Commentary
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In leading GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Commissioner Sonny Hashmi has established “North Star Goals” for the organization in its efforts to support customer agency missions on behalf of the American people. North Star Goals are generally long-term, stretch goals.
May 19, 2023 -
John Zangardi, the CEO of Redhorse Corp. and former CIO at DHS and the Navy, explains why knowing what’s on your network is foundational to achieving a zero trust architecture.
May 17, 2023 -
Meticulous documentation of past success, leaning on conditions for special groups such as small business or minority business owners and utilizing a red team to review both your and competition’s likely submissions are all ways to identify the right arguments for a successful protest based on a flawed past performance evaluation.
May 16, 2023 -
Jason Lee Bakke, director of Chaedrol LLC, explains how contractors can improve their oversight and processes to pay GSA its Industrial Funding Fee off schedule contracts.
May 15, 2023 -
Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, writes in his blog that GSA's memo from March extending the economic price adjustment (EPA) highlighted unnecessary, inappropriate and counterproductive pricing language in the MAS solicitation.
May 12, 2023 -
Ed Meagher, a former deputy chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says the evidence is clear that the new electronic health records system has failed and will not work and is making things worse for veterans and VA medical centers.
May 10, 2023 -
Integrating AI into the State Department’s key operations is not only essential for agency modernization, it can also revolutionize the way that America approaches diplomatic affairs.
May 10, 2023 -
The White House seeks to narrow the growing chasm between the immense power companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle wield over the country’s digital fortunes and the few tools the government has to ensure their cybersecurity practices keep more than their pocketbooks in mind.
May 09, 2023 -
Missions require innovative approaches to unlocking the data that maintains battlespace advantage. By leveraging key technologies such as API-based data interchange, microservices architectures, AI and ML, warfighters can make decision support more automated and repeatable at the edge.
May 08, 2023 -
Michael Gifford, a senior strategist at CivicActions, offers suggestions for how the federal government can borrow ideas and concepts from other countries to make sure all citizens can access federal services.
May 05, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management, under both the current and previous administration, successfully opened up thousands of federal jobs to more Americans by eliminating unnecessary degree requirements for federal positions for which a formal education is neither required nor a reliable predictor of a candidate’s ability to successfully do the job.
May 04, 2023 -
The recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy will make lasting changes in our approach to cybersecurity and establishing resilience for the federal government as well as within critical infrastructure.
May 03, 2023 -
Richard Beutel, senior researcher at the George Mason Center for Government Contracting and founder of Cyrrus Analytics LLC, a leading cloud policy boutique, explains why the White House’s new cyber strategy threatens the use of commercial-off-the-shelf IT projects across the government.
May 02, 2023 -
Federal agencies and our nation’s critical infrastructure – such as energy, transportation systems, communications and financial services — are dependent on technology systems to carry out fundamental operations and to process, maintain and report vital information.
May 01, 2023 -
The 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy is a momentous document that will have a lasting influence on the global digital ecosystem. One aspect of the strategy’s intent is to “reimagine cyberspace” as a tool to improve trust in the United States’ democratic institutions.
April 28, 2023