain. They do not replace the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); they carry it out automatically. Agencies are already testing how these tools can confirm milestones, release payments, and log every step for easy audits. For vendors, this could cut weeks from payment cycles and provide a permanent record of performance.

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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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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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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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Federal News Network

JUNE 11, 2025

Interview transcript: Terry Gerton You’ve been reporting on some interesting developments in defense procurement. Let’s start with the review of 72 major acquisition programs for potential cuts. What are you seeing happening there? Barbara Kinosky Well, this is pursuant to one of the many executive orders that have come out of this administration.

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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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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

Healthcare technology company Omnicell Inc. has agreed to pay more than $4.3 million to settle allegations it fraudulently overcharged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for medical products and software, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 11, 2025

Through a series of directives released last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been pushing the department to reduce reliance on outside IT consulting and management services firms and instead increase its in-house capabilities in an effort to reduce waste and improve efficiency. All new IT and management services contracts worth over $10 million now require approval from the deputy secretary of Defense — DoD components must submit a cost-benefit analysis, evidence that alternatives were

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

The U.S. Government Accountability Office found no problems with the Air Force's decision to issue a $116 million task order for intranet support services to Abacus Technology Corp., denying a protest lodged by a Virginia-based competitor.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

NOBLE has won a position on a potential $500 million U.S. Army contract to provide commercial-off-the-shelf items and equipment for the service branch’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense, or JPEO CBRND.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

A group of nonprofits and cities asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider its decision blocking an order that restored 32 congressionally funded grants frozen by the Trump administration, arguing Tuesday that the circuit's approach "would enable the Executive Branch to evade judicial review and unconstitutional actions to go unchecked.

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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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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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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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GovTribe

JUNE 11, 2025

Learn how to search GovCon data in your own words with GovTribe’s semantic search feature.

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2025

How can we ensure that the voices of the public truly shape the policies that govern their lives? Engaging the public effectively in policymaking and planning is crucial for creating inclusive and representative policies. Fortunately, emerging digital tools enable agencies to reach a broader audience as well as gain more feedback and public engagement.

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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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American City & Country

JUNE 11, 2025

Big city mayors say eliminating Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program funding could lead to the loss of thousands of existing shelter beds across the state.

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FedInsider

JUNE 11, 2025

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Katie Arrington, the acting CIO for the Department of Defense, is fiercely determined to enforce the requirements of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), considering it a primary defense against China’s cyber incursions – and one she expects the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to meet.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

By Nancy Patel, General Manager of Commercial at Unison It starts with an email. A few lines of text—a DOGE request. And a deadline that assumes you’ve been ready for this moment your entire career. Somewhere, someone hits “forward,” and the scramble begins. Welcome to the data call. The government wants answers fast.

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FedInsider

JUNE 11, 2025

June 27, July 10, July 29, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 3 Hours | 3 CPE Today’s phishing attacks target much more than email; they exploit every mobile channel – h SMS, Signal, social platforms and QR codes to reach your users. Mobile phishing (“smishing”) and QR based attacks (“quishing”) are engineered to bypass traditional endpoint defenses to exploit human behavior.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

A Georgia hospice care provider and its CEO forked over $9.2 million to settle claims that they violated federal fraud laws by participating in a kickback scheme with medical directors who referred hospice patients to the group, prosecutors announced Wedesnday.

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FedInsider

JUNE 11, 2025

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 60 Minutes | 1 CPE There have been several cyber attacks recently that were launched through users’ mobile devices, often targeting high-profile government officials. For instance, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint statement in November 2024 that their ongoing investigation into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure revealed a broad and sig

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

U.S. corporations with business interests south of the border are increasingly worried about exposure to terrorism-related criminal charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with cartels linked to major business sectors throughout Mexico, from energy and manufacturing to financial services, compliance experts tell Law360.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 11, 2025

Cloud security company Zscaler has achieved Amazon Web Services independent software vendor competencies in health care, education and subcategories national security and defense, public safety, and citizen services.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority is urging a federal court to throw out Title VII and Age Discrimination in Employment Act claims in a suit by a former contract monitor who alleges she was fired for whistleblowing.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 11, 2025

Ultra I&C will provide its Archer troposcatter system to the U.S. Army. The Austin, Texas-based defense technology company said Tuesday the Army will utilize the Archer troposcatter system to enhance battlefield communications. It will be used for training and evaluation to strengthen network resilience with an extra layer of secure communication.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

Boeing Defense, Space & Security has named Aaron Weis, a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, as chief information officer. In a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, Weis announced departing Google Public Sector, where he was a managing director for technology, to take on the CIO role at Boeing.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 11, 2025

Raft and Appian have partnered to develop a contested logistics cloud platform at the tactical edge in the Indo-Pacific Command, unifying logistics and warfighting data to enhance readiness and accelerate decision-making for U.S. forces.

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FedInsider

JUNE 11, 2025

Thursday, July 10, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 60 Minutes | 1 CPE Today’s workforce isn’t tethered to laptops – it’s powered by mobile. It’s often a primary way many employees connect to email and other mission-critical resources but not treated that way from a security standpoint. Traditional Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions weren’t built to detect advanced threats or align with Zero Trust principles.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek, received the 2025 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Plexico’s sixth consecutive Wash100 Award recognizes his contributions to advancing the government contracting industry by sharing insights and delivering market research and information through Deltek’s GovWin.

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FedInsider

JUNE 11, 2025

Friday, June 27, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 60 Minutes | 1 CPE Phishing today isn’t just email. Adversaries are now exploiting SMS, Signal, LinkedIn, QR codes, and more to directly target your people—on the devices they rely on most. These mobile-specific tactics—like smishing and quishing—are designed to exploit human trust, not technical flaws. And they’re working.

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FedScoop

JUNE 11, 2025

The CIA has a storied legacy conducting U.S. intelligence gathering operations with human agents. But as the agency onboards more innovative digital technologies to enhance that mission, AI agents now have the potential to transform some CIA enterprise operations, its AI chief said Tuesday. Asked Tuesday at the AWS Public Sector Summit what AI trend or capability she’s most excited about, Lakshmi Raman pointed to agentic AI — the emerging field of AI that goes a step beyond generative AI t

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 11, 2025

Mattermost has launched the Intelligent Mission Environment, or IME, a sovereign, artificial intelligence-enabled platform designed to modernize mission-critical operations for defense, intelligence and critical infrastructure teams. Built to replace outdated systems, IME improves mission speed, collaboration and decision-making in high-risk environments, the company said Tuesday.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

Lockheed Martin is shielded from a former employee's defamation and other claims that were based on the defense contractor's mandatory reporting of suspected misconduct, a Massachusetts intermediate appellate court ruled Wednesday.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 11, 2025

Nuclear fusion energy company Fuse has appointed four new advisers with expertise in national security and defense. Composed of former senior officials from the U.S. Navy, U.S.

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