FedTech Magazine
MAY 19, 2025
Federal IT and cybersecurity teams dealing with critical infrastructure must take steps to build supply chain resilience in light of increased risk. Nearly half of critical infrastructure organizations are unable to monitor their supply chains, and 36% of supply chain professionals believe cybercriminals have already penetrated their networks via unreported supplier breaches, according to a DNV Cyber report from March.
Federal News Network
MAY 13, 2025
Interview transcript: Terry Gerton: You’ve got an interesting story of two cases in the Federal Claims Court that derive from a rescinded FAR [Federal Acquisition Regulation] rule. Let’s start with the bottom line up front. Zach Prince: Sure. As the background for listeners, the system for award management, or SAM, is an important database that the government maintains for all prime contractors at least, and often a lot of subcontractors and recipients of grants, etc.
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GovLoop
MAY 23, 2025
We’ve never been more distracted. Incessant notifications, emails, calls, pings, deadlines, meetings, and competing priorities make staying focused nearly impossible. Yet, as a supervisor, its crucial to manage these distractions while meeting team objectives. The key is to master time management. Much like our learning styles, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing our workloads and calendars.
Public Procurement Intl
MAY 3, 2025
The Trump administration has published the first tranche of reforms to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), part of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul called for by Executive Order and direction from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The first tranche of completed rewrites go to FAR Part 1 (which describes how the FAR system is run), Part 34 (major systems acquisitions), and Part 52 (contract clauses).
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Government Contracts
MAY 7, 2025
New York transportation agencies have asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Department of Transportation from following through on its threat to withhold federal funding for Manhattan roadway projects if the Empire State doesn't halt congestion pricing.
FedScoop
MAY 19, 2025
Elon Musks DOGE isnt about efficiency its about destruction. We should not let this administration tear down our best defenses against those trying to attack us in cyberspace.
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Federal News Network
MAY 16, 2025
The U.S. militarys system for moving household goods is entering its busiest time of the year amid significant uncertainty: It’s unclear precisely how service members belongings will get from place to place given mounting indications the Defense Department’s multibillion-dollar contract for handling those shipments is nowhere near ready for full implementation.
Whistleblower Network News
MAY 8, 2025
While the whistleblower program administered by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is often heralded as the gold standard of whistleblower programs, advocates and members of Congress believe there is still need for reform. In a new article for the NYU Law Compliance & Enforcement blog , leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto outlines the needed reforms found in the bipartisan SEC Whistleblower Reform Act.
SmallGovCon
MAY 23, 2025
This past November, we observed a change in the rules regarding SAM registration requirements for procurements. Prior to this rule change , both GAO and the Court of Federal Claims (COFC) had found that the FAR requires offerors to maintain SAM registration throughout the evaluation period for a procurement. With the rule change, FAR 52.204-7 (the regulation at issue) now only requires that an offeror be registered at the time of offer submission and at the time of contract award.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 23, 2025
L3Harris Technologies has commenced construction of five new solid rocket motor facilities in Virginia. The defense technology company said Thursday that the upcoming facilities will boost production of critical components and support key national security initiatives.
FedScoop
MAY 27, 2025
The head of the Small Business Administration told lawmakers last week that the agency has saved billions of dollars thanks to terminated contracts in partnership with the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGEs publicly posted data, however, accounts for just a fraction of that cost-savings claim. Appearing before the Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Wednesday, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the agency canceled wasteful contracts for tota
FedTech Magazine
MAY 29, 2025
Agencies awash in oceans of data might seem like an ideal scenario for harnessing generative artificial intelligence tools to derive insights, but most large language models are trained on a broad mix of data found on the internet. This data isnt ideal for, say, an IRS chatbot meant to provide detailed answers to taxpayers questions about filing their returns.
Federal News Network
MAY 27, 2025
On May 21, 2025, the United States Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs held a legislative hearing which included consideration of S. 1591, the Acquisition Reform and Cost Assessment Act of 2025. We were honored to be asked by Chairman Jerry Moran to provide a statement for the record discussing the proposed legislation concerning Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) procurement.
