Contracting
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Does the new rule satisfy contractors who felt beset by DoD buyers' reliance on LPTA? David Berteau gave his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 11, 2019 -
A rare, joint memo from three military service secretaries directs acquisition officials to build open architectures into all new programs.
February 11, 2019 -
One of the enduring questions of the ages, at least in government contracting, is what counts as a small business and what happens when it grows bigger during the course of a contract?
February 07, 2019 -
The Air Force wants program managers to be able to spot good code in software.
February 07, 2019 -
Former federal IT executives say the 1996 law is not the problem, but it’s the processes that grew up around the Clinger-Cohen Act are making IT acquisition too difficult.
February 05, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general found that when it comes to detention facilities contractors, Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn't adequately hold them accountable for written performance standards.
February 05, 2019 -
After years of preparing companies for stricter cybersecurity requirements, DoD is finally cracking down.
February 04, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, an internal email to staff at the National Park Service explained the effect the partial government shutdown had on the agency.
February 04, 2019 -
So can federal contractors get back any of what they lost in the shutdown? Consultant Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners has been watching this closely.
February 04, 2019 -
Five years after it broke open, the Navy's contract scandal, "Fat Leonard," is still producing indictments and prison sentences. For some perspective, Bruno Wengrowski joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 04, 2019 -
Agencies impacted and not impacted by the partial government shutdown released up to eight times more RFPs, RFIs and awards on FedBizOpps.gov last week as compared to the same weeks in previous years.
February 04, 2019 -
Federal contractors used a variety of strategies to weather the shutdown's impact on their cash flow, and expect a return to normalcy to take a long time.
February 01, 2019 -
Raghav Vajjhala, the chief information officer of the FTC, said a new blanket purchase agreement with four vendors will help the agency take a low risk approach to IT modernization.
February 01, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Defense Department shows there was a slight increase in the amount of sexual assaults reported at military academies.
February 01, 2019 -
Peter Navarro, the assistant to the President and director of Trade and Industrial Policy at the White House, said 14 agencies spent more than $45 billion on infrastructure projects in 2016 without any Buy American requirements.
January 31, 2019