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The acquisition regulations have a lot to say about when it's okay or not okay to specify brand names in solicitations. Two recent protest cases illustrate the point.
The Air Force revealed Tuesday that it has successfully flown the first airplane in its secretive Next Generation Air Dominance program. Perhaps more significantly, it's the first-ever fighter to be born almost entirely from digital engineering.
As technical director of DISA’s Infrastructure Directorate, Bryon Doyle said his job is to have an oversight of the organization’s architecture.
The focus may be about to turn from whether its supply chains are cyber secure to how reliant contractors are on foreign sources of supply.
Oracle and Mythics win a bid protest at the Library of Congress while AT&T comes out on top in its complaint against SSA. Both protests show the agencies made basic mistakes in evaluating bids on large-dollar solicitations.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found agencies saved $450 million over the last two years through the Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies (MEGABYTE) Act.
Only a little more than a third of the R&D expenses the Pentagon reimburses contractors for each year match up with the department's own modernization priorities, the Government Accountability Office says.
Federal contractors have sensed a certain sluggishness in the government's pace of awarding contracts during the pandemic. Now, a review of this phenomenon finds it's more pronounced in the intelligence community.
This August, GSA took two significant, interconnected steps towards increasing competition and access to the commercial market through its government-wide contract vehicles.
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Robin Bourne, a subject matter expert at the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide ranging discussion of schedules consolidation, contract duplication, category management and best in class contracts.
The Defense Department just took another step toward its goal of modernizing its acquisition system.
The pace of end-of-fiscal-year spending is off for a variety of reasons. Among them some unresolved policy questions related to national security and the federal supply chain.
Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, helped grow the association over the last two decades as agencies spent more on services than products.