WashngtonExec
MAY 28, 2025
Tom Lash, Vibrint Vibrint has acquired Ampsight, a provider of multi-cloud engineering, cybersecurity and artifical intelligence solutions for federal agencies, in a move to expand its customer base to geospatial organizations and boost its capabilities in AI/ML, cloud, cyber and trusted intelligence for national security missions. Ampsight brings unique strengths in cloud, cybersecurity, and AI especially in areas like explainable AI for geospatial and multimodal data that directly align with
SmallGovCon
MAY 16, 2025
SBA has indicated that it will be holding a tribal consultation meeting in June. Among the topics to be discussed will be the 8(a) Program and SBA Mentor-Protege Program and joint ventures. This request is interesting because it reveals a little bit about what the SBA is thinking with regards to the Mentor-Protg Program and joint venture issues. While it is especially relevant for entity-owned 8(a) Program firms, it is also revealing for other small businesses.
Government Contracts
MAY 5, 2025
A special master rightly determined that no reasonable jury could render a verdict for the U.S. Department of Justice in a massive False Claims Act case targeting Medicare Advantage plans operated by UnitedHealth, the health insurance company told a D.C. federal judge.
FedScoop
MAY 23, 2025
A congressional push to utilize AI and other emerging technologies at the border got a boost this week with the introduction of a bipartisan Senate bill aimed at strengthening the Department of Homeland Securitys tech resources. The Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act from Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., would make permanent an innovation team created at Customs and Border Protection in 2018 to quickly deploy new capabilities to fight human and drug traffic
FedTech Magazine
MAY 2, 2025
Federated learning makes it possible for agency employees to collaborate on advanced artificial intelligence models without compromising data control or operational security. The process serves as a practical alternative to centralizing data for AI training. Data is valuable for agencies, but its also mission-critical, sensitive and sometimes even classified.
Federal News Network
MAY 23, 2025
The Office of Personnel Management is taking a second bite at the apple to modernize its human resources platform. OPM released a new request for proposals on Thursday through the General Services Administration schedules program for a secure, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) human capital management (HCM) platform. The objective of this acquisition is to deploy an integrated, enterprise-wide core HR platformpowered by a secure, FedRAMP-authorized SaaS solutionthat consolidates key human
WashngtonExec
MAY 14, 2025
Renny Dipentima Renato Renny DiPentima joined SRA International in 1995, but his federal career started long before that. He began in the Social Services Administration and credits his government experience for shaping his path. I wouldn’t be president and CEO of a public company if I hadn’t built a career in government, DiPentima told WashingtonExec.
Open Contracting Partnership
MAY 19, 2025
This blog post is part of our series exploring the impact of AI on public procurement and cutting through the buzz. It has been written by Oxford Insights team Jasmine Kendall and Joram Brouwer who spoke to Vitaliy Trenkenshu, a managing partner at Datanomix.pro in Kazakhstan about the companys tool Red Flags Management. The problem: misconduct in procurement processes Procurement processes are prone to fraud and misconduct.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 27, 2025
The future of resilient government IT relies on blending skilled teams with better tools, including automation and artificial intelligence-powered platforms, said Ben Baldi, senior vice president of global public sector at Tricentis, in an opinion piece published on Route Fifty.
FedScoop
MAY 16, 2025
A top Senate Intelligence Democrat is warning the Office of Personnel Management against cancelling identity protection services that have been provided to current and former federal employees since their data was exposed in the massive 2015 OPM data breach. In a letter sent Friday to OPM acting Director Charles Ezell, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., expressed concerns about Department of Government Efficiency-instituted cuts to the personnel agency and plans that it may have to curtail identity theft
FedTech Magazine
MAY 22, 2025
Artificial intelligence-enabled learning platforms deliver the proper training in the proper format to federal employees looking to keep their skills current in an age of digital government. These platforms tailor content to the learner and help close vital skills gaps in government. Ironically, the rise of AI created some of the very skills gaps agencies are trying to fill, and the technology offers them a path forward.
