Acquisition Policy
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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s fourth hearing focusing on the implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) offered some insights into what lawmakers will expect from agencies next.
June 19, 2017 -
New data from Bloomberg Government shows more than 2,600 multiple award contracts across government, which is a drop of 8 percent over the last five years.
June 19, 2017 -
What is the state of the government IT channel? Find out when Bob Laclede, principal and owner of RPL Solutions, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. June 19, 2017
June 16, 2017 -
DISA is prepared to scrap buying unified capabilities from industry if the price is too high. The agency is prepared to move to an open source platform.
June 14, 2017 -
Scott Buchholz, chief technology officer for Deloitte Consulting LLP's Federal Government practice, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the company's 2017 report on technology trends and their impact on federal government operations. June 13, 2017
June 12, 2017 -
Tom Sharpe, the FAS Commissioner, and Kevin Youel Page, the deputy FAS Commissioner, have told staff they are leaving.
June 12, 2017 -
Industry experts reacted with optimism and surprise to the decision by the General Services Administration to merge the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service.
June 12, 2017 -
New data shows agencies bought $120 million more worth of agile services in 2016 than in 2015 as part of the growing demand for these capabilities.
June 12, 2017 -
The Homeland Security Department wants to align its procurement and technology organizations to change the culture from buying to acquisition.
June 12, 2017 -
Lisa Deluca, senior manager of Public Sector Marketing at Veritas Technologies, and Market Connections founder and President Lisa Dezzutti join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, for a wide ranging discussion of content marketing. June 12, 2017
June 08, 2017 -
An internal email obtained by Federal News Radio details the General Services Administration’s plan to move the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service to gain better efficiencies.
June 07, 2017 -
Heather Wilson, the newly-confirmed Secretary of the Air Force, wants to know whether her service’s acquisition professionals are actually using legislative provisions meant to help the Pentagon speed up and simplify the acquisition process
June 07, 2017 -
Orion Hindawi, CEO and co-founder of Tanium, offers three guiding principles to reform the IT acquisition process.
June 06, 2017 -
James MacStravic, who's performing the duties of undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics plans to spend the next year driving DoD toward better performance in IT acquisition, including by reducing the number of departmentwide policies on the topic.
June 06, 2017 -
Bob Lohfeld of Lohfeld Consulting joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss his new book: "10 Steps to Creating High-Scoring Proposals". June 5, 2017
June 04, 2017