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Acquisition Policy
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The new Coast Guard chief acquisition officer is in place. Rear Adm. Joe Vojvodich is assistant commandant for acquisition at the Coast Guard and the chief acquisition officer. His portfolio includes three domains: aviation programs, surface programs and C4ISR. Admiral Vojvodich tells In Depth with Francis Rose about some of his current — and future — priorities in the surface programs portfolio.
August 24, 2015 -
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Geoff Livingston, president of Tenacity5 Media will discuss the state of social media with host Mark Amtower. August 24, 2015
August 24, 2015 -
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Congress will keep a close eye on whether the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act works for agencies as planned. Agencies were supposed to hand in their plans for implementing FITARA last week. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says it might consider giving agencies report cards to measure how well they stick to those plans. Dave Powner, director of information technology management issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why grades are a good idea and should push agencies to perform better.
August 20, 2015 -
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Frustrations over the Buy Indian Act are about as old as the law itself. Congress passed the bill back in 1910. It's supposed to open up Indian-owned businesses to the federal market. But it's unclear whether Buy Indian Act set-aside contracts take priority over other set-asides, especially at agencies like the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service. Steve Koprince, managing partner at Koprince Law, tells In Depth with Francis Rose what makes the bill so confusing.
August 20, 2015 -
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Ray Bjorklund, president of BirchGrove Consulting, discusses procurement spending in fiscal year 2015 and purchasing patterns across the federal government. August 18, 2015
August 18, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget just released new guidance on protecting non-sensitive information from federal contractors. The guidance would require contractors follow National Institute for Standards and Technology standards for protecting their information.
August 17, 2015 -
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Kevin DeSanto, co-founder and managing director of KippsDeSanto, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss mergers and acquisitions, including who is buying and who is selling. August 17, 2015
August 17, 2015 -
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GSA, on behalf of the Defense Information Systems Agency, made a $296 million award for email-as-a-service to Dell Federal. GSA made the award to Dell June 19.
August 17, 2015 -
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Retired Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose, president of the Meyerrose Group and former CIO of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Steve Grundman, the George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges at Brent Scowscroft Center on International Security of the Atlantic Council, count down the week's top stories with Francis Rose.
August 14, 2015 -
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Federal contractors have new guidance for protecting government information from the CIO and CAO Councils. Contractors will have to comply with some of the same standards agencies do. Jeremy Grant is managing director at the Cheroff Group and former director of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace at NIST. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what this means for contractors who will have to comply with these NIST standards.
August 13, 2015 -
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A measure of the health and strength of the government contracting industry is available through the GovCon Index. Executive Mosaic calculates it every day the stock market is open. Ross Wilkers is the newsroom editor of Executive Mosaic. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how you can use it to gauge the gov con space.
August 13, 2015 -
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New guidance on protecting non-sensitive information from federal contractors is out from the CIO and CAO Councils. It would require that contractors follow a specific NIST Special Publication for protecting their information. The Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies and vendors now for feedback. Final guidance is expected later in the fall. Nick Nayak is former chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the councils are looking to address incident reporting, information system assessments, and information security continuous monitoring.
August 12, 2015 -
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Federal contracting officers don't bargain hard enough, and aren't getting the best deals for the government. That's according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. And government buyers often don't seen enough competitive bids for products or services, even though it's generally required by law and regulation. Bill Woods is the Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at GAO. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the report.
August 12, 2015 -
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Agencies are under an Aug. 15 deadline to describe how they’ll implement the a key part of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. As part of a forthcoming FITARA dashboard, OMB wants to broadcast those plans as widely as possible.
August 12, 2015
