Acquisition
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The industry association, the Coalition for Government Procurement, gave Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) its highest award for using common sense in dealing with federal procurement.
March 21, 2012 -
A panel of lawmakers concluded that it was not easy doing business with the Defense Department, especially for small and medium sized business.
March 21, 2012 -
Army would agree to buy energy from private plants on Army land but cut the plants off from the electric grid in the event of an emergency. The final solicitation could be out by this spring.
March 21, 2012 -
Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Steve Kempf will talk about where the government-wide contracting market place is headed. March 20, 2012(Encore presentation April 24, 2012)
March 20, 2012 -
The House unanimously voted Tuesday to create a new process for disposing of the federal government's 14,000 excess properties, beginning with a pilot program to sell off more than a dozen of the most profitable facilities. Under the law, agencies would be able to keep a portion of the proceeds from the sale of real property. The bill would also create a comprehensive database compiling a list of all of the federal government's real property.
March 20, 2012 -
Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for national security and procurement policy at TechAmerica, said the Senate bill will hurt the ability to attract people to government business.
March 20, 2012 -
Representatives from three agencies spoke with The Federal Drive with Tom Temin about newly released guidelines for federal agencies that are adopting cloud computing.
March 20, 2012 -
The government\'s training portal has nearly 10,000 users. The HR University now offers college-accredited classes and in-person \"flash mentoring\" events. The Office of Personnel Management and the Chief Human Capital Officers Council launched the portal last year as a way to save agencies money on professional development training.
March 20, 2012 -
The Army is in the middle of a major rethink of mobile devices, including how it secures them, how it buys them and ultimately, how it uses them. The push comes amid a mandate to find $1.5 billion in IT savings across the Army.
March 20, 2012 -
Host Mark Amtower will discuss a wide ranging of contracting issues with Harold Good, director of Purchasing for Frederick County Maryland. March 19, 2012
March 19, 2012 -
The Defense Department has awarded United Health Military and Veteran Services a six-year contract to operate TRICARE in the Western U.S., including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado and a handlful of other states.
March 19, 2012 -
The administration released a set of high-level concepts from listening sessions conducted in 2011 and is asking for input from the agencies, contractors and the public. Interested parties can comment on 14 suggestions to improve how people with disabilities access government information.
March 19, 2012 -
Warren Linscott, vice president at Deltek, tells The Federal Drive with Tom Temin what areas of growth are out there for federal contractors.
March 19, 2012 -
The service released a second draft solicitation for the Next Generation Enterprise Network. Industry has until March 30 to comment.
March 16, 2012 -
In an interview with In Depth with Francis Rose, Fred Downey, vice president of national security at the Aerospace Industries Association, breaks down what the defense industry is saying about DoD\'s strategy.
March 16, 2012