Quick Hits

Culture can mean engagement and branding but starts as the “Right Thing to Do.”

Want to better understand how happy employees can lead to long-term success, why it is okay to let employees know the sky is the limit, or how CEOs play a key role in both corporate culture and social media branding? Or simply want advice to help you cement your own corporate culture? Check out this recent interview with RIVA Solutions’ CEO Naveen Krishnamurthy and its Executive Vice President of Growth, Farrell O’Neill Proffitt. As to why the Alpacas…we still have no idea. Many thanks to RIVA Solutions and OrangeSlicesAI for being such an awesome model and sharing your insight with the GovBrewCrew!
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Executive Order adds supply chains, cybersecurity, data to CFIUS risk factors

POTUS signed an executive order formalizing a list of risks to be considered when weighing approval of foreign investments in the U.S. Under the order, the cross-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States must consider impacts on critical supply chains, cybersecurity threats, risks to sensitive data and other evolving national security concerns when reviewing covered transactions.
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Polaris RFPs Round 2.

GSA released RFPs for the HUBZone and SDVOSB pools of the Polaris. GSA said Friday it will accept proposals through Nov. 4 for SDVOSB and HUBZone pools of Polaris. Our only question is how much back and forth will there be with industry and Government on this one?
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ICYMI Snippets:

• It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month! Check out the federal government’s website in paying tribute to generations who have enriched our nation and society. We’ll be trying to hit a few stories about this throughout the next few weeks, too!
• Following up on a GAO report on this issue, Congress is considered better codifying federal CIO roles and responsibilities.
• DOJ officials have released a digital asset framework for the crypto marketplace.
• Happy birthday Air Force! They are celebrating 75 years (Sept. 18) this year.

Top Defense & Aerospace

ICYMI Snippets

• DLA recently completes the migration of its ERP system to the cloud.
• Army wants soldiers to stop wasting time on the online classes it assigned to them. “People actually do this stuff?” said McConville.
• Red River Army depot officials and vendors sentenced in bid-rigging scheme.
• Boeing shows surveillance drone in support of Navy missions.

Defense Contract Awards

• Leidos won $83M IDIQ Navy.
• Raytheon won $583M situational awareness technology contract.
• SAIC won a $14M Navy IDIQ. SAIC also won an $11M Army contract for modeling and simulation.
• North Point Defense won a $16M AF contract for AI and ML techniques.

Follow the Defense Job Openings

• The Coast Guard is seeking a Supervisory Privacy Government Information Specialist.
• The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is seeking a Senior Advisor for Cyber Counterintelligence.

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Top Intel Community

NSA help wanted: 2,000 cyber and IT qualified personnel needed. 

With more data than ever to analyze, NSA officials are urgently trying to hire 2,000 personnel with cyber security and IT qualifications by the end of 2022, but the security clearance requirements, among other realities, are hampering the effort. Crimping new pirate crew is being frowned upon by other agencies.
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DoD & IC considering indemnifying commercial space providers.

At the Intelligence & National Security Summit Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said that the department, including the Pentagon’s Intelligence Community partners, is looking at the possibility of indemnifying commercial space firms that become targets in conflict due to their support for US national security goals. “It does require us to think about how we contract effectively, to include issues like indemnification,” she told the Intelligence and National Security Summit co-sponsored by the Intelligence National Security Alliance (INSA) and the AFCEA. “That is absolutely on the table.”
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ICMY Snippets

• During its pending acquisition of Everwatch, Booz Allen Hamilton officials have attempted to address DOJ anti-trust concerns, which seem very pressing, given potential national security considerations.

IC Contract Awards

• Amentum awarded $500M contract for Intelligence and Analysis to Investigate Financial Crimes at Treasury.
• REI Systems/ADG Tech Consulting (a JV) was awarded a $110M contract to provide DevSecOps to Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Follow the Job Openings

• Oracle’s National Security Group is looking for a Consulting practice director.
• The USAF is seeking a Director for its Acquisition and Cybersecurity Directorate.
• NRO is looking for a Chief Architect for its Ground Enterprise Directorate.

Top Civilian

Inflation Reduction Act language could hamper IRS hiring efforts.

Did you actually think that the IRS was going to quickly ramp up its hiring efforts, on the heels of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act into law, to hire and onboard tens of thousands of agents, to enable IRS to meet congressional revenue goals? Well, think again! Due to the stripping of language from the legislation by the Senate, those sons of biscuit eaters, IRS officials will not have the same flexibility to make new hires that they were initially to be given in the legislation.
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 USCIS application support center contract pre-proposal conference.

The pre-proposal conference will be on September 29 from 9 am to 12 pm. You need to register to attend. This contract involves the following tasks: Biometric and Biographic Capture, Identity Verification, Mobile Route Support, Scheduling, Data Entry, resubmissions of prints, electronic support of ink cards, facility observation support and Program Management Support, including Facilities Leasing and Maintenance. Pirate carousing is probably not on the docket.
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ICMY Snippets

• Some members of Congress and veterans support adding a fourth administration within the VA.
• FDA at risk of losing 3500 personnel (pending Senate ok).
• FAA again extends deadline for $2.4B IT services contract. New due date.
• VA plans to award sole-source training contract to support Oracle Cerner EHR migration. Who are the lucky sole-source winners?
• NASA: 2.5B pixel image is the most detailed view ever of Mars landscape.

Civilian Contracts Awards

• Amentum has nabbed a five-year $500M purchased agreement to work with the Treasury Department, providing intelligence and analysis in the investigation of financial crimes.
• VA awards Mailing System Hardware, Software and Support task to MicroTech.
• Anika Systems won a $20M contract supporting the USCIS CDO.

Follow the Civilian Leaders

• Steve Demetriou is stepping down as CEO of Jacobs, and a new successor has been named.
• There’s a new CEO at Serco, taking over for a retiring Rupert Soames.
• BizFlow Corp has named a new Vice President of Growth and Solution Architecture.
• ICF has hired a new Vice President of Growth (HHS/DOD).

Follow the Civilian Job Openings

• The Department of the Interior is seeking a new Chief Information Security Officer.
• TSA is seeking a Deputy Assistant Administrator/Deputy Chief Information Officer.

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GovCon M&A Corner

Antenna Research Associates has acquired SI2 Technologies.

Antenna Research Associates has acquired military communications and signal management systems builder SI2 Technologies to create a technology innovation center that will serve defense customers. North Billerica, Massachusetts-based S12 will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARA and the two entities will collaborate across various business operations within the U.S. and Europe.
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Intuitive Machines going public through a SPAC deal.

Intuitive Machines, LLC, a space exploration, infrastructure, and services company founded in 2013, and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: IPAX, IPAXU, IPAXW) (“Inflection Point”), a SPAC, announced that they have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will result in Intuitive Machines becoming publicly listed. Upon the closing of the transaction, the combined company will be named Intuitive Machines Inc., and its securities will be listed on Nasdaq.
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