Acquisition

The Advanced Battle Management System will conduct demonstrations every four months to test program connectivity.

Mary Davie, GSA’s director of the program management office for human resources shared services, will leave the agency after 30 years on Feb. 3.

Pitch days are growing in popularity. They often go with the use of non-traditional acquisition techniques.

Gen. John Hyten, the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says DoD must fix its requirements processes — not just its acquisition rules — if it wants to solve its software development challenges.

DISA is moving toward iterative or agile approaches to acquisition and projects in order to avoid planning and implementation mistakes of the past.

Seyfarth Law Firm construction and government contracts attorney Teddie Arnold joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for details.

Kelly Morrison, a senior advisor at USAID, and Mona Siddiqui, the HHS CDO, are among several federal technology executives who are moving to the private sector in early 2020.

Jennie Main, the CMS chief operating officer, and Rajiv Uppal, the CMS CIO, in separate panels detailed how the agency is retraining employees and focusing more on collaboration and customer needs.

As the Trump administration prepares to dramatically ramp up its continuous evaluation capabilities in the coming years, industry is asking for access to some of the data collected from cleared contractors. That information, industry says, will better inform their own insider threat programs.

Here are six of the biggest contracts of the coming year, according to a Jan. 15 Bloomberg Government webinar, as well as a few notable opportunities for small businesses as well.

Dan Snyder, the director of government contracts at Bloomberg Government, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a look ahead.

Joanne Woytek, program director of NASA SEWP, joins host Mark Amtower on Amtower Off Center, to discuss the program’s recent growth, and shares her vision on how to make buying from and selling through SEWP as seamless as possible for contractors.

The Defense Acquisition University is helping with frameworks and best practices.

The Executive Vice President and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for details.