Acquisition
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Commerce Department CIO Steven Cooper says he'd like to see more flexibility when it comes to acquisition and collaboration with industry. One way to get it, he says, is through added language in the IT Modernization Fund.
June 29, 2016 -
Jack Midgley, executive officer, Defense and Social Infrastructure, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co. Ltd., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the company's 2016 Global Defense Outlook. June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016 -
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is doubling the amount of contractors competing to provide financial management consultation for the TSP.
June 28, 2016 -
This week, Pentagon solutions looks at how the Defense Department is trying to tackle insider threats within the contract space. Also, what's congress doing to address the bid protest problem?
June 28, 2016 -
Monica Mayk, vice president of Client Services for Market Connections Inc,, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss thought leadership, content marketing and the role of media in marketing. June 27, 2016
June 24, 2016 -
Leaders at the Homeland Security Department say they need industry's help to meet agency mission, and modernize the department's acquisition and cybersecurity efforts.
June 24, 2016 -
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A powerful driver of federal acquisition policy is suspicion the government isn't getting the absolute lowest prices vendors have to offer.
June 24, 2016 -
The General Services Administration issued the final rule around data transaction reporting requiring vendors under the schedules contracts and governmentwide acquisition contracts to provide more detailed information about what agencies are buying.
June 23, 2016 -
Silicon Valley technology company Palantir plans to sue the Army, claiming that the military service has shown bias against off-the-shelf products in its solicitation for a $206 million intelligence IT contract.
June 22, 2016 -
Congressional staffers addressed some of the President's concerns with the 2017 defense authorization bill.
June 21, 2016 -
DoD's Third Offset strategy started investing in new areas last year to give the U.S. a technological advantage.
June 20, 2016 -
Reform seems to be the watchword of the week. Reform of federal spending, reform of acquisition. Could we see some real action in the next year? Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin he thinks so.
June 20, 2016 -
Both the House and Senate are proposing protest reform in their versions of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, but would these reforms be helpful? Stuart Turner, a counsel at the law firm Arnold and Porter, offers his analysis on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
June 20, 2016 -
The RRB issued an interim rule to increase penalties under the False Claims Act for the first time in 20 years.
June 20, 2016