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News Tipoffs - Connecticut Editors Newsletter for Saturday July 13, 2024 ( 8 items )  

CMS Roundup (July. 12, 2024)
BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the following news release: Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency. CMS Proposes Rule to the Mitigate Impact of Significant, Anomalous, and Highly Suspect (SAHS) Billing Activity on Medicare Shared Savings Program June 28: CMS released a proposed rule titled "Medicare Program: Miti  more

Conn. U.S. Attorney: Dominican National Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PABEL MIGUEL ACOSTA-COLON, 36, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 22 months of imprisonment for distributing fentanyl. According to court do  more

Conn. U.S. Attorney: New London Man Charged With Cocaine Distribution and Firearm Possession Offenses
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging LUIS OLIVER-GARCIA, also known as "Bebo," 34, of New London, with cocaine distribution  more

Contracts for July 11, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: ARMY Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $251,483,904 modification (P00056) to contract W58RGZ-22-C-0010 for UH-60M aircraft. Work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2027. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement, Army funds; and Foreign Military Sales (Croatia and Jordan) funds in the amount of $251,483,904, were obligated   more

Contracts for July 12, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: ARMY Nakupuna Consulting LLC,* Arlington, Virginia, was awarded a $370,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the integration for functionality into the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 9, 2031. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Provin  more

DEEP Announces Notice of Availability of FY 2024 Funding Opportunity for Boating Infrastructure Grants
HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 13 -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is pleased to announce the release of a request for proposal for the Boating Infrastructure Grant Program. This competitive federal funding opportunity is offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Department of the Interior (DOI). DEEP will review and select qualifying  more

National Park Service Awards More Than $3.2 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Incarceration Sites
WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: The National Park Service today announced $3,273,639 in Japanese American Confinement Sites grants to support nine preservation, restoration, and education projects that help tell the story of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, incarcerated by the U.S. government following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and President Fr  more

Seaside State Park Planning Process Continues to Move Forward
HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release: * * * DEEP Seeking Additional Public Participation to Help Inform Passive Park Design of Connecticut's Newest State Park * * * Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) seeks public input to help inform the design of the Passive Park concept as it continues to make progress in its planning process for Seaside State Park i  more