Acquisition

  • Faster, smaller, hipper, and even more efficient, teleworkers are morphing into mobile workers.

    November 01, 2010
  • Host Mark Amtower discusses the SmartPay program with David Shea, Director of the Office of Charge Card Management, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration. November 1, 2010 (Encore Presentation)

    November 01, 2010
  • Bob Tompkins, Partner, Patton Boggs joins host Larry Allen to discuss federal contracting opportunities for small businesses. November 2, 2010

    November 01, 2010
  • Anyone attending the recent ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Va., can tell you there was some great information on the future of cloud computing in government being announced and discussed at the event. This includes the news that the General Services Administration has issued a notice on FedBizOpps.gov for e-mail-as-a-service under the software-as-a-service platform. An industry [...]

    November 01, 2010
  • Indian authorities are concerned that militant Kashmiri separatists could launch attacks during President Obama\'s upcoming visit in order to draw the world\'s attention to the region. India is on alert to prevent attacks like the incident in which militants in Kashmir killed 35 people in 2000 during then-U.S. President Clinton\'s visit. A study conducted a few years ago showed that in the past 10 years, almost every time a US or UK senior official visited India or Pakistan, the Kashmiri militants tried to execute a sensational attack intended to raise awareness about their complaints; however it has always backfired by showing the militants to be terrorists and criminals.

    November 01, 2010
  • The GSA Office of Small Business Utilization has turned to a small business for help understanding small business needs. Federal News Radio speaks with Jiyoung Park, GSA Associate Administrator for Small Business Utilization.November 2, 2010

    October 29, 2010
  • HUD hired Compusearch under a $4 million deal to improve the procurement business processes and integrate data with other HUD systems.

    October 29, 2010
  • Roger Waldron discusses his agenda as new president of the Coalition for Government Procurement.

    October 29, 2010
  • Politico reports that contractors are preparing for bad news to business after the elections.

    October 29, 2010
  • South Korea and the United States have canceled the planned joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea scheduled for late October, according to a senior South Korean official. The decision was made to avoid irritating neighboring countries and to improve conditions for the Group of 20 Summit in Seoul on November 11th & 12th. The cancellation appears to be a conciliatory gesture to China to ensure its participation in the G 20 summit. This is the second major security issue in Asia in which the US appears to have deferred to China\'s sensibilities. 2010 has been as a pivotal year for reassessing the dominant power in Asia.

    October 29, 2010
  • A coalition of businesses, associations and citizen groups rate members of Congress on how they voted on bills that promote or hurt private sector companies and forces industry to compete with the government. But some experts say the business coalition is taking a too narrow view of what the government does.

    October 29, 2010
  • This is the first of several component contracts awarded under the I3P Program. NASA will use the contracts to procure services that provide agency-wide management, integration, and delivery of IT infrastructure services.

    October 29, 2010
  • There\'s a push to expand the use of tools designed to give federal Web managers a better idea of just who is using agency websites. The goal is to improve the Web experience for citizens.

    October 29, 2010
  • Bill Damare, Vice President of Government Markets for ESI International, joined Francis Rose for the Industry Chatter series to discuss how agencies can keep projects on track.

    October 28, 2010
  • Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller joined the DorobekINSIDER with details over the debate over the Business Coalition for Fair Competition\'s scorecard of federal contracting-related bills.

    October 28, 2010