Acquisition
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The Pentagon is encouraging defense contractors to up their cybersecurity game, but new requirements could take until 2023 to show up in contracts.
November 10, 2021 -
Imagine Nation, the annual leadership conference put on by the American Council for Technology Industry Advisory Council, returned to in-person earlier this week.
November 10, 2021 -
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have concluded the federal procurement system isn't nearly as competitive as it should or could be. For more on what they looked at and what they found, Federal Drive talked to Karam Kang, one of the project's co-authors
November 10, 2021 -
Multibillion dollar award goes to Homesafe Alliance, LLC, a venture led by KBR. The company initially lost the contract last year, but lodged a successful bid protest.
November 04, 2021 -
The Pentagon is revising its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program by massively reducing the amount of companies that would require third-party assessments and providing new waiver processes for select requirements.
November 04, 2021 -
DoD's use of other transaction agreements has expanded ten-fold in the past five years, but even inside the acquisition workforce, there are still persistent myths about what OTAs can and can't do.
November 04, 2021 -
Bill Morris, business operations manager at Noblis RunAcquisitions, says rather than being overwhelmed by the growing complexity of acquisitions, agencies employing lifecycle acquisitions management can streamline their operations.
November 03, 2021 -
The Air Force's Office of Financial Management and Comptroller is making lots of moves to improve its IT, including developing a new acquisition strategy, hiring a CDO, implementing automation and addressing ICAM issues.
November 02, 2021 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency annual forecast to industry day highlighted several upcoming contract opportunities, but more importantly laid out the path the agency is heading for the next year.
November 02, 2021 -
Sheppard Mullin partners Jonathan Aronie, Ryan Roberts, and Denise Giraudo, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the implementation of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors.
November 01, 2021 -
The system allows ACC to continuously update software and provide patches.
October 29, 2021 -
Few people have more experience in the intricacies of federal procurement than Soraya Correa. Now she's been inducted as a fellow into the National Academy of Public Administration.
October 29, 2021 -
In a report to Congress, GSA says it would be too expensive to test out the e-procurement and e-commerce platform approaches under the commercial platform initiative.
October 27, 2021 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement and CompTIA wrote separate letters to GSA asking for clarification and offering feedback on two issues related to cloud computing.
October 26, 2021 -
Nico Papafil, director of the General Services Administration’s 10x program, said the program will fund more such ideas than ever before in fiscal 2022.
October 22, 2021