aptac

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This webinar was broadcast on September 25, 2024 and led by Paul Zielinski with Federal Laboratory Consortium. Your local APEX Accelerator and the National APEX Accelerator Alliance (NAPEX) are excited to announce the upcoming Federal Laboratory Consortium webinar on the Impacts and Benefits of Working with Federal Laboratories. The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC), a nationwide network of more than 300 federal laboratories, provides strategies and opportunities for accelerating the developme

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Agencies can struggle to stick to recommended three- to five-year IT refresh cycles due to their large install bases, tight budgets and legacy technologies that are not interoperable with newer ones. The Department of Defense wants to standardize refresh cycles across its branches because holding on to aging IT infrastructure has led to widespread frustration over poor user experience.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service served a search warrant at Carahsoft Technology Corp.’s headquarters in Reston, Virginia this morning. Multiple sources confirmed law enforcement agencies closed down the building and removed computers and boxes of documents. One source said they tried to enter the building around 10 a.m. today, but they were turned away by FBI agents at the front door.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

I pre-interview about a dozen people each month for all of the podcasts produced by Art of Procurement. One thing. The post Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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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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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Samherji, Iceland’s largest fishing company, is suing Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson, an Icelandic art student known as Odee. The lawsuit concerns a spoof of the company’s website created by the artist. The fake webpage featured the heading We’re Sorry , with a made-up apology. This fake apology was directly related to a scandal involving Samherji and Namibian fishing quotas.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Hyperconverged infrastructure offers agencies a chance to bolster their edge computing capabilities by enhancing security, reducing costs and improving management — even in the most unconventional locations. The evolving demands of data management and processing at the edge have more agencies looking to HCI, particularly as technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning become more prevalent.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Earlier this Summer, the Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, announced more than $18.2 million in Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program awards to assist tribal nations with managing and reducing systemic cyber risk and threats.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dave Levy, left, speaks during his fireside chat at the Concordia Summit, “The AI Revolution: Harnessing Digital Innovation in the Public Sector.” While global leaders convened for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, I met with business leaders, diplomats, and civic organizations to discuss AWS’s innovative approach to tackling global challenges.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The federal CAIO Council is prioritizing artificial intelligence-capable infrastructure, with an emphasis on computing power and resilience, as agencies increasingly look to leverage the technology. Agencies will likely need some major technology enhancements to operationalize their AI efforts, and given the government’s intense interest in this area, it’s worth taking a deeper look into what those entail.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Federal agencies across the government have posted their plans to comply with an Office of Management and Budget memo on artificial intelligence governance, providing a window into what risk management and reporting practices will look like in the executive branch. The compliance plans, which were due 180 days following the finalization of OMB’s M-24-10 memo , outline steps each covered agency plans to take when it comes to updating their internal policies, collecting information for their AI us

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

U.S. government representatives have been largely bullish, at least publicly, about the benefits of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, while also acknowledging its risks and misuses.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

New systems installations need to go smoothly, says Steve Witt , director of public sector at Nintex , a global provider of process and workflow automation software with clients that include public sector entities, including the U.S. Department of Defense, city of Denver, the federal Veterans Administration and the U.S. Air Force. Go to the following link for information on Nintex’s work with governments.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Hyperconverged infrastructure offers agencies a chance to bolster their edge computing capabilities by enhancing security, reducing costs and improving management — even in the most unconventional locations. The evolving demands of data management and processing at the edge have more agencies looking to HCI, particularly as technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning become more prevalent.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A new open-source artificial intelligence model developed by IBM, NASA, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory could address weather and climate prediction challenges for scientists, developers and businesses. The new model, Prithvi-WxC, was announced Monday and made available for download on Hugging Face. According to an IBM release, it was trained on 40 years worth of NASA’s earth observation data and can be scaled from local to global uses, which “makes it suited f

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a $99.8 million contract to extend access to the Maven Smart System to all military branches, including the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Space Force and Marine Corps.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a proposed rule in August of 2024, SBA has unveiled a brand new regulation related specifically to recertification of size and status. A frequent question of federal contractors is whether they can continue to be small, or maintain a specific socio-economic status (i.e., WOSB, SDVOSB etc.) after a change in ownership or business structure. The SBA’s size and status recertification standards are currently found in multiple places: the size determination timing regulations, each socio-eco

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Federal Monthly Insights - Contract Management Modernization - 9/24/2024 [link] Download audio The State Department is embarking on a transformation in how it performs acquisition. It’s moving to a category management approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend. In addition, it’s launching a lifecycle management approach to help streamline and standardize procurement workflows.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Department of Veterans Affairs has neglected to put in the proper controls for its Oracle Cerner electronic health record system to adequately prevent and respond to major incidents, according to a new audit from the agency’s Office of Inspector General. In another report scrutinizing the VA’s management of IT systems, VA OIG found a weakness in controls including configuration management, assessment, authorization and monitoring, which collectively accounted for 23 incidents and a total of

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Steve Parker, chief operating officer of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, will serve as interim CEO of BDS while the company searches for a permanent replacement, Breaking Defense reported Friday. His appointment follows the departure of Ted Colbert as chief executive of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense business unit.

