Acquisition

Now is the time to weigh in on the future of federal HR services

The Office of Personnel Management HR Quality Service Management Office is asking for vendors and agency to give feedback on the HR Federal Integrated…

Shared Services

Strategic asset spotlight: GSA’s OASIS

Commentary

cybersecurity maturity model certification

Big questions continue to swirl around CMMC in 2023

Acquisition Policy

A new way to measure the government’s supply chain security readiness

Federal Newscast

Increased contract spending a boon for small businesses

Contracting

Top tech issues in the federal market

Amtower Off-Center

White House sets standard code for federal scientists to follow across government

Agency Oversight

What economists are saying about the FTC’s new proposed ban on noncompete agreements

Contracting

Ask the CIO: NASA Procurement Innovation

Ask the CIO

Transactional data reporting: Providing data needed to facilitate program management

Commentary

2022: The year in procurement

Off the Shelf

FILE - An American flag flies in front of the facade of Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems facility, in Woburn, Mass on June 10, 2019. China said Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, it will impose new sanctions on U.S. defense contractors Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin due to their arms sales to Taiwan, stepping up a feud with Washington over security and Beijing’s strategic ambitions. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Even big, old-line contractors run into trouble with Defense cost accounting rules

A dispute between the Defense Department and old-line contractor Raytheon shows how tricky the rules are for cost accounting. In one recent case, Raytheon…

Contracting

How the Patent and Trademark office is preparing for its next 5 years

Judging by the pace of patent applications, intellectual property is expanding fast in the United States and around the world. Without innovation, it’s…

Agency Oversight

Trends shaping the federal procurement market

Off the Shelf

Brian Friel, Co-Founder of BD Squared, LLC, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion of the federal procurement market, including the impending re-competes of major governmentwide contract vehicles.