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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on the best way to dispose of nearly 90,000 vacant or underutilized federal properties. While some lawmakers see property sales as a way to generate cash, it\'s not clear how much the properties are actually worth.
July 28, 2011 -
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A panel of industry representatives has laid out a roadmap for revising the practices agencies use to purchase cloud computing services. The group also recommends new transparency efforts aimed at getting customers to trust cloud computing. The report aims to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing.
July 26, 2011 -
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Host Roger Waldron is joined by Stan Collender, partner with Qorvis Communications and Jason Workmaster, partner with the McKenna, Long, and Aldridge law firm. They will talk about how contractors would be affected if the debt ceiling isn\'t raised. July 26, 2011
July 26, 2011 -
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Tom Hawley, deputy undersecretary of the Army, and Heidi Shyu, acting assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, discuss the Army\'s new acquisition in a press conference.
July 26, 2011 -
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Witnesses at a Senate field hearing in Laurel, Md. said the government\'s tight budget is tough on the small businesses that are bidding for cybersecurity contracts. Federal agency representatives, on the other hand, say they\'re reaching out to small businesses.
July 25, 2011 -
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Host Mark Amtower will talk debt crisis, cloud computing and other issues with Federal News Radio\'s Francis Rose. July 25, 2011(Encore presentation August 15, 2011)
July 25, 2011 -
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New environmental standards for IT products from GSA may end up hurting specialty buyers, according to Larry Allen, founder of Allen Federal Business Partners and former president of the Coalition for Government Procurement.
July 25, 2011 -
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GSA employees will no longer be able to park for free in federal buildings around the National Capital Region.
July 25, 2011 -
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While the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 required agencies to include telework policies in their continuity of operation plans, GAO found agencies lack a definition of what \"inclusion\" means.
July 24, 2011 -
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An Army-commissioned study finds that since 1996, the service has spent more than a billion dollars per year on defense systems that wound up being cancelled. Army leaders say they recognize the problem, and have already begun moving aggressively toward reform.
July 22, 2011 -
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David Maurer, the director of homeland security and justice issues at GAO told Federal News Radio, the latest Government Accountability Office report on DHS acquisition contains three key areas for improvement, including better defined requirements and more testing and evaluation of technologies.
July 21, 2011 -
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Security gaps still need to be patched for mobile and cloud computing to take off, according to GSA\'s David McClure.
July 21, 2011 -
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Randall Jackson, vice president of Federal Solutions at software firm MarkLogic, joined Industry Chatter with Francis Rose to discuss the shifting nature of Big Data and how agencies are managing it.
July 21, 2011 -
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Learn more about how the new set-aside rule for women owned businesses is working from Penny Pompei, national executive director of Women Construction Owners and Executives.
July 21, 2011
