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Your mother always told you it was good to share. For federal agencies, shared services are a route to greater efficiency, less wasted effort and maybe even better performance. So why aren't more agencies doing it? Now the Partnership for Public Service, teaming with Deloitte, has come up with a list of recommendations for agencies to get into shared services for human resources and acquisition. Mallory Barg Bulman, research director at the Partnership, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more detail.
Using a particular BPA might help the governmentwide picture, but it won't necessarily help individual agencies manage their own expenses.
On this edition of Columbia Technology Partners Ready to Prime, Allen Scott discusses one of the most important parts of government contracting, the art of teaming with Tom Skypek, co-founder of GovBizConnect.
Lockheed Martin is spinning off its Information Systems & Global Solutions unit and merging it with engineering company Leidos in order to double down on its defense and aerospace holdings.
If you're a contractor, dealing with contracting officers is always something of a dance. Sometimes you lead, but mostly you need to follow their cues. For this week's Doing Business segment on Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Larry Allen, principal of Allen Federal Business Partners, has three things he thinks contractors need to know now.
A draft policy under development by OMB would require agencies to create an inventory of, and buy mobile devices and services only from, GSA's governmentwide contract in order to get better control over $1.2 billion in annual spend.
GSA awarded six vendors a spot on a blanket purchase agreement to provide integration and implementation services for Salesforce tools.
The Marine Corps is planning to transition to Windows 10 by the 2017 deadline, but it is still figuring out how.
The budget request comes as the General Services Administration announces Phase II for the FBI headquarters project.
The interest by federal agencies in all things Silicon Valley continues to crescendo. But are the Homeland Security and the Defense departments are overlooking their own back yard? Jonathan Aberman, managing director and chairman of Amplifier Ventures, thinks so. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his take.
Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said DoD must accept more risk in its funding of new technologies. Topics of interest include big data and energy production and storage.
During a confirmation hearing Eric Fanning said the Army needs a Rapid Capabilities Office and is lagging in readiness.
The Navy launched its year-long green initiative that will use alternative fuels and procurement practices to make the service more fuel efficient.
Richard Lieberman, a consultant and retired attorney, offers insights into when a contractor should sue its government customer.