OPM awarded a new seven-year contract to John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Company to administer the federal long-term care insurance program.
WashingtonTechnology.com editor Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of the protest environment, key recent mergers and acquisitions, and how to buy your way onto a GWAC. April 4, 2016
Richard Lieberman, a consultant and retired attorney, makes the case that agencies can’t pick and choose when to apply the Federal Acquisition Regulations to task orders under multiple award contracts.
The space agency plans to evaluate and get feedback on Ames Research Center’s Gryphon X proposal to take a more proactive approach to finding and fixing critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Bob Welch served as the senior procurement executive for the departments of Commerce and Treasury during his 30-year federal career.
Jack Midgley, executive officer, Defense and Social Infrastructure, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co. Ltd, joins host Roger Waldron on Off the Shelf to discuss Deloitte's Asia-Pacific Defense Outlook for 2016. April 5, 2015
The Army will release a new policy in June that will give deadlines for data centers to close and incentives for their data migration.
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director of Censeo Consulting Group, makes the case for why enterprise license agreements (ELAs) pave the way for future data and reporting required by government agencies to meet Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) policy guidelines.
The Joint Service Provider is creating massive savings, but still has roadblocks to get through.
Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss her vision for the DHS acquisition workforce, procurement operations, and government-industry communications. March 29, 2016
Rob Coen, director of the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss NITAAC's portfolio of government wide contract vehicles. March 22, 2016
VA Deputy CIO for Architecture, Strategy and Design Paul Tibbits said his agency wants to do more with cloud technology, but it needs a clearer message from private industry on what the technology can do for the agency.
A draft memo released for public comment March 29 would require GSA to run a governmentwide contract for mobile devices and services, and mandate agencies use that new vehicle by August 2018.
Third-party assessment organizations will play a larger role in getting cloud service providers ready for final certification by the Joint Authorization Board under an updated approach announced by the FedRAMP program on March 28.
Vendors are submitting bids on the next set of tools under phase 2 of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program while DHS is preparing for phase 3.