Federal News Network
MAY 6, 2025
When it comes to IT shared services, Tony Arcadi likes to use a familiar analogy. The former Treasury Department chief information officer, who recently retired from federal service after 28 years, likes to compare centralized IT services to a value meal at a fast food restaurant where you get your sandwich, fries and drink for one price. I’ll have a number one or I’ll have a number two or I’ll have a number three.
GovCon Wire
MAY 27, 2025
Gen. Michael Guetlein, vice chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, was presented with the 2025 Wash100 Award during a recent visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Garrettson founded the Wash100 Award in 2014 to honor the most notable executives shaping the future of the government contracting industry.
AWS Public Sector
MAY 19, 2025
Pilot to determine if Amazon Nova foundation model can meet the unique demands of health-focused generative AI through fine-tuning and collaboration. HSR.health, a pioneer in geospatial health risk prediction, has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch a pilot project testing the performance, process, and pricing of fine-tuning the newly announced Amazon Nova foundation model for advanced health risk prediction.
Government Contracts
MAY 12, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
FedScoop
MAY 16, 2025
The nutrition labels for two artificial intelligence-based border security applications used by a Department of Homeland Security component are too sensitive to be fully released to the public, according to the agency, a stance that some government experts say could be overly broad. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by FedScoop, Customs and Border Protection recently released model cards for the border security apps that were heavily redacted.
FedTech Magazine
MAY 28, 2025
Historically, agencies have sometimes struggled to deliver software projects on time and under budget. The traditional waterfall development approach where all requirements were defined at the beginning of a project, everything was built at once and testing only happened at the end often produced applications that were buggy and bloated. It was all or nothing, says Brian Bothwell, director of the Science, Technology Assessment and Analytics (STAA) team at the Government Accountability Office.
Kluwer Arbitration
MAY 22, 2025
On March 26, 2025, the German Federal Government, the federal states ( Lnder ), and municipal organizations have entered into an agreement to establish arbitral proceedings for claims concerning Nazi-confiscated art. This article endeavors to show the cornerstones of the new arbitration procedure as well as to highlight some possible weak points of this reform.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2025
The U.S. Navy has awarded KBR Services an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract worth $55.6 million to provide base operations support at U.S. military facilities across the African nation of Djibouti. The contract includes options that, if exercised, would increase the maximum dollar value of the effort to $476.8 million, the Department of Defense said Monday.
GovLoop
MAY 8, 2025
Modernization is more than shiny laptops and high-end servers, the tools of advanced IT staff. Often, the most valuable reforms simply help agency employees in legal, procurement, human resources, facilities management, and other non-technical divisions leave their manual drudgery behind, so they can perform more mission-critical, satisfying work.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 27, 2025
QinetiQ US has secured a three-year, $41 million task order to provide software and technology integration support for a counter-unmanned aircraft system project. Contract Scope The defense and national security company said Tuesday the task order, under the U.S.
FedScoop
MAY 12, 2025
As the internet becomes overrun with AI slop and public trust in artificial intelligence plummets, a bipartisan group of senators want to enlist the Commerce Department in an education operation about the emerging technology. The Artificial Intelligence Public Awareness and Education Campaign Act would require the Commerce secretary to oversee an initiative to provide Americans with information about the benefits of AI in their daily lives, as well as the risks the technology presents.
GovSpend
MAY 8, 2025
The US Small Business Administration has celebrated small businesses for over 60 years, and National Small Business Week (May 4-10, 2025) is a time for us to commemorate the small businesses that contribute to Americas innovation and growth. In honor of this observance, Im reflecting on the contributions small businesses make in the federal contracting space – a market where the federal government remains the largest customer and spent more than $774B in federal contracts in Fiscal Year (F
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