GSA launches pilot to streamline FedRAMP for AI products
The FedRAMP 20x initiative will automate some approvals for what the General Services Administration is calling “conversational AI” if certain security conditions are met. The General Services Administration is launching a pilot under its FedRAMP 20x initiatives with the goal of streamlining how artificial intelligence products based in the cloud can move through the certification process. The […]
Ask Sage protests a third OneGov AI agreement
The company is widening the scope of its argument that the products in question do not meet security requirements and the agreements violate other requirements. Ask Sage, the artificial intelligence company challenging the deep discounts the General Services Administration has signed with AI companies, is adding another one of those pacts to its objections. The company […]
DTRA awards $3.5B recompete of counter-WMD support contract
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency uses this program to acquire research, training and other professional services to help partner countries fight the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Five companies have won positions on a potential 10-year, $3.5 billion contract that supports the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s efforts to counter weapons of mass destruction. Awardees will […]
OPINION: The government’s ‘passive’ Intel stake heightens their commitment to each other and winning the chip wars
Both sides of the agreement are using ‘passive’ to describe the U.S. government, now Intel’s largest stockholder, and whose role in the computer chip ecosystem is very much active. “Passive investment” and “equity stake” is how Intel is describing the U.S. government’s direct investment in the company, less than a year after the company was awarded […]
WT 360: Is employee ownership right for your company?
David Blauzvern, a managing director and ESOP specialist at CSG Partners, lays out some answers to that question and what employee stock ownership plans can offer government contractors for their next phases. Government contractors struggle with exit and succession planning for multiple reasons, while the majority of transaction activity in the market these days has […]