Acquisition Policy
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Cyber attacks travel at the speed of light and nothing the military has can keep up, least of all the acquisition process.
October 16, 2017 -
The market research firm Deltek found the small business sector has seen significant reductions over the last seven years.
October 16, 2017 -
The Defense Department and Army are changing the way they hire and train acquisition professionals.
October 13, 2017 -
Short of protesting a contract award to a competitor, there's nothing a contractor can do when it gets a bad performance rating.
October 12, 2017 -
As the Defense Department plans to split its acquisition office, it's planning on using existing authorities to take a bite out of contracting time.
October 11, 2017 -
Oracle called the government’s efforts to modernize technology "out of sync" and filled with "false narratives."
October 09, 2017 -
When agencies use the Defense Contract Audit Agency for cost audits, contractors wait for two years or longer for contract closeouts.
October 09, 2017 -
Attorney and government contracts expert Jonathan Aronie of Sheppard Mullins, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, for a wide ranging discussion of Section 801 of the Defense Authorization bill, the future of GSA schedules, and bid protests. October 9, 2017
October 08, 2017 -
The rates of growth around federal cybersecurity remains uncertain. Now the data analysis firm Govini has put some numbers around it.
October 04, 2017 -
David Garcia comes to OPM after spending two years as the state of Maryland CIO and is a political appointee.
October 02, 2017 -
Ariel Friedler, the founder and former CEO of Symplicity Corp., had his debarment overturned by the District Court of D.C.
October 02, 2017 -
Booz Allen Hamilton's Brian Abbe, Troy Abbot and Eric Billies join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the government's growing use of unmanned systems. October 3, 2017
October 01, 2017 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley and SAP Senior Director and Chief Legislative Counsel Tom Sisti join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the nexus between procurement policy and procurement operations. September 26, 2017
September 29, 2017 -
Sometimes procurement does come down to lowest price, but often contracting officers have to make tradeoffs.
September 28, 2017 -
Federal News Radio got a lift in the MH-139, a helicopter Boeing wants to replace the Bell UH-1N Twin Huey.
September 25, 2017