Acquisition

Christie Canaria, the Small Business Innovation Research program director at the National Cancer Institute and a finalist for the Women in Technology leadership award, said her role in helping small business successful navigate the Small Business Innovation Research program depends bring an assortment of ideas to the table.

This week on Amtower Off Center, Ray Bjorklund of Birchgrove Consulting joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the steps contractors can take to make sure they are targeting the right federal agencies for their products and services.

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), along with Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), asked Senate leadership to include a provision in the next stimulus bill to extend Section 3610 provisions that provide paid leave, including sick leave, to employees and subcontractors until Dec. 31, 2021.

Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on brand differentiation, content creation, social selling, and how to leverage visible experts to help grow your business.

Early in 2020, as a pandemic prepared to wreak havoc across the United States, HHS was a major part of the equation in dealing with an environment almost no one really imagined: large-scale telework.

Michael Wooten, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said under the frictionless acquisition cross-agency priority goal under the President’s Management Agenda agencies have a series of goals and milestones over the next 18 months.

This week on Amtower Off Center, Bloomberg Government’s Daniel Snyder joins host Mark Amtower to talk about STARS III, CIO-SP4, Alliant 2 and other large contracts that are emerging by the end of this fiscal year and early FY 2021.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition Shawn Barnes said he wants to get to the point where Space Force has a “planning force” that drives the dollars so that the “program force” can be more functional.

Talk about a mixed bag. There’s pandemic and a record season, the federal contracting spending, how ready is your company for all of this?

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration publishes a colorful guide to a complicated issue — the ban on Chinese telecommunications gear.

FAR Council took too long to get out new rules on acquisition of Chinese telecommunication products – one of the most critical rules in years.

Defense officials say COVID-19 “shattered the myth” that employees can’t be productive while teleworking. In many cases, they’re more productive than ever.

The Air Force is getting ready to expand the number of bases where it wants to install and test 5G capabilities.

There may be no clear path yet on how the economy will restart, or the precise roadmap that contractors should follow, but these preparations will provide a distinct advantage over competitors who prefer to take a “wait and see” approach to the recovery.