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GSA plans to centralize its application security program amid a broader push to ensure the government only relies on secure software.
Building trust is essential for businesses working with the federal government. The key is to start by making the effort and investments necessary to secure your cyber supply chain. Acting in good faith and providing transparency will demonstrate trustworthiness and create more business opportunities.
This new rule gives the Federal Acquisition Security Council the ability to tell contractors when to exclude or remove a product deemed risky.
Chaos in one chamber of Congress threatens passage of the National Defense Authorization bill and the chances for full year 2024 appropriations later on. There are some places contractors can focus on in order to help the government keep its normal operations going on.
Almost everything the government buys in the future could look like cybersecurity with some other product attached, if new proposed rules from the Federal Acquisition Regulation council take effect early next year. That's more a matter of when than if. Attorney Townsend Bourne, a partner at Sheppard Mullin, has read the proposed rules and joins Federal Drive host Tom Temin for this discussion.
Contractor employees will have enhanced whistleblower protections starting Nov. 6 after a years long effort to improve protections.
Fiscal 2024 started off like most fiscal years, with a Continuing Resolution. The government is still spending, and contractors have lots of opportunities. For the top opportunities in the year ahead, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Senior Data Analyst Paul Murphy.
The HR Line of Business and Quality Service Management Office completed this year-old effort earlier this year to update the HR business reference architecture.
The acquisition rules stem from recent cyber incidents like the SolarWinds breach.
The continuing resolution, which lasts until November 17, takes a six-and-a-half week bite out of fiscal 2024's calendar. In a sense, it resets the countdown to a government shutdown, especially if House Republicans succeed in ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which, in case you hadn't heard...happened. Contractors have been sorting out what it all means. For an update, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Stephanie Kostro, the Executive Vice president for Policy at the Professional Services Council.
Cyber companies were left holding the bag of bid and proposals costs to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars when the Air Force abruptly cancelled a huge multiple award contract.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative called "the Joint Requirement Council" hasn't gone very far in 10 years. The Council is supposed to discover capabilities multiple DHS components have in common, in order to avoid duplication and redundancy. But the Council doesn't meet very often and no one at the top seems to pay any attention, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
There's never a convenient time for a full or even a partial government shutdown, but we've reached the beginning of the end of another fiscal year with the likelihood of a shutdown rising. So how can contractors make sure they're ready for it and minimize the damage?
Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, said the new organizational approach will be made up of five divisions and focused on agency customers.