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IBM settles DEI discrimination allegations for $17. 1 M in first Civil Rights Fraud Initiative settlement
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (437+ words) The Justice Department's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative has apparently reached its first settlement with a government contractor, with IBM agreeing to pay $17. 1 million to settle allegations that it failed to comply with anti-discrimination requirements involving federal contracts. Justice launched the…...
DCSA launches $495 M background check support solicitation
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (338+ words) The Defense Department agency responsible for conducting background investigations on people seeking security clearances has unveiled the final solicitation for a new contract supporting intake and other functions in those processes. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency conducts roughly 2 million…...
Judge sides with VA in T4 NG2 protest case
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (359+ words) Gettyimages. com / David Talukdar A federal judge has denied all remaining protests involving T4 NG2 "the Veterans Affairs Department's main contract for IT modernization and other tech solutions that now looks poised to open for business with this ruling. U. S. Court of Federal…...
Judge blocks DOD's ban on Anthropic, calls it First Amendment retaliation
2+ week, 4+ day ago (673+ words) A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing its declaration that Anthropic is a supply chain security risk. Judge Rita Lin in the U. S. District Court of Northern California is also blocking the government's'enforcement of…...
Treasury cancels all Booz Allen contracts
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (315+ words) The Treasury Department has moved to cancel all contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, two years after a former company employee pled guilty to leaking President Trump's'confidential tax information without authorization. Treasury currently has 31 contracts with Booz Allen that average roughly…...
Defense contractor gets 4-year prison sentence for bribing Navy official with sports tickets
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (318+ words) A former defense contractor has pled guilty to a series of bribery charges linked to a series of Navy contracts his company was awarded. Philip Flores, owner'and CEO of Intellipeak Solutions, will spend four years in prison and pay $80, 500 in…...
Supreme Court lets stand ruling that blocks subcontractors from protesting
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (303+ words) The Supreme Court's decision not to hear an appeal by Percipient. AI leaves in place the precedent of who an "interested party" in bid protests. Percipent. AI tried to force its way onto a team led by CACI International to…...
CBP seeks analytics tech to aid digital forensics
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) The Customs and Border Protection agency is looking to upgrade its digital forensics capabilities by incorporating more data analytics techniques into that aspect of its investigative work. A sources sought notice posted Friday describes CBP's interest in acquiring services and…...
Think AI can write your company's bid protest? Think again.
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (798+ words) Gettyimages. com / Aitor Diago Artificial intelligence is upending how we live in the world, and how businesses operate in the world, in ways we will not understand for some time. But the world of government contracting law is already providing…...
CMMC enforcement begins after eight years of warnings
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (788+ words) The defense industry has had nearly a decade of warnings, but today (Monday, Nov. 10) marks the day that companies need to start complying with the government's standards around how they protect controlled unclassified information. Of course, they should have been…...