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This week on Amtower Off Center, Brian Chidester, Global Public Sector marketing executive for OpenText, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the benefits and challenges of using the "whole of government" approach to resolving issues in the federal government.
The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden's first year as president.
NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.
The order also creates "central review of agency waivers" of Buy American, with the General Services Administration posting them on a website.
If you buy for, or sell to the federal government, you can expect substantial change from the Biden administration.
This week on Off the Shelf, Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss how key provisions in the 2021 NDAA impact defense procurement policy and operations.
Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss his company's updated research on "The Visible Expert".
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy released three memos since October to give agencies guidance on buying from AbilityOne firms, emphasizing skills over education in contracts.
DISA launched its cloud-based internet isolation program as a way to keep malware off of DoD networks, but it also reduced the need for expensive IT infrastructure upgrades.
Federal agencies - and there are several of them at least - affected by the SolarWinds cybersecurity fiasco are under a new deadline.
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.
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.
The Special Access Program Corporate Portfolio Program, begun as a pilot in 2016, became permanent last month.
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.