Acquisition

Sorting out NITAAC’s amendments to CIO-SP4

The solicitation for the new vehicle known as CIO-SP4 was barely out before it ran into protests. Since then NITAAC has issued eight amendments to the…

Contracting

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event on manufacturing and buying American-made products at UAW Region 1 headquarters in Warren, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Agencies on the hook to meet new Buy American acquisition goals for most products

Acquisition Policy

Tamzin B. Smith

Assembling a board of advisers for your company

Amtower Off-Center

An update on key DoD and VA procurement programs

Off the Shelf

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

FILE- This June 6, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. The U.S. Treasury has removed Vietnam and Switzerland from the list of nations labeled as currency manipulators, reversing a decision made by the Trump administration in December. In it's semi-annual report to Congress on currency manipulation, the first under the Biden administration, the U.S. Treasury Department said Friday, April 16, 2021, that no country currently meets the U.S. criteria. It said, however, that Vietnam, Switzerland, as well as Taiwan, will be placed under enhanced monitoring for their recent actions. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

56 federal financial systems nearing end of life puts Treasury on fast track to get shared services right

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021, file image from video, Jeff Zients, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president., Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair of the COVID-19 health equity task force, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team,, appear on screen during a White House briefing on the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. (White House via AP, File)

GAO: Agencies could’ve been more transparent in pandemic response OTA’s

Federal Newscast

Venable

What’s different — if anything — about Biden’s ‘Buy American’ agenda from past directives?

Acquisition

Executive order contains 72 initiatives on boosting competition in federal contracting

Contracting

The story of how one small business is barely hanging on to its hopes of winning a spot on NITAAC’s CIO-SP4

Reporter's Notebook

Making cost-reimbursement task orders part of the MAS Program

Commentary

In this photo made available by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile submarine USS Georgia, front, with the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal, transit the Strait of Hormuz in Persian Gulf, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. The vessels traversed the strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula on Monday, the U.S. Navy said, a rare announcement that comes amid rising tensions with Iran. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Indra Beaufort/U.S. Navy via AP)

First look at Senate NDAA adds $35B to DoD, takes all nonmilitary crimes out of chain of command

Congress

First Look

House task force pushes Pentagon to wean itself off Chinese sources

New proposals would require the Pentagon to treat supply chains as a “strategic priority” and identify a plan to get away from materials sourced from…

Defense

FILE - In this June 19, 2019, file photo cargo containers are stacked on a ship at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles. The market for small businesses cooled for the third straight quarter. That report comes from BizBuySell.com, an online marketplace for small companies that counted 2,444 transactions reported by business brokers from April through June, down 9.6% from 2,705 in the second quarter of last year. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Buy American initiative may push federal contractors to study shipping rules more closely

Federal contractors who ship stuff often overlook or don’t put a lot of bother into compliance with obscure federal shipping rules.

Congress

Warner says ‘time is now’ for cyber incident reporting legislation

Cybersecurity

A new bill in the Senate would require federal contractors, agencies and critical infrastructure operators to report cyber intrusions within 24 hours.

Acquisition

Sorting out NITAAC’s amendments to CIO-SP4

Agencies on the hook to meet new Buy American acquisition goals for most products

Assembling a board of advisers for your company

An update on key DoD and VA procurement programs

56 federal financial systems nearing end of life puts Treasury on fast track to get shared services right

GAO: Agencies could’ve been more transparent in pandemic response OTA’s

What’s different — if anything — about Biden’s ‘Buy American’ agenda from past directives?

Executive order contains 72 initiatives on boosting competition in federal contracting

The story of how one small business is barely hanging on to its hopes of winning a spot on NITAAC’s CIO-SP4

Making cost-reimbursement task orders part of the MAS Program

First look at Senate NDAA adds $35B to DoD, takes all nonmilitary crimes out of chain of command

House task force pushes Pentagon to wean itself off Chinese sources

Buy American initiative may push federal contractors to study shipping rules more closely

Warner says ‘time is now’ for cyber incident reporting legislation

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