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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is urging Congress to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration before lawmakers fly home for the August break. LaHood said 4,000 FAA employees, about 70,000 workers in the private sector and more than 200 airport projects are depending on them.
August 02, 2011 -
Guy Timberlake is the head of the American Small Business Coalition, and he discusses what this deal might mean for your federal contracts.
August 01, 2011 -
As defense contractors face tighter global budgets many are buying up companies with niche technology services. In just the latest move, L-3 announced it would spin off its systems engineering division.
August 01, 2011 -
On today\'s Federal Drive, even though Washington\'s political leaders struck a deal on the debt limit, the FAA partial shutdown continues. Plus, more details on changes to OPM childcare benefits and buy-out guidance.
August 01, 2011 -
Contractors fear late or nonexistent payment from the government if the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. government defaults, a number of industry experts have said recently. Contractors are required to continue work even if there is a delay in payment from the government.
July 29, 2011 -
The General Services Administration has become the first federal agency to move its entire workforce to a cloud-based email product. GSA said it moved all 17,000 of its users all at one time, but it couldn\'t have pulled off the transition without months of planning, training and preparation.
July 28, 2011 -
Host Roger Waldron is joined by Stan Collender, partner with Qorvis Communications and Jason Workmaster, partner with the McKenna, Long, and Aldridge law firm. They will talk about how contractors would be affected if the debt ceiling isn\'t raised. July 26, 2011
July 26, 2011 -
Witnesses at a Senate field hearing in Laurel, Md. said the government\'s tight budget is tough on the small businesses that are bidding for cybersecurity contracts. Federal agency representatives, on the other hand, say they\'re reaching out to small businesses.
July 25, 2011 -
Host Mark Amtower will talk debt crisis, cloud computing and other issues with Federal News Radio\'s Francis Rose. July 25, 2011(Encore presentation August 15, 2011)
July 25, 2011 -
New environmental standards for IT products from GSA may end up hurting specialty buyers, according to Larry Allen, founder of Allen Federal Business Partners and former president of the Coalition for Government Procurement.
July 25, 2011 -
An Army-commissioned study finds that since 1996, the service has spent more than a billion dollars per year on defense systems that wound up being cancelled. Army leaders say they recognize the problem, and have already begun moving aggressively toward reform.
July 22, 2011 -
David Maurer, the director of homeland security and justice issues at GAO told Federal News Radio, the latest Government Accountability Office report on DHS acquisition contains three key areas for improvement, including better defined requirements and more testing and evaluation of technologies.
July 21, 2011 -
Learn more about how the new set-aside rule for women owned businesses is working from Penny Pompei, national executive director of Women Construction Owners and Executives.
July 21, 2011 -
By Ruben Gomez Federal News Radio The General Services Administration (GSA) will revamp federal IT purchase contracts, in keeping with the administration’s National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship released Wednesday. GSA will remove all products that…
July 20, 2011 -
Alan Boykin, chief learning officer at the National Contract Management Association, told Federal News Radio that government and industry should keep the lines of communication open, especially as uncertainty abounds about how the failure to raise the debt ceiling would impact federal spending.
July 20, 2011