Art of Procurement
APRIL 4, 2024
China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort. The post Even with +1, China is still #1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Open Contracting Partnership
APRIL 1, 2024
When the pandemic began, the Philippines government suspended all public transport. With only 6% of Filipinos owning private cars, the decision affected many – including doctors and nurses on the frontline fighting the virus. “There were healthcare workers who needed to walk for around three to four hours to get where they needed to go,” says Kenneth Isaiah Ibasco Abante, President of WeSolve Foundation , a youth-led coalition accelerator for systemic change in the Philippines.
FedTech Magazine
APRIL 4, 2024
To prepare for the total solar eclipse in 2017, NASA focused on technology that would keep its livestreams running for those who couldn’t see it in person. This time, the agency has looked at how to spend less money for even better service. About 12 million people watched the eclipse on NASA sites on Aug. 21, 2017, the first to cover much of the U.S. in more than a century.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 1, 2024
In today’s digital world, staying at the forefront of cybersecurity practices is critical for national security. Continuous increases in both the number and variety of cyberattacks now characterize this domain, and the U.S. government has taken many steps to keep pace with this constantly transforming environment.
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FedInsider
APRIL 4, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Critical infrastructure services in North America face accelerating threats from both nation-states and other sophisticated threat actors. Governments globally are grappling with how to best balance incentives, support, and direct oversight. Meanwhile, critical infrastructure owners and operators face significant challenges with technology, staff resources, and expertise to better manage cyber resilience.
FedScoop
APRIL 2, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security would be charged with figuring out how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies could be used to secure the border under a bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday in the House. The Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act from Reps. Lou Correa, D-Calif., and Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, calls on DHS to deliver a plan to Congress for how the agency can leverage AI, machine learning and nanotechnology to “enhance, or address capability gaps in, border
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GovCon Wire
APRIL 5, 2024
Six companies have won spots on a potential $2 billion follow-on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific with incidental facility construction services.
FedTech Magazine
APRIL 1, 2024
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot is an important but limited step in getting agencies to start planning to integrate AI technology into their work, according to an NVIDIA spokesperson. Led by the U.S. National Science Foundation in partnership with 10 other agencies and 25 companies, the two-year pilot devotes a shared research infrastructure for responsible AI discovery and innovation.
FedScoop
APRIL 2, 2024
The Department of State is rolling out a chatbot for internal use, in a move that the agency’s top IT official said is largely in response to employee requests for help in streamlining processes such as translating. Kelly Fletcher, State’s chief information officer, said during a speech Tuesday at Palo Alto Networks’s Public Sector Ignite event that the creation of a generative AI chatbot is something that the agency’s workforce is asking for as publicly available tools like ChatGPT become more
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 1, 2024
Kevin Kelly , chairman and CEO of defense services provider Arcfield , has been deemed as one of the 100 most outstanding leaders in the government contracting sector in 2024 by Executive Mosaic. As one of the 42 first-time inductees into the Wash100 league, he is credited for his role in the company's recent milestones including the acquisition of Strategic Technology Consulting and Orion Space Solutions.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 4, 2024
The rise of the digital realm has made information technology a key factor in the success of any organization. U.S. government agencies have embraced the digital space, and public sector officials are now exploring numerous technologies that could revolutionize federal IT.
FedInsider
APRIL 4, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 CPE Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has arrived with the force of a tsunami across the federal government. In October, Executive Order 14110 on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of AI established the broad outlines for how agencies should evaluate and implement their AI use cases.
FedScoop
APRIL 5, 2024
An artificial intelligence service deployed within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being put to the test for things like modernizing its websites and capturing information on school closures, the agency’s top data official said. The tool — Microsoft Azure Open AI that’s been configured for CDC use within its cloud infrastructure — has both a chatbot component for employees to use and the ability for more technical staff to develop applications that connect to the service via an
Federal News Network
APRIL 2, 2024
Women-owned small businesses won more federal contracting dollars in fiscal 2023 than ever before. New data from FedMine, a government business intelligence platform, shows women-owned small firms won more than $25.5 billion in federal contracts last year, up from $22.6 billion in 2022. FedMine said that 13% year-over-year increase represents about 3.3% of all federal contract dollars going to women-owned small businesses.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 2, 2024
John Barnett, a former quality inspector manager for Boeing, was found dead on March 9 in South Carolina. He reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. For whistleblower advocates, Barnett’s death raises concerns about the retaliatory treatment and the protracted legal proceedings that whistleblowers face. David Colapinto , founding partner of the whistleblower firm Kohn, Kohn, & Colapinto , states, “The general public does not understand the lengths whistleblowers go to protect t
GovCon Wire
APRIL 4, 2024
TCOM has acquired Equinox Innovative Systems, a Columbia, Maryland-based manufacturer of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, in a transaction aimed at expanding the former’s technology offerings to include tethered and untethered drone systems.
WashngtonExec
MARCH 31, 2024
Congratulations to all the Chief Officer Awards finalists and nominees across industry and government! Join us May 10, 11:30 a.m. at The Hilton in McLean, Virginia, for an in-person event and luncheon. In the coming weeks, we will be posting Q&As with some of the finalists, so keep your eye out for that. Below are [.
