Proposed FAR changes remove contractor diversity requirements, keep disability rules
The new language follows one of President Trump’s first executive orders to eliminate diversity requirements in federal contracts. The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul’s newest set of changes includes the removal of equal employment opportunity requirements for contractors that have been in place since 1965. Part 22.8 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation is now deleted. This should not […]
Axiom Space hires NASA, BWXT vet as CEO
Axiom Space is one of three recipients of Space Act Agreements to vie for the International Space Station replacement. Axiom Space, a commercial space station developer whose design is in the running to replace the International Space Station, has hired a chief executive almost six months after appointing the prior CEO. Dr. Jonathan Cirtain joined Axiom […]
Rampart brings in Javaid as chief executive
Rampart holds 55 registered patents and designs its waveform technologies to secure content and metadata in networks. Rampart Communications, a maker of radios and other wireless communications products for national security usage, has hired a new chief executive in 25-year technology veteran Omar Javaid. Javaid officially started on Tuesday and will lead the next phase of […]
Judiciary Democrats launch watchdog website amid withheld funding from inspector general group
The lawmakers are maintaining hotline information for over 20 OIGs, as watchdogs scramble to set up temporary websites after the White House withheld funding from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have launched a centralized online repository of resources for whistleblowers as the websites of many government […]
FCC initiates process to ban Hong Kong Telecom in US
The agency has previously barred China-linked communications providers from operating on American soil. The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday initiated a procedural step to ban Hong Kong Telecom from U.S. networks. The agency’s Office of International Affairs, Wireline Competition Bureau and Enforcement Bureau sent an order to HKT and subsidiaries directing them “to explain why the […]