The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 told federal agencies to seriously consider if commercial items would meet acquisition program requirements before building new systems.
Three procurement actions show the Defense Department’s continued push to move data and applications to off premise cloud services.
The systems commands will now have a $500 million ceiling for OTA contracts.
Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione spoke with Navy acquisition chief James Geurts during the Modern Day Marine Military Expo in Quantico, Virginia.
The Joint Tactical Networking Center is using open systems to create the next generation of tactical radio systems and be interoperable across the military services.
The executives from KarSun Solutions discussed why the IT modernization effort is helping bring innovation to the federal procurement market.
Suzette Kent, the federal chief information officer, said Monday the new cloud smart strategy reflects eight years of learning and maturity.
The Defense Innovation Unit picks someone with extensive Silicon Valley-experience as a new leader after almost seven months.
OFPP has been without a permanent administrator for almost two years and with no nominee in sight, experts question whether having a Senate confirmed one matters any more.
Homeland Security started a procurement innovation lab which hosted workshops for the contractor associations.
Exercising options comes with pretty strict rules. Often the government goofs, and that can be costly.
As threshold matter, the Air Force pilot overlaps the Section 846 e-commerce effort underway at GSA and OMB.
Besides cost, schedule and performance, the Defense Department is going to want products that are secure under the Deliver Uncompromised initiative.
A day after releasing one half of the final NGEN RFP, the Navy releases a draft version of the other, saying it's made several changes.
In today's Federal Newscast, the State Department said the breach potentially exposed the personally identifiable information of about 1 percent of its employees.