Acquisition
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The Office of Management and Budget issued two more memos, focusing on personal data breach response requirements and industry and vendor communications.
January 09, 2017 -
NASA SEWP Program Manager Joanne Woytek and Allen Federal President Larry Allen join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss SEWP activity in 2016 and how GWACs help CIOs with FITARA. January 9, 2017
January 08, 2017 -
When the Defense Department recently awarded two giant contracts to manage health care services, it had smooth sailing in spite of protests. That's a marked contrast from five years ago when several awards were overturned on protest. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on how they managed things in 2016.
January 05, 2017 -
Soraya Correa, the chief procurement officer at DHS, said the agency is emphasizing to acquisition employees and program managers the importance of addressing challenges in a different way.
January 04, 2017 -
U.S. Cyber Command is creating a 10 person team to handle the $75 million a year it will have for acquisition.
January 03, 2017 -
Comments were due last week on a Defense Department rule concerning government use of unclassified contractor information. It may have been mistletoe and egg-nog time, but that didn't prevent the Professional Services Council from weighing in. Alan Chvotkin, PSC's executive vice president and counsel, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
January 03, 2017 -
One of the main tenets of the Pentagon's Better Buying Power initiative is changing procurement for the better.
January 02, 2017 -
Meagan Metzger, founder of Dcode42, continued her discussion Erwin Godoy, the Chief Innovation Strategist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Enterprise Innovation Office, talking about how the technology industry and the federal government can work together toward common goals.
January 02, 2017 -
President-elect Donald Trump watched four F-35s fly over the Army-Navy Game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Forty-eight hours later, he fired off a tweet that would cost the company that built the F-35 nearly $4 billion.
January 02, 2017 -
Cornell University history professor and author Barry Strauss joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss marketing and business leadership strategies learned from military lessons. January 2, 2017
December 31, 2016 -
The technology industry wants to transform the federal IT market that brings about new ways to fund, develop, procure, deliver, manage and sustain innovative technology solutions.
December 30, 2016 -
Government would grind to a halt faster without contractors than without a permanent budget bill. Yet like their federal employee counterparts, contractors spend a lot of time trying to interpret the tea leaves as the Trump administration prepares to take over. Especially information technology companies. With what contractors are expecting and hoping, Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for the public sector at the Information Technology Industry Council, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 29, 2016 -
Through executive orders, the White House enacted more than a half dozen significant changes on matters ranging from nondiscrimination against LGBT employees to minimum wage rules affecting contractors. All of them are likely targets for repeal by the Trump administration. Ken Rosenberg, a partner at the law firm Fox Rothschild talks with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what’s ahead.
December 29, 2016 -
Cybsersecurity, customer service, even deep space exploration are on the list of federal agencies' Performance.gov goals in fiscal 2016-17.
December 28, 2016 -
Information technology and how the government buys it is an $85 billion a year tab for the federal government. Plus it's something every agency deals with. Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a look ahead at what 2017 and the Trump administration will bring to these two crucial activities.
December 28, 2016