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US AI Safety Institute taps Scale AI for model evaluation

FedScoop

The U.S. AI Safety Institute has selected Scale AI as the first third-party evaluator authorized to assess AI models on its behalf, opening a new channel for testing. That agreement will allow a broader range of model builders to access voluntary evaluation, according to a Scale AI release shared with FedScoop ahead of the Monday announcement. Participating companies will be able to test their models once and, if they choose, share those results with AI safety institutes around the world.

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Michael Croll Joins Riverbed to Lead US Federal Market

GovCon Wire

Riverbed Technology has named Michael Croll, an enterprise IT go-to-market executive, as senior vice president of the U.S. federal market. Croll announced his move to the San Francisco-based IT company in a LinkedIn post published Monday.

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Data ingress and egress through Trusted Research Environments and other secure enclaves

AWS Public Sector

If your institution controls sensitive data, you know that trust is your most important asset. At Amazon Web Services (AWS) , we have seen requests for collaboration using sensitive datasets grow in number and complexity as more value is unlocked through novel research techniques and cutting-edge research topics. Enabling this collaboration while making sure requests for data transfer are appropriately reviewed helps you maintain trust with your data owners and meet compliance obligations.

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GovCon FAQs: How Should a Joint Venture Allocate Profits?

SmallGovCon

It is a fairly standard business practice to divide profits according to ownership ratio. And a joint venture made up of only small business venturers only pursuing small business set-asides can follow this business practiceor any business practiceto divide up its profits (limited only by any applicable state, local, or Tribal law). But SBA does have specific and strict requirements for allocating the profits of any joint venture (1) between a small business protg and its SBA-approved large busi

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

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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Beyond the Headlines: What the New Budget Means for Federal Contractors

USFCR

The Federal Market is ChangingAre You Ready? Every year, government spending priorities shift , reshaping the federal contracting landscape. Whether budget cuts or new funding allocations , the results are the sameagencies must continue operations, often with fewer internal resources. To bridge the gap, they turn to private contractors. Businesses that position themselves correctly secure more contracts , while those who wait risk missing out.

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Maximus Logs 5.7% Increase in Q1 FY 2025 Revenue

GovCon Wire

Maximus reported $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2025 first-quarter revenue, up 5.7 percent from the prior-year period, and organic growth of 6.3 percent due to contributions from the U.S. federal services segment. In an earnings release published Thursday, the Tysons, Virginia-based government services contractor said its operating margin for the first quarter was 6.

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Atlanta's Inspector General Sued Over Financial Subpoenas

Government Contracts

A lobbyist and former campaign manager for a sitting Atlanta City Council member has sued the city's inspector general over allegations she violated state laws in issuing subpoenas for thelobbyist'sbank records to bolster a "frivolous" corruption probe.

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Federal Contracting Events You Can’t Afford to Miss in 2025

USFCR

Build Relationships, Win More Contracts Winning federal contracts requires more than meeting technical requirementsits about building relationships with government decision-makers who influence awards. Contracting officers, program managers, and prime contractors prefer to work with businesses they trust. The most effective way to develop these relationships is by attending Industry events.

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Dana Pittman Joins Peraton to Lead Talent Acquisition Efforts

GovCon Wire

Peraton has appointed Dana Pittman, a talent management and people operations leader, as senior vice president of talent acquisition. Pittman announced her move to the Reston, Virginia-based IT services contractor in a LinkedIn post.

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Guidehouse-AFERM Survey: Majority of Agency Professionals Cite Tech as Major Risk

ExecutiveBiz

A survey by Guidehouse and the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management has found that 80 percent of federal government professionals said technology will pose major risks to their agencies within the next three years.

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Judge: Dominican Republic Should Pay $44M Landfill Award

Government Contracts

A magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., recommended Friday that a $43.6 million arbitral award issued after the Dominican Republic terminated a landfill concession should be enforced, saying there was no evidence that the tribunal failed to investigate allegations of underlying fraud.

