Acquisition
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The Defense Department continues to be concerned about counterfeit parts making their way into weapons systems and virtually everything else it buys. The worries are that fake parts could cause mission critical systems to fail unexpectedly.
August 25, 2016 -
Beth Angerman, the executive director of the Unified Shared Services Management (USSM) Office, said the modernization and migration management (M3) framework, a new six-step playbook and a shared services catalog are putting the pieces in place to help agencies succeed in moving back-office systems to shared services.
August 24, 2016 -
New estimates from Government Accountability Office say the Defense Department has routinely dipped into its overseas contingency operations account to fund "enduring" requirements since 2009, but there's no way to tell which account ultimately funded any particular expense, making it very difficult for Congress to oversee DoD's operations and maintenance accounts. Andrew Von Ah, GAO's acting director for Defense Capabilities and Management, talked with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the O&M accounting problem.
August 24, 2016 -
After a six year decline in spending, budgets have begun to bounce back in 2016, and contract spending is expected to follow that upturn shortly after as the trend continues into 2017.
August 24, 2016 -
SAP Senior Director & Chief Legislative Counsel Tom Sisti joins host Roger Waldron to discuss category management, transactional data reporting and the current state of commerical item contracting. August 23, 2016
August 23, 2016 -
Final guidance for the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order includes a phase-in schedule for contractors, as well as an opportunity for pre-assessment from the Labor Department.
August 23, 2016 -
Michael Fischetti, executive director of NCMA, makes the case that agencies and industry are equally suffering because of changes to the federal market.
August 23, 2016 -
Immature technologies can sink an otherwise carefully planned program. That's why the Government Accountability Office is preparing a guide to help program and acquisition people evaluate the maturity of technology before they get stuck with it. Dr. Tim Persons, chief scientist at GAO, talked about the new guide on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 23, 2016 -
Michael Roark, DoD's assistant inspector general for contract management and payments, joined Pentagon Solutions to offer his insight on using vendor past performance in awarding federal contracts.
August 22, 2016 -
NASA’s Chief Information Officer Renee Wynn decided to let the authority to operate for its desktops, laptops and end user systems expire after ongoing cybersecurity problems with its contractor.
August 22, 2016 -
The General Services Administration held a reverse auction to set up contracts for five agencies to buy more than 45,000 laptops, desktops as part of a centralized procurement.
August 22, 2016 -
Mark Schwartz, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services chief information officer, said he’s implementing something called impact mapping to better manage how his agency uses dev/ops to move off legacy systems.
August 19, 2016 -
The software world is being flooded with open source product. In fact, the federal government has an open-source-first policy. But maybe it's time to stop and think about sources of open source. Where does all that code originate? The software supply chain. That's something Derek Weeks, vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype, looks at carefully. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 19, 2016 -
Barry Leffew, the vice president of Adobe Public Sector, left after 10 years.
August 18, 2016 -
Vendor past performance is a big factor in awarding federal contracts. Or it should be. It's a smart practice and at the Defense Department, it's also a requirement. That's why the DoD inspector general looked at 56 Army contracts awarded by five Army contracting shops to see whether the Army was consistent in evaluating past performance. Michael Roark, DoD's assistant inspector general for contract management and payments, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the results.
August 18, 2016