FedInsider
APRIL 4, 2024
With the release of Chat GPT, there was an explosion of people lauding the benefit of vacuuming up previous knowledge and presenting it in many formats at the touch of a button. As technology evolved, headlines everywhere sang the praises of possibilities with Generative AI, but serious glitches such as producing narratives with factual inaccuracies make for troubling results.
Key Solutions
APRIL 3, 2024
A guide to understanding the key roles and responsibilities within a proposal team and leveraging effective communication to ensure a successful proposal.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 4, 2024
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth has been named to Executive Mosaic’s prestigious 2024 Wash100 list in recognition of his GEOINT leadership and his work spearheading space and intelligence innovation efforts. This marks VADM Whitworth’s third consecutive Wash100 Award. Vote for Frank Whitworth to win the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com!
FedScoop
APRIL 3, 2024
The most recent astronaut applicants to NASA were treated to a more modernized approach than their predecessors. Through a partnership with the Office of Personnel Management, the latest hiring cycle featured an automated application and online pre-screen assessment. While the astronaut process itself did not change, NASA became aware of OPM’s systems that support automation alongside continuous evaluations and improvements through the partnership between agencies, J.
FedInsider
APRIL 4, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2023 | 12:00PM – 5:00PM EDT | 3 CPE | Reston, VA OIGs Look to AI, Other Tech to Improve Operations The Office of Inspector General (OIG) serves as the internal watchdog for all federal departments and agencies. The 74 inspectors general are broadly responsible for preventing and detecting fraud, waste, abuse, misconduct, and mismanagement in their domains, and promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in operations and programs.
Government Contracts
APRIL 4, 2024
Two years after the largest fire in New Mexico's history — a disaster caused by the U.S. government's mismanagement of prescribed burns — the Federal Emergency Management Agency must remedy its grossly inadequate relief efforts and flawed legal interpretations that have left victims of the fire still waiting for justice, says former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 1, 2024
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology division will help U.S. Central Command modernize its enterprise IT infrastructure under a potential six-year, $922 million contract.
WashngtonExec
APRIL 3, 2024
IntelliBridge has won a 5-year, $23 million contract with the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division to provide 24/7 operational response and intelligence support, performing quick response due diligence and imminent threat-to-life assessments originating from terrorist threats. “As one of the largest mission-centric contractors supporting the FBI’s national security and intelligence programs, IntelliBridge is proud to continue this [.
FedInsider
APRIL 4, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Federal agencies have been ordered to move toward zero trust architectures with alacrity, through Executive Order 14028 on improving cybersecurity and the Office of Management and Budget’s two memoranda, M-22-09 on meeting zero trust cybersecurity principles, and M-21-31 on improving investigative and remediation capabilities following cyber breaches.
Government Contracts
APRIL 1, 2024
The Army Corps of Engineers is trying to "muddy the water" to fend off a challenge to a nationwide permit opening ocean waters to aquaculture operations, failing to justify why the permit shouldn't be scrapped, the Quinault Indian Nation and nonprofit allies have told a Washington federal judge.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 1, 2024
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense has been battling digital threats for decades, striving to fortify the defense industrial base. To achieve this, numerous cybersecurity requirements have been introduced for organizations that process or store controlled unclassified information, or CUI.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 4, 2024
On March 22, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Office posted a Notice of Covered Action (NCA) for a $7 million enforcement action taken against the U.S. Bank, N.A., a swap dealer, and against Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an introducing broker. The NCA signals that the CFTC is now accepting whistleblower award claims for the case.
Federal News Network
APRIL 5, 2024
The long-awaited and much-anticipated update to the basic management standards for the federal grants community is out. The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year. Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget.
Government Contracts
APRIL 1, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge has released Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and most other defendants from a proposed class suit by a group of migrants who claim they were duped into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 2, 2024
The Honorable Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, sustainment and logistics, has been confirmed to speak at the Potomac Officers Club’s 9th Annual Army Summit on June 13. Each year, the Annual Army Summit brings together top Army officials and industry experts to explore the near- and long-term challenges and priorities shaping Army’s future.
Whistleblower Network News
APRIL 5, 2024
On March 18, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed a complaint in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Avenger Products LLC and its holding company, Kittrich Corp., a pesticide and agricultural manufacturing company based in Lawrenceville. The DOL alleges that the company unlawfully retaliated against an employee who filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) claiming chemical exposures that threatened the workplace and its employees
FedInsider
APRIL 2, 2024
State and local governments are preparing for the election year by leveraging federal and private sector partners along with security tools to uphold election integrity. Security is top of mind for election officials this year, especially considering past events and the rise of cyber threats. Since individual states are responsible for conducting elections, the National Association of Counties held workshops and panels at its annual legislative conference on the threats facing election workers a
Government Contracts
APRIL 1, 2024
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 4, 2024
Christopher George is Intel Federal LLC’s President and General Manager. Working closely alongside Intel’s product, research, and manufacturing divisions, he guides the organization toward innovation and progress. With leaders like Chris George paving the way for innovation, the government contracting industry has experienced advancements in recent years.
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