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EU and UK: Expected response to US Section 232 tariff announcement

Import and Trade Remedies

As reported in our earlier blog here , on Monday 10 February 2025, President Trump announced that 25% tariffs will be imposed on all steel and aluminum products imported into the United States (US), including from the EU and the UK which were previously subject to exclusions. These tariffs are due to come into effect on 12 March 2025. The key question now is how other jurisdictions such as the EU and the UK will retaliate.

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SpaceX to Launch NASA’s Pandora Mission

GovCon Wire

SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturing company based at Starbase in Texas, has been awarded a task order by NASA to provide the launch service for the Pandora mission. NASA said Monday the selection of SpaceX is part of the agencys Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare program.

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Defense Tech Startup Anduril to Raise Capital, Increase Valuation to $28B

ExecutiveBiz

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has signed a term sheet to raise up to $2.5 billion in capital, potentially raising its valuation to $28 billion, CNBC reported Friday. Unnamed sources revealed that the company could double its August 2024 valuation of $14 million. In June 2024, Anduril announced plans to raise $1.

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Colo. Nixes Suspension Of Medicaid Ride Company

Government Contracts

Colorado's Medicaid agency rescinded the six-month suspension of a transportation company that provides nonemergency rides to patients ahead of a hearing Monday on the company's bid to block the suspension.

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

Jay Blindauer Whether a procurement, grant, or cooperative agreement, [1] if the at-issue arrangement qualifies as a contract, the Government cannot simply cease performing contract payments. For a grant or cooperative agreement that is not a contract, the Government has more flexibility to halt payments. Even so, the Administrative Procedure Act may make the Governments non-payment subject to judicial review.

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RSC2 Secures $116M Army Contract for Aerial ISR Support Services

GovCon Wire

The U.S. Army has awarded mission support and C5ISR services provider RSC2 a $116 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical assistance support to the Project Director Sensors-Aerial Intelligence, or PD SAI.

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Palantir, Enabled Intelligence Seek to Improve AI Model Accuracy

ExecutiveBiz

Defense technology company Palantir is further enhancing its Foundry systems capability to automate decision making of federal customers through access to the data-labeling services of startup Enabled Intelligence under a partnership between the two companies, DefenseScoop reported Wednesday.

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Navigating The Ins And Outs Of Gov't Contracting SAM Site

Government Contracts

Recent developments at the U.S. Government Accountability Office highlight the importance of government contractors knowing how to navigate the online System for Award Management and maintaining an up-to-date registration, says Matthew Moriarty at Schoonover & Moriarty.

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Q&A: GAO CIO Beth Killoran Oversees Her Agency’s Cloud Migration

FedTech Magazine

Beth Killoran took office as CIO of the Government Accountability Office in May 2023 after serving as deputy CIO of the General Services Administration. Her career in the federal government spans nearly 30 years, starting in the Department of Treasury as an IT infrastructure specialist. She transitioned to the Department of Homeland Security with the formation of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and eventually became a senior executive in the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Dawn Golightly Named UTIAMD Programs VP at Lockheed

GovCon Wire

Dawn Golightly has been appointed vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s upper-tier integrated air and missile defense, or UTIAMD, programs. Golightly announced her appointment in a LinkedIn post on Monday. The move comes after the Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed a $2.

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SpiderOak Books AFRL Contract for CASR Control System

ExecutiveBiz

SpiderOak, a company specializing in zero-trust cybersecurity services for next-generation space and tactical edge operations, has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to boost the U.S. Space Forces ability to seamlessly integrate commercial satellite networks during emergencies.

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SpaceX Says It Has Been Harmed By Coastal Commission

Government Contracts

SpaceX has argued it should be allowed to move forward with its suit alleging the California Coastal Commission wrongly tried to block the company's rocket launches, saying it had been harmed by the commission's allegedly unconstitutional actions.

