Acquisition
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Parent awardee Iron Bow Technologies offered printers made by Lexmark, which is wholly owned by Chinese entities with close ties to that country's government.
April 26, 2018 -
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says there has been a lot of misconceptions about the JEDI contract.
April 24, 2018 -
Elliott Yama, the chief data analyst of Apttus, describes four procurement areas where AI and automation technologies can help.
April 24, 2018 -
Defense agency reorganizations in a bill from Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) are major concerns for federal contractors.
April 23, 2018 -
A new report from the U.S. China Commission details why agencies, contractors aren’t doing enough to protect their networks, systems from foreign suppliers.
April 23, 2018 -
The U.S. military is employing a mixture of procurement contracts and innovative practices to speed up the acquisition of defensive and offensive cyber technology.
April 23, 2018 -
The NDIA sponsors the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference to give SOCOM face-time with members of the defense industry to discuss gaps in capabilities and how industry can best fill them.
April 20, 2018 -
The second draft RFP, answers to questions and the cover memo raise more questions regarding the Defense Department's justification for a single award strategy.
April 20, 2018 -
Michael Beckerman, the president and CEO of the Internet Association, makes the case for why agencies should adopt commercial cloud services.
April 20, 2018 -
Rep. Mac Thornberry's (R-Texas) latest proposal for acquisition reform presses DoD to implement the initiatives Congress has already passed; borrows heavily from "809 panel" for new ones.
April 19, 2018 -
Chris Howard, the vice president of federal sales for Nutanix, explains why a multi-cloud environment for the military makes more sense.
April 18, 2018 -
Among more than 1,000 questions about DoD's upcoming JEDI contract, dozens of vendors questioned its single-award approach. But the Pentagon isn't changing its strategy.
April 17, 2018 -
The government contracting expert stressed the importance of making sure things are done correctly when dealing with the federal market.
April 16, 2018 -
Three different events show how lawmakers and vendors are getting more involved in the ongoing contest around JEDI.
April 16, 2018 -
The General Services Administration's System for Award Management still is recovering from a second fraud incident in the last three years.
April 16, 2018