Tag Archives: coronavirus aid relief and economic security act

John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the company is coordinating with other firms in the GovCon industry to extend a provision in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act that offers reimbursement to contracting personnel who are unable to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic but kept in a "ready state," Inside Defense reported Thursday.

Centric Consulting and Woolpert have partnered to offer management, data and organizational services meant to help local governments apply for coronavirus relief funds.

Kim Sutherland, vice president of fraud and identity strategy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, wrote in a GCN article published Monday that the federal government must implement an identity theft prevention strategy to combat scammers as they distribute stimulus funds to U.S. businesses and families as part of the $2T Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

Chris Bellios, chief operating officer of Hexagon US Federal, wrote in a commentary published Monday on Federal News Network that the U.S. government should implement several relief measures to mitigate the challenges facing federal contractors and employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled a funding opportunity to back rapid initiatives that will assist U.S. response efforts against COVID-19.

Some contractors working with agencies within the intelligence community are negotiating arrangements with contract officers on a case-by-case basis to continue to perform classified work during the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, said the federal government is implementing an “all-of-the-above” approach to procurement as it responds to the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. “They are doing [Other Transaction Authorities], they are doing contract ramping, commercial production, they are doing things like the Defense Production Act, so lots of different efforts,” McGinn said of federal agencies.