Contracts/Awards

• DPA will help Biden lead a more federal-centric response to COVID

  The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden's first year as president.

  Contracting

  January 27, 2021
• DARPA awards contract to use AI for software maintenance

  DARPA awarded a contract to GrammaTech, whose vice president of research, Alexey Loginov, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what it is and why it's important.

  Artificial Intelligence

  January 27, 2021
• Can the SolarWinds incident spur more action, less talk about supply chain security?

  NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.

  Reporter's Notebook

  January 25, 2021
• An analysis of the 2021 NDAA

  This week on Off the Shelf, Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss how key provisions in the 2021 NDAA impact defense procurement policy and operations.

  Off the Shelf

  January 20, 2021
• The benefits of being a ‘visible expert’

  Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss his company's updated research on "The Visible Expert".

  Amtower Off-Center

  January 20, 2021
• OFPP Administrator Wooten gives Frictionless Acquisition a boost on his way out the door

  The Office of Federal Procurement Policy released three memos since October to give agencies guidance on buying from AbilityOne firms, emphasizing skills over education in contracts.

  Reporter's Notebook

  January 20, 2021
• DISA’s first-ever production OTA eliminated $300M in future costs

  DISA launched its cloud-based internet isolation program as a way to keep malware off of DoD networks, but it also reduced the need for expensive IT infrastructure upgrades.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  January 18, 2021
• GSA kick starts 2021 with an acquisition potpourri

  The General Services Administration is keeping contractors on their toes with the release of three acquisition initiatives — Polaris, the new small business governmentwide contract, and two requests for information around emerging technology and professional services.

  Reporter's Notebook

  January 12, 2021
• When it comes to bid protests, vendors playing with even money at GAO

  New data in the Government Accountability Act’s fiscal 2020 report to Congress on bid protests shows that vendors received some sort of corrective action 51% of the time.

  Reporter's Notebook

  January 11, 2021
• Contract spending reached 5-year high in 2020

  In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis from Bloomberg Government found agencies spent almost 700 billion dollars on procurement last year.

  Federal Newscast

  January 07, 2021
• From JEDI to CIA to TIC: The stories that made 2020

  The top 10 Reporter’s Notebook stories of 2020 included cybersecurity, acquisition and the seemingly never-ending JEDI saga.

  Reporter's Notebook

  December 23, 2020
• Customer experience: What is it and why is it needed?

  This week on Amtower Off Center, Martha Dorris, founder and CEO of Dorris Consulting joins host Mark Amtower to discuss customer experience and how it fits in the federal government.

  Amtower Off-Center

  December 22, 2020
• DoD, Microsoft ask court to dismiss Amazon’s political bias claims in JEDI case

  Lawyers for Microsoft and the government are asking a federal court to dismiss key portions of Amazon’s lawsuit over the Defense Department’s JEDI Cloud contract, in a nutshell, because the claims in question were raised too late to be legally viable.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  December 21, 2020
• Judge sides with Navy in latest challenge to $7.7 billion NGEN contract

  The court decision likely paves the way for the Navy to transition to the new NGEN contract, though Perspecta may still take its case to an appellate court.

  Navy

  December 18, 2020