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October 06, 2023
Army recompete report, Treasury cyber RFI, CMMC deadline, LOCH buys Avirtek, USAF plan to quickstart programs, MagQuest Ph4 winners, tips to sell your biz
QUICK HITS
'Broad' executive order brewing to address AI risks, standards: The forthcoming EO will address a swath of potential AI-related dangers.
CRS drops new report on Great Powers competition: China, Russia are profoundly changing the conversation about U.S. defense issues.
Feds can now access a unique cloud-native solution to data security: SentinelOne is offering Singularity DataLake to federal agencies.
How to sell your company and manage tax implications: Five strategies to successfully manage your sale and avoid pesky penalties.
TRIVIA
FREE RECOMPETE REPORT
60+ upcoming Army recompete opportunities
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DEFENSE & AEROSPACE
Leading house lawmaker lukewarm on USAF plan to 'quickstart' programs.
Rather than allowing services to start working on new programs before budgets are officially passed thanks to a recent Air Force proposal, a leading House lawmaker instead wants Congress to focus on approving spending bills on time. Read more
OP-ED: Does buying into Buy America harm the nation’s security?
One acquisition expert believes that Congress must drop final provisions to the NDAA to prevent a disproportionate impact on defense products and harm to national security. Standing in the way, however, are bicameral protectionists and isolationists who've decided to up the ante this year on the NDAA. Read more
Pentagon partners with SBA to offer guaranteed loans for defense investors.
To drive more private capital toward national security needs, the Pentagon is partnering with the SBA to offer federally guaranteed loans for investors looking to fund defense-related technologies. The Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology initiative was rolled out on Sept. 29 and has started taking applications. Read more
ICYMI Snippets
CYBERCOM gains authorities to hire & buy traditionally reserved for armed services.
Space Systems Command's GPS OCX needs another year for operational readiness.
Startups from four nations join 2023 Hyperspace Challenge.
Lockheed CEO pitches Pentagon on subscription software.
Defense Contract Awards
General Dynamics secures $967M USN contact mod for Virginia-class sub support.
CACI awarded $917M AFRL C5ISR contract.
Booz Allen secures $630M USSF contract for systems engineering and integration for space sensing systems.
ECS Federal books $190M Army contract for AI development.
Space Systems Command selects Lockheed Martin for ODETTI I contract.
Follow the Defense Leaders
Apogee Operations VP has taken on new COO role.
Former CIO at ST Engineering named CIO and digital officer at General Dynamics OTS.
24-year Dynetics veteran takes CTO post after a year in VP role.
Former Raytheon VP to lead V2X's Enterprise Integration & Transformation unit.
Longtime NASA aerospace engineer named new DOD assistant secretary.
Defense Job Openings
Air National Guard seeks Associate Director Air Surgeon.
The DIA is looking for a Supervisory Contract Specialist.
INTEL COMMUNITY
Spy agency leaders want new perceptions of IC workforce culture.
Leaders of the IC are trying to shape new perceptions about the workforce culture across different agencies. Their plan? Increase the focus on employee well-being and overcome a persistent stigma that prevents many security clearance holders from addressing mental health issues. Read more
ICYMI Snippets
RFI: DIA posts Publicly Available Information (PAI) Research Sources Sought Responses are due October 31.
USAF's “eye in the sky” flies its last intel mission after 3 decades of flight.
NGA announces the winners of its MagQuest Phase 4a.
NSA, CISA, and industry partners issue report on MFA, SSO challenges.
One more prime awardee for $137M DHS FEMA BPA.
Altaeros to deliver autonomous aerostat to CBP under $99M contract.
CIVILIAN
Ready to get CMMC-certified? Here's what you need to know.
DOD leaders have spent the past two years pushing to address private sector concerns about the complexity, cost, and necessity surrounding the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). This push has led to a deadline that DOD seems determined to hold onto even with a potential government shutdown still looming. Read more
‘Continuous vetting’ procedures to apply to more fed employees.
In an effort to expand new personnel vetting procedures well beyond national security positions, agencies will soon have to begin implementing “continuous vetting” requirements for a larger subset of the federal workforce. Read more
New bill to limit education requirements for federal cyber roles.
As OMB pushes to rework qualification standards for government jobs, the House has now passed a bipartisan bill meant to limit the requirement of minimum educational attainment for cybersecurity jobs in the federal government. Read more
ICYMI Snippets
Federal agencies are piloting AI for data center optimization.
RFI: Treasury Department cooking up departmentwide cybersecurity contract.
January RFP heads-up: USCG seeks contractors to support finance center data-driven processes.
Take part in virtual activities before NASA launches its Psyche spacecraft!
Are text messages the solution for better GSA customer service?
Civilian Contracts Awards
VA awards Acentra Health $52.3M Financial Services Center contract for claims adjudication, provider access, data analytics, and visualization.
Treasury awards Abaco Strategy a $4M TTB scanning indexing and support services contract.
Titan Alpha, a SDVOSB, wins another VA VHA IHT task order worth $4.1M.
Follow Civilian Leaders
Meet a new VP, federal markets at DOMA Technologies!
BTI360 names a new CGO.
Civilian Job Openings
NNSA needs a Senior Naval Reactors Representative, AUKUS.
Forest Service seeks Director, Sustainable Forest Management Research Staff.
M&A CORNER
Intel eyes Programmable Solutions Group as a standalone entity.
Intel announced new plans to separate its Programmable Solutions Group as a standalone unit to enable it to better compete and pursue growth in the field programmable gate array market. Intel said it intends to hold an IPO for the independent unit in the next two to three years to accelerate growth and keep a majority stake in PSG. Read more
AITC partners with FVLCRUM.
AITC LLC, a provider of state-of-the-art technology solutions to defense and federal agencies, announced a strategic partnership with FVLCRUM. Founded in 2006, AITC has expanded its services and footprint, providing IT infrastructure, Cyber Security, Live Training, Medical Simulation, Military Intelligence, and more to customers worldwide. Recent successes include securing contracts like ATMP, KSA, TEIS III, and IMCS IV. Read more
LOCH Technologies completes acquisition of Avirtek.
LOCH Technologies announced that it has acquired Avirtek. Avirtek’s autonomic cyber security (ACS) technology has received over $10 million in SBIR and STTR grants from government organizations such as the DOD, AFRL, Army, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Navy. Integrating Avirtek’s technology into the LOCH AirShield platform enables a comprehensive data detection and response capability (DDR) for predictive AI anomaly detection across all networks and data streams. Read more
SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿
New legislation means working with hackers, but is that really such a bad thing?
It may sound strange, but the DOD's chief digital and AI officer has said himself that he "needs hackers." Ethical hackers, also known as white-hat hackers, work with organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities before they are exploited by malicious actors, and they may soon be submitting vulnerability reports to the government. Read more
Is public trust in emergency alerting eroding?
The text message that we all received earlier this week was supposed to reach all compatible devices in the U.S.; it may also shed light on how government agencies can improve their emergency communications. Read more
What's the White House's tech team up to a decade after HealthCare.gov?
On October 1, 2013, the federal government launched HealthCare.gov. It crashed the same day it debuted. Outside government at the time, the current administrator of the U.S. Digital Service was brought in to save the site. Now, 10 years later, she leads the U.S. Digital Service, the tech team born out of that crisis and housed in the Executive Office of the President. Read more
TRIVIA ANSWER: D
Under the call sign KDKA, Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company transmitted the first scheduled broadcast on Nov. 2, 1920. KDKA’s Leo Rosenberg announced live returns of the Presidential election between Warren G. Harding and James Cox. (Source)
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