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Bill Woods, director with the Acquisition and Sourcing Management team at the US Government Accountability Office, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss GAO's mission, structure and operations. January 26, 2016
January 18, 2016 -
Crowell & Moring hosted a webinar for government contractors on what to expect this year, from election predictions to intellectual property rights.
January 18, 2016 -
The Defending America’s Small Contractors Act of 2016 would make the ability to protest task orders worth more than $10 million permanent.
January 18, 2016 -
OMB will issue two new policies in the coming months. One for enterprise software licensing, which currently is in draft, and another on IT mobile services.
January 18, 2016 -
If you're a defense contractor, one of your toughest dance partners is Tina. Take a wrong step with her and your whole company could end up under and audit investigation. Tina stands for the Truth in Negotiation Act. It's companion regulation in FAR part 15, though, it is undergoing revision thanks to the Pentagon's Better Buying Power program. Attorney Vincent Napoleon, a partner at Nixon Peabody, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the details on the changes.
January 15, 2016 -
Talk about a procurement gone wrong from the beginning. In contracting for training services for its fliers, the Navy made several mistakes. Big ones. Not surprisingly, the Government Accountability Office sustained the protest brought by Cortek. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of the Washington firm Petrillo and Powell shares some lessons on what not to do on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 14, 2016 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, argues OMB and GSA are not following the money when trying to improve federal procurement processes.
January 11, 2016 -
The most read reporter's notebooks in 2015 had a variety of topics, but cybersecurity and personnel changes seemed to be most popular.
January 11, 2016 -
The Office of Special Counsel decided not to go forward with a proposed regulation that would have expanded the rights of contractors' employees to submit complaints to OSC.
January 07, 2016 -
Record false claims recoveries, increases in minimum wages, rising protests of the big contracts, and new cybersecurity rules and sanctions, even putting tight budgets aside, it's been a tough year for federal contractors. Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to attorney Tim Sullivan of Thompson Coburn to find out what federal contractors can expect in 2016.
January 06, 2016 -
The Army has issued a request for information, asking cloud vendors to describe their capabilities in more than 30 separate areas that could help it move its applications from government data centers to modern commercial hosting environments.
January 06, 2016 -
The new DoD policy creates specialists to oversee IT, construction and medical services that work closely with department components.
January 05, 2016 -
Talent acquisition manager Mike Bruni will discuss job trends in the federal government, the kinds of workers that agencies need, and how to land a job in what is a competitive and challenging federal market. January 1, 2016
January 04, 2016 -
The Defense Department will have to fill Congress in on certain conditions surrounding multi-year contracts 30 days before they are awarded if a new proposed rule is adopted.
January 04, 2016 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, will give us his thoughts on the year in government procurement, and provide an update on the recent NASA SEWP training conference. January 5, 2016
January 04, 2016