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House bill would ban DeepSeek on agency workers’ devices

FedScoop

Federal employees would be banned from using the Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek on their government-issued devices under new legislation from a bipartisan group of House lawmakers. The No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act , introduced by Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Darin LaHood, R-Ill., and 16 of their House colleagues Friday, comes after weeks of panic in Silicon Valley following the revelation that the Chinese startups AI models were comparable if not more advanced than

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Maximus Logs 5.7% Increase in Q1 FY 2023 Revenue

GovCon Wire

Maximus reported $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2025 first-quarter revenue, up 5.7 percent from the prior-year period, and organic growth of 6.3 percent due to contributions from the U.S. federal services segment. In an earnings release published Thursday, the Tysons, Virginia-based government services contractor said its operating margin for the first quarter was 6.

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L3Harris Concludes Preliminary Design Review of NOAA Sat System Imager

ExecutiveBiz

L3Harris Technologies has completed the preliminary design review of a high-resolution imager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Geostationary Extended Observations, or GeoXO, satellite system. When it becomes operational, GeoXO will deliver real-time imagery, enhancing NOAAs capability to monitor weather, ocean and environmental conditions in the Western Hemisphere, L3Harris said Thursday.

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Fed. Circ. Revives Cotter's Radiation Injury Suit Indemnity Bid

Government Contracts

The Federal Circuit on Monday revived Cotter Corp.'s bid for federal indemnity after settling claims related to alleged exposure to radioactive residue stemming from the Manhattan Project, saying a Court of Federal Claims judge read an indemnification statute too narrowly.

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Amentum Wins Spot on GSA OASIS+ Contract

WashngtonExec

Sean Mullen, Amentum Amentum has won a spot on the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus program for all eight domains. OASIS+ is a government-wide multiple-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity acquisition program for non-IT services. It is designed to help agencies access a full range of service requirements that integrate multiple service disciplines with commercial and non-commercial requirements.

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GovCon Index Posted 4 Daily Losses to Start February, Defense Stocks Tumble

GovCon Wire

Executive Mosaics GovCon Index started February on a losing note, ending lower Friday at $4,805.44 (-0.10%) following a fourth daily loss in five trading sessions. The week also saw breakouts of individual constituents and steep losses by defense stocks. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, lost -1.

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Lockheed Completes Early Design Review of Space Force Satcom Program

ExecutiveBiz

Lockheed Martin has completed the early design review for satellites supporting the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Commands Mobile User Objective System Service Life Extension program. The company said Friday it partnered with SEAKR Engineering for the proposed MUOS satellites to design a new MUOS payload processor.

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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

Government Contracts

Hogan Lovells succeeded in persuading the U.S. Government Accountability Office that an $896 million contract for transportation services supporting the Office of Refugee Resettlement's program for unaccompanied children wasn't properly awarded, landing it among the2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

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Nominate Your Favorite CFOs for WashingtonExec’s 2025 Chief Officer Awards!

WashngtonExec

Image: Zolak/iStock Did you hear? Moving forward, WashingtonExec is combining its two highly anticipated award ceremonies into one exclusive industry event! Were excited to introduce the better-than-ever Chief Officer Awards bringing together the best of the best from our previous Chief Officer Awards and Pinnacle Awards into one all-encompassing celebration.

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DOD’s New Communications Effort Is Going to Outer Space

GovCon Wire

5G connectivity has the potential to mitigate latency and enable large amounts of data to pass through communications systems, a bonus for the military.

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Gigaplex Remote Screening Technology Receives Patent

ExecutiveBiz

Gigaplex Remote Screening Technology, a project funded by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Small Business Innovation Research program, has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The joint venture, composed of Chertoff Group, SureScan and Xcelerate Solutions company VMD, said Saturday they were issued U.S.

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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

Government Contracts

Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywoods inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Know an Outstanding CEO? Nominate Them for WashingtonExec’s 2025 Chief Officer Awards!

WashngtonExec

Did you hear? Moving forward, WashingtonExec is combining its two highly anticipated award ceremonies into one exclusive industry event! Were excited to introduce the better-than-ever Chief Officer Awards bringing together the best of the best from our previous Chief Officer Awards and Pinnacle Awards into one all-encompassing celebration. Were gathering the most influential and popular categories for an opportunity to recognize the game-changers, impact-makers and innovators of GovCon once a y