Acquisition
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The program aims to fight the problem of "adversarial capital" by pairing companies working on promising military technology together with investors that DoD has verified are free of foreign influence.
January 14, 2021 -
Federal spending never stops rising, and that's certainly true of contracts spending. The pandemic has accelerated contract spending in several categories.
January 13, 2021 -
The General Services Administration is keeping contractors on their toes with the release of three acquisition initiatives — Polaris, the new small business governmentwide contract, and two requests for information around emerging technology and professional services.
January 12, 2021 -
New data in the Government Accountability Act’s fiscal 2020 report to Congress on bid protests shows that vendors received some sort of corrective action 51% of the time.
January 11, 2021 -
The Special Access Program Corporate Portfolio Program, begun as a pilot in 2016, became permanent last month.
January 11, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis from Bloomberg Government found agencies spent almost 700 billion dollars on procurement last year.
January 07, 2021 -
Two years after the Navy decentralized its cloud acquisitions, it's bringing all of them back under one program executive office's umbrella.
January 07, 2021 -
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is planning on expanding its 5G coverage in the first four months of 2021.
January 05, 2021 -
The omnibus appropriations bill recently passed by Congress is so large, it took a week to stuff it into whatever antiquated electronic system the Congress operates. But not all federal documents are so fat and bloated.
December 30, 2020 -
Missing the guardrails by inches, the nation's careening political apparatus has managed to fund the government for fiscal 2021.
December 29, 2020 -
DARPA's vision of how Joint All-Domain Command and Control could work contrasts with DoD's current approach to systems-of-systems, which the agency views as more of a jigsaw puzzle than a mosaic.
December 29, 2020 -
The top 10 Reporter’s Notebook stories of 2020 included cybersecurity, acquisition and the seemingly never-ending JEDI saga.
December 23, 2020 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Simon Szykman, chief technology officer at Attain, joins host Mark Amtower on Amtower Off Center to discuss the preparation and planning that federal agencies go through during presidential transitions.
December 23, 2020 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Martha Dorris, founder and CEO of Dorris Consulting joins host Mark Amtower to discuss customer experience and how it fits in the federal government.
December 22, 2020 -
The House Oversight and Reform Committee released the 11th FITARA scorecard where no agency received an "A" grade and 10 agencies earned B grades.
December 22, 2020