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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. That executive order on cybersecurity from the White House last week – where do you even…
May 18, 2021 -
The United States will likely be involved in Iraq at some level for a long time. It still has contracting going on via the State Dept. Recently State's Office of Inspector General looked at whether contracting activity was properly staffed to ensure oversight. For more, the Federal Drive turned to the director of the OIG's office of audits, Mike Vennemann.
May 17, 2021 -
A careful examination of DoD's use of consortiums for other transaction agreements found the Pentagon doesn't have a clear picture of its billions in OTA spending, who the recipients are, and what it's getting for those investments.
May 17, 2021 -
Edward Tuorinsky, the managing principal of DTS, and Derek Kernus, the Director of Cyber Security Operations at DTS, offers three things to consider as the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements become more real.
May 14, 2021 -
President Joe Biden mandated dozens of new steps to address long-standing cybersecurity challenges in a new executive order signed Wednesday.
May 13, 2021 -
The Navy wants to leverage some of the work its major contractors have already done on digital engineering, but legal issues and intellectual property rights pose challenges.
May 13, 2021 -
The Defense Department is awarding more and more contracts to small businesses and companies that usually don’t do business with the Pentagon. In fact, the military is going out of its way to reach out…
May 10, 2021 -
Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, wrote in a blog post that the Transactional Data Reporting pilot proved it’s a worthy replacement for the dreaded Price Reduction Clause.
May 10, 2021 -
Following an apparently successful pilot project, DoD plans to start negotiations with SAP Concur on the price tag to fully replace its existing system.
May 10, 2021 -
Even for the government, the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a complicated apparatus.
May 07, 2021 -
In Part 3 of his series, Roger Waldron examines the unprecedented success of OASIS SB and OASIS Unrestricted in delivering best value mission support to customer agencies for complex, professional services, especially DoD.
May 07, 2021 -
The Postal Service is rolling out artificial intelligence tools across 195 of its processing centers to give the agency greater visibility into the terabytes of data it already captures from incoming packages each day.
May 07, 2021 -
For decades observers of federal spending patterns have focused on the rush to use up contracting dollars in the fourth quarter. But this year, an equal but opposite phenomenon has emerged.
May 04, 2021 -
For some contractors a $15-an-hour minimum wage is a moot issue. For others, it would have a lot of implications for profits and competitiveness.
May 04, 2021 -
A bill that would remove sexual assault investigations from the military chain of command now has 46 Senate co-sponsors, including 10 Republicans.
May 03, 2021