Kevin Bogardus, a reporter with The Hill newspaper, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the latest in the National Labor Relations Board\'s lawsuit against aerospace company Boeing surrounding unionization.
On today\'s Federal Drive: A second round of buyouts at the Education Department, the Pentagon begins investigating the helicopter crash in Afghanistan and industry news from Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen and Boeing.
The top four civilian agencies can do a better job in the planning stages for service contracts, according to a new Government Accountability Office.
The space agency hired The Portal Group Consulting under the web enterprise services and technology contract. It could be worth $82 million over five years.
Thom Mason, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, explained how the lab works and how everyone relates to headquarters in D.C.
Author and consultant James \"Jimmy\" Baker joins host Mark Amtower to talk about what you can do to get government contract for your company. August 8. 2011
On Today\'s Federal Drive: The effect of the S&P downgrade on federal agencies, GSA rethinks new pay-for-parking rule and the Army cuts civilian personnel.
Mark Amtower said most of the companies on STARS 2 won\'t do much business with the government.
Bill Welch chairs the government contracts practice group at General Counsel PC. He has advice for companies that are thinking about launching protests.
IBM has protested the Veterans Affairs Department\'s multi-billion dollar information technology contract, under the Transformation 21 Total Technology (T4) program.
Cindy Troutman is the President of CGH Technologies.
Rory Schultz, the chief technology officer of the Food and Nutrition Service at the Agriculture Department and government chair of the ACT-IAC joined the Federal Drive to discuss how the group\'s Voyagers program works, which connects IT workers in government and industry.
Rick Holgate, ATF\'s chief information officer, said a new IT infrastructure contract could be worth $40 million a year. The goal is to make the agency\'s network more agile to deliver managed services. August 4, 2011
Marty Bollinger, senior vice president and director of aerospace and defense practice at Booz & Co. discusses the prospects for the Defense Department budget, the impact of the debt ceiling on industry and the implications U.S. debt will have on policy.
On today\'s Federal Drive, an update on the FAA shutdown, the White House names a new federal chief information officer to replace Vivek Kundra and the General Services Administration adds nearly 600 small IT firms to the STARS II contract.