Contracting
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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 -
In today's Federal Newscast, after the Veterans Affairs Department second attempt at firing the director of its DC facility, VA's case against Brian Hawkins is reportedly falling apart.
May 17, 2019 -
Just about everybody should be unhappy when they learn that a lot of U.S. government contractors who take money from agencies who go brain dead April 15.
May 17, 2019 -
Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss options contractors have to make changes to bids after a procurement deadline.
May 16, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Council 216 of the American Federation of Government Employees is urging the EEOC to push for more staff.
May 16, 2019 -
The Pentagon has launched a new data gathering effort to try to detect sole-source vendors who are making excess profits by hiding their cost data from contracting officers.
May 16, 2019