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Congress fences off funds for the Defense Innovation Unit Experiment until DoD submits a report.
Congress is getting ready to vote on a defense authorization bill for 2017. The conference report, seeking to reconcile the Senate and House versions, has lots of stuff of interest to contractors. Alan Chvotkin, counsel and executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
Advocates and defenders of the federal bid protest process received some welcome news last week as part of the House-Senate agreement on this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The final deal stripped two key Senate provisions that were seen as hostile to the protest process.
The defense industry has gotten off to a good start implementing initial capabilities for insider threat programs, the Defense Security Service said. Cleared contractors had until Nov. 30 to develop and submit their plans for an insider threat program and appoint a senior official to lead and oversee it.
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental thinks it’s learned a thing or two about rapid acquisition over the year since its initial standup, and sees no good reason why the rest of the Defense Department can’t use the same techniques it’s put in place to award new contracts in 60 days or less.
This week on Off the Shelf, Jack Midgley, director in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s defense consulting practice, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the Internet of Things (IOT) Vulnerability Index and its economic, cybersecurity and defense implications across the globe. November 22, 2016
The Navy is trying to personalize health care for its patients by integrating it in their daily lives.
The Office of Personnel Management's CIO says modernizing legacy IT systems at civilian agencies like OPM is more than just updating software.
The House Armed Services Committee Chairman is hoping President-elect Donald Trump will introduce a supplemental defense budget when he gets in office.
The Defense Department’s top personnel official said Tuesday that the Pentagon used a flawed process when it decided to bar the nation’s largest for-profit college from military tuition assistance funds last year, and is drawing up new rules meant to be fairer to colleges while also ferreting out deceptive marketing processes.
Congress is doing away with Frank Kendall's position and is authorizing more troops for the services.
House Armed Services Committee Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Joe Heck confirms a 2.1 percent pay raise for troops.
Under a $2 million contract, Synack Government will use ethical hackers for penetration testing of IRS cybersecurity systems.
The Office of Personnel Management is behind on its background security checks and retirement claims processing for fiscal 2016. In the agency's financial report, OPM acting Director Beth Cobert pledges a continued effort to make up the difference through a variety of efforts like new contracts and using electronic records.