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Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, wondered if after the upcoming summer buying season, shutdowns will be more common.
May 27, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Army officials have given an update of how many female soldiers are now in combat brigades, and plans to place more in the future.
May 27, 2019 -
The company previously indicated an unwillingness to issue the refunds, saying that doing so could amount to an admission of wrongdoing.
May 27, 2019 -
OMB’s draft cloud smart strategy is one of several ongoing efforts across the government to help agencies deliver services and modernize systems more quickly.
May 24, 2019 -
The General Services Administration will host a Federal Acquisition Service Training (FAST) Conference on April 14-16, 2020, in Atlanta.
May 24, 2019 -
HHS named Jose Arrieta, the deputy assistant secretary and senior procurement executive, to be its new chief information officer, making him one of only a few technology executives, who once was a contracting officer.
May 24, 2019 -
Patricia Davis-Muffett, director of Public Sector marketing for Amazon Web Services joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion of GovCon marketing. She also gives a preview of the upcoming AWS Public Sector Summit that begins on June 10th.
May 23, 2019 -
The Defense Department awarded a $75 million other transaction agreement to Perspecta, the contractor it hired a year ago to construct a separate piece of the National Background Investigation System.
May 22, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Transportation Security Administration administrator David Pekoske promises a series of changes to improve TSA's human capital practices.
May 21, 2019 -
House appropriators want to prevent the Pentagon from spending money to information to the JEDI Cloud contract until it meets several conditions.
May 21, 2019 -
Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss eCommerce, supply chain security and potential acquisition related provisions under consideration for the National Defense Authorization Act.
May 20, 2019 -
DISA releases a request for information to industry for a government owned, contractor operated approach to back-office IT services and network consolidation and optimization.
May 20, 2019 -
OMB submitted six legislative proposals to establish an Acquisition Modernization Test Board, and to bring defense and civilian agencies under the same rules.
May 20, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Merit Systems Protection Board finds between 1999 and 2016, only about 7 for ever 1000 new supervisors faced consequences for failing their probationary period.
May 20, 2019 -
After a year and a half of development, the Department of Health and Human Services is ready to move its Buy Smarter Initiative into the production phase.
May 17, 2019