Jerry Petersen

Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement-qualified health information networks may now adopt and implement version 2.0 of the Common Agreement, which was released on April 22 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and The Sequoia Project, the TEFCA-recognized coordinating entity.

Nine performers have been awarded $26.6 million in total by the Manufacturing Technology office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the Joint Acceleration of Hypersonic Vehicle Aerostructure Alternatives program, which seeks to develop materials and processing technologies for hypersonic systems.

The Space Systems Command has issued a request for information as part of a strategy to establish an integrated satellite network with space-based environmental monitoring capabilities that would provide terrestrial and space weather data to meet Department of Defense forecasting needs.

The Economic Development Administration is now offering more details about the applications submitted in February by the 31 Tech Hub Designees for phase 2 of the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs, or Tech Hubs, program.

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The Department of Energy’s Office of Enterprise Assessments, or EA, conducted from fiscal year 2019 through 2023 an evaluation of the way nine DOE contractors managed safety issues at their respective facilities and has observed three “significant and extensive weaknesses” across the organizations.

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Holders of two or more General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contracts that share a unique entity identifier — or UEI — must submit by May 24 a plan to consolidate those awards as part of phase 3 of the MAS Consolidation effort.

MITRE has incorporated the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification into Cyber Resiliency Engineering Framework Navigator, a tool that works to help engineers in their decision-making process when designing cyber-resilient capabilities.

The Small Business Administration Office of Investment and Innovation seeks to determine the availability of contractors that can provide a variety of services in support of the Regional Innovation Clusters, or RICs, initiative, which seeks to establish networks of organizations that work to support small businesses, enabling them to grow and become competitive.