Rory Schultz, the chief technology officer of the Food and Nutrition Service at the Agriculture Department and government chair of the ACT-IAC joined the Federal Drive to discuss how the group\'s Voyagers program works, which connects IT workers in government and industry.
Rick Holgate, ATF\'s chief information officer, said a new IT infrastructure contract could be worth $40 million a year. The goal is to make the agency\'s network more agile to deliver managed services. August 4, 2011
Marty Bollinger, senior vice president and director of aerospace and defense practice at Booz & Co. discusses the prospects for the Defense Department budget, the impact of the debt ceiling on industry and the implications U.S. debt will have on policy.
On today\'s Federal Drive, an update on the FAA shutdown, the White House names a new federal chief information officer to replace Vivek Kundra and the General Services Administration adds nearly 600 small IT firms to the STARS II contract.
The General Services Administration has named 599 small disadvantaged firms to its 8(a) STARS II contract. The governmentwide IT contract, with a ceiling of $10 billion, is bigger and broader than its predecessors.
Host Roger Waldron will talk government contracting with Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the Integrated Technology Service at GSA\'s Federal Acquistion Service. August 2, 2011(Encore presentation August 16, 2011)
Cindy Troutman, the president of CGH Technologies, joined In Depth with Francis Rose, to give her perspective and to provide one snapshot of how the partial shutdown at FAA is affecting contractors.
Agency budgets will shrink by $7 billion next year. But no one knows where those cuts will happen. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal, sorts out what we know and what we don\'t.
Ashton Carter would take over for Bill Lynn, who announced in July he is retiring.
Jerry Rutkowski, vice president for federal programs at 1E, joined the Federal Drive to discuss his perspective on whether GSA\'s new green-contracting provisions will help or hurt IT contractors and how the new rule fits in with energy-efficient steps suppliers have already taken.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is urging Congress to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration before lawmakers fly home for the August break. LaHood said 4,000 FAA employees, about 70,000 workers in the private sector and more than 200 airport projects are depending on them.
Guy Timberlake is the head of the American Small Business Coalition, and he discusses what this deal might mean for your federal contracts.
As defense contractors face tighter global budgets many are buying up companies with niche technology services. In just the latest move, L-3 announced it would spin off its systems engineering division.
On today\'s Federal Drive, even though Washington\'s political leaders struck a deal on the debt limit, the FAA partial shutdown continues. Plus, more details on changes to OPM childcare benefits and buy-out guidance.
Contractors fear late or nonexistent payment from the government if the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. government defaults, a number of industry experts have said recently. Contractors are required to continue work even if there is a delay in payment from the government.