Acquisition
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The transactional data rule is something the General Services Administration has instituted to try and move away from the price reduction clause some day. But it's turning out to be a slow and expensive system to get up and running. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin he's wondering who's going to pay?
October 03, 2016 -
The National Technical Information Service is getting ready to announce the names of private sector organizations chosen to help agencies meet their mission using big data.
September 29, 2016 -
The Cancer Moonshot initiative is increasingly relying on open data to link patients with treatments, but with that data sharing come questions of how best to protect confidential and personal information.
September 29, 2016 -
Four new special item numbers for cybersecurity services sound like great opportunities. But, Alex Major, a partner at the law firm McCarter & English, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin SINS could get some contractors in a lot of trouble.
September 29, 2016 -
Cybersecurity is a SIN, a special item number that is. The General Services Administration established several SINs under schedule 70 for cybersecurity services it believes are in high demand. For an update how these special item numbers are doing, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Mary Davie, the GSA's assistant commissioner for Integrated Technology Services.
September 29, 2016 -
The Defense Department's failing space acquisitions are getting attention from lawmakers.
September 28, 2016 -
When it comes to the technological superiority of the Army’s battlefield equipment, officials worry it’s on the wane because of a sort of a perfect storm
September 28, 2016 -
Jonathan Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the acquisition provisions in the pending National Defense Authorization Act. September 27, 2016
September 27, 2016 -
The Coalition of Defense and Space Industry Associations, which includes six large industry groups, wrote to the FAR Council asking for the final rule implementing the President’s executive order requiring vendors to disclose violations of 14 labor laws to be pushed out another year.
September 27, 2016 -
The Defense Department will ask Congress for another wartime find when lawmakers come back from their fall recess.
September 27, 2016 -
DoD shuffled some funds around this summer to give some IC cyber projects a funding bump.
September 26, 2016 -
Beyond the headlines involving a new name for the B-21 long-range strike bomber, a doubling of the Air Force’s drone pilots and several new initiatives by the new chief of staff, there was an abundance of lesser-noticed news during the three days of events at the Air Force Association’s annual conference.
September 26, 2016 -
Multiple sources confirm that software giant Oracle will no longer sell directly or indirectly through the IT schedule program.
September 26, 2016 -
The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial services.
September 26, 2016 -
Vendors who won a spot on the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts received the notice to proceed, but the Alliant 2 solicitation faces another protest.
September 26, 2016