Acquisition Policy

  • Alicia Sanchez, the games czar at the Defense Acquisition University, explains how online games are helping workers learn about procurement.

    December 09, 2010
  • At one conference, the Government Contract Management Conference, we learn about plans for a NEW conference from NASA\'s Joanne Woytek.

    December 09, 2010
  • Between budget and acquisition reform, things are changing fast in procurement at the Defense Department. Dayton Aerospace\'s Gary Poleskey gives us his view.

    December 09, 2010
  • The USPS OIG has completed a new report to determined if contracting officers issued letters to contracting officer\'s representatives detailing their responsibilities and limitations and if invoices were properly certified. To explain what the means for us is the Postal Service\'s Judy Leonhardt.

    December 09, 2010
  • GCMC is an annual conference which provides premier professional development and networking opportunities to the greatest minds in the contracting, acquisition, and procurement fields. We learn more from conference chair Terry Raney.

    December 09, 2010
  • More than 800 contracting, acquisition, and procurement professionals from both government and private industry will gather in Arlington, Virginia, for NCMA\'s 29th Annual Government Contract Management Conference. WFED\'s Tom Temin gives us a preview.

    December 09, 2010
  • The Agriculture Department would be the second major agency to announce it\'s taking critical functions to the commercial cloud.

    December 08, 2010
  • The Defense Acquisition University has launched the first ever Department of Defense casual games site. Games Czar Alicia Sanchez explains.

    December 08, 2010
  • This week, host Larry Allen speaks with Carrie Coogan, vice president of consulting for FedSources, about challenges confronting those entering the federal market. December 7, 2010 (Encore Presentation)

    December 07, 2010
  • GSA announced last week that it has hired Unisys to move its e-mail to the cloud. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller reports agencies and vendors are closely watching the move as a “proof of concept for the rest of government.” Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra admits if GSA shows moving its e-mail to the [...]

    December 06, 2010
  • The agency will implement e-mail in the cloud using Google Apps for Government under an almost $7 million deal with Unisys. Many agencies are paying attention to how GSA implements this technology. GSA\'s CIO or Unisys could not confirm whether the datacenter is located in the U.S.

    December 06, 2010
  • The rationale behind the site was to serve as a place where professionals in the Acquisition workforce could go to play games that were related to the \"core competencies\" that are central to Acquisition.

    December 03, 2010
  • The federal CIO Vivek Kundra will roll out specifics about the administration\'s plan to change the way agencies buy and manage technology. The administration wants to give CIOs more authority over the budget for commodity IT such as e-mail or infrastructure. Kundra also said 2012 budget request will include requirements for continuous monitoring of agency networks.

    December 03, 2010
  • Rob Burton, former deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and currently an attorney at Venable Law Firm, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss how the events of 2010 will shape the procurement community next year.

    December 02, 2010