Katherine (Katie) John

Government Contracting #govcon seems to be a labyrinth 😕to many outsiders and newer folks coming into the space. I once created an Access database🧮 at a previous employer many years ago to highlight the importance of good data management and common unique identifiers... As the company tended to have some byzantine processes and nomenclature that I was trying to flesh out and focus 🔍on measuring the things that matter. So I've seen quite a bit of diverse contracts from over $100M 💰annual jobs to ones under $100K. I believe the process is essentially the same to ensure a smooth transition from pre-award to 🥇post-award. It starts with being able to accurately code 🔣your contract into your system of record. Do your #proposal 📚and #pricing 💵documents match the contract award 📝documents? Check that before you 🖋sign! Had an experience recently where there was some ambiguity 😵with a contract modification document in what it was doing as it relates to the changes we proposed. Some contracts get complex when you get to a dozen mods or so with many CLINs, SLINs, and 🗜ARCNs... IYKYK We both had differing interpretations🗣 as we worked through the document. There was a 💪🏼challenge with all the moving parts and new CLINs added and old ones removed and it turns out that we both had the same initial confusion that it wasn't done correctly... However, when we dug ⛏deeper into the changes in Section B (contract values) and Section G (funding values) we determined that this customer was doing It's important to have a uniform 🥋methodology on how you read and review your contract documents before you sign it and book the funding and contract values in your accounting system. Set your books up right the first time, or you'll pay💸 for it over-and-over again each month. And get the right people 🤼 and departments involved! Make it a great week 👊🏼

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A significant step for defense contractors: DoD's proposed rule to implement its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program under Title 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations is now available for review and will be published in the Federal Register on August 15, 2024 with a 60 public comment period. This long awaited proposed rule is the complement to the proposed CMMC rule issued last December. #cmmc #cybersecurity #dod #govcon #federalprocurement #defensecontracting https://lnkd.in/eqK7GmTH

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To GS-2210 or GS-301....that is the question.... The Chief AI Officer (and its office location) are following the same course of the Chief Data Officer - what US Federal job series is it? Where does it live? In IT or outside? For all those not too familiar with the US Federal job series numbers, the primary debate that took place over the past several years was whether or not "data" should be an OPM job family of an IT track or the general administration series. 0301 = Miscellaneous Administration And Program - https://lnkd.in/euVawPSz 2210 = Information Technology Management - https://lnkd.in/eAbK59qU Barring some longer explanations of each, it is striking to see that we never really resolved this challenge with CDOs and almost immediately upon introducing a new executive into the mix for Federal agencies history is repeating itself. Myself and others have made the argument that data (and in this case AI), should be aligned more to business objectives and outcomes therefore something like a 0301 makes the most sense. It can be seen the other way though and after many years as a 2210 personally too, I get why some would also say that anything AI belongs in the 2210 wheelhouse. The CIA, the Navy, and some other agencies are calling their AI talent pools to the 0800 series for General Engineering while yet still others are going down the somewhat newly created 1560 Data Science Series. What do you think? To be IT or not IT....or maybe yet still neither?

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This could be huge! Everyone on the software/AI side of DefenseTech should respond to this RFI for the Army's planned Fast Track MATOC for PEO IEW&S. Don't know what these acronyms mean or how they work? Message me! #AI #Governmentcontracts #defensetech

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Another big win for Shift5. BAH knows the value that Shift5's "full take" data capture and analysis brings for both cyber security and conditions based maintenance.

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