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WashngtonExec

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Nathaniel Fick, State Department’s ambassador-at-large for cyberspace and digital policy, and Brad Medairy, executive vice president and cyber security leader at Booz Allen Hamilton, participated in a panel at the Sept. 3 Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. They discussed global cybersecurity trends and the evolving challenges in the field.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

On September 23, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced four whistleblower award orders totaling $4.5 million. The four award orders are the most issued by the CFTC Whistleblower Program in a single day. The orders awarded seven individual whistleblowers, who included victims of fraud, employees and market participants. Through the CFTC Whistleblower Program , qualified whistleblowers, individuals who voluntarily provide original information which leads to a successful en

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Department of Veterans Affairs is making tele-emergency care available nationwide following a pilot that the agency credited with helping over 60,000 callers. In a Thursday announcement , the VA announced that tele-EC, which aims to increase “timely access to virtual emergency care options” for veterans enrolled in VA health care, will be available across the nation to assist those who are unsure if what they’re experiencing is a minor emergency or not.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Back in 2023, we wrote about Congress’s late-2022 mandate to update and clarify various rules surrounding organizational conflicts of interest (or OCIs). At that time, Congress, in a short piece of legislation, asked that OCI rules be updated to address a number of areas. In this post, I’ll provide some predictions about how the OCI rules will be updated, as we wait for the new proposed rule to come out.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

CACI International has secured a five-year task order worth up to $314 million from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and technology to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Under the NUWC Engineering and Modernization Operations program, CACI will train sailors to provide integration support, logistics, project management, cyber capabilities and analysis, the company said Tuesday.

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USFCR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Tropical Storm Helene continues to intensify, with forecasts predicting it could strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane before making landfall. Areas along the Florida Panhandle and Gulf Coast are at risk, with storm surge warnings issued for Tampa Bay and evacuation orders in effect for several counties. Helene could bring up to 8 feet of storm surge and drop 4 to 8 inches of rain, causing flash flooding in vulnerable areas.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The General Services Administration has tapped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ chief information officer and chief data officer to serve as its new deputy CIO, the agency confirmed Thursday. Dovarius Peoples will join GSA on Oct. 6, an agency spokesperson told FedScoop, adding that he is an “experienced leader with an impressive track record, having implemented countless technology projects to improve the delivery of public services.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In an era where people across the world have more access to advanced technology than ever before (and are often very fluent in it), we have reached a “democratization of tech,” according to Nand Mulchandani, chief technology officer at the CIA.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Charles O’Brien currently serves as vice president of SOSi’s Civil Solutions arm.

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Redstone Government Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Title 2 Subtitle A Chapter II of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes Part 200 – Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (i.e., grants and cooperative agreements). 2 CFR 200.405, Allocable costs , falls under Subpart E–Cost Principles applicable to all organizations that are not commercial for-profit organizations. 2 CFR 200.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The IRS has fallen short in meeting a critical governmentwide modernization priority, a new watchdog report found, potentially undercutting the agency’s ability to “meet evolving business needs” and bolster “the taxpayer experience.” According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IRS has yet to complete a number of actions tied to the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

David Young, a strategy and business development leader, has joined Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) space business as vice president and deputy general manager for national security space. He disclosed his new position in a LinkedIn post published Monday.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Dave Musci was elevated to the role of chief delivery officer at stackArmor, where he previously served as vice president of cloud solutions. In a LinkedIn post announcing his move, Musci underscored the growth for both the company and his professional development in the last three years, and expressed appreciation for his team at stackArmor.

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USFCR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates , it can have a broad ripple effect across the entire economy, and federal spending is no exception. The recent 0.5% reduction in interest rates has brought renewed attention to how these changes affect the federal budget, government borrowing, and, ultimately, federal contractors.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Election season is here, and politics, rather than policy, is in the spotlight.
With lawmakers preoccupied with the upcoming elections in November, the prospect of major new legislation working its way through Capitol Hill is slim to none. However, innovation in potentially disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence won’t pause for the election.

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Redstone Government Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

DoD issued a proposed rule dated August 15, 2024 ( DFARS Case 2019-D041 ) to amend DFARS to incorporate contractual requirements related to the Cybersecurity Maturity Module Certification (CMMC) Program. This implements a section of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2020 to enhance cybersecurity for the US defense industrial base. DoD is estimating that the final rule will be issued during Quarter 1 2025.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As government agencies focus their energy and resources on all-domain operations, hyper-automation and information technology modernization have become essential components in achieving success. With this, officials believe the government should continue implementing a tech-focused approach to protect the U.S. homeland from evolving threats across the global geopolitical landscape.

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