Contracting
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Industry experts reacted with optimism and surprise to the decision by the General Services Administration to merge the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service.
June 12, 2017 -
New data shows agencies bought $120 million more worth of agile services in 2016 than in 2015 as part of the growing demand for these capabilities.
June 12, 2017 -
The Homeland Security Department wants to align its procurement and technology organizations to change the culture from buying to acquisition.
June 12, 2017 -
Benjamin Bergersen, the chief information officer of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, said the agency uses a combination of NIST documents, FedRAMP information and other data to understand and mitigate risk to their IT systems.
June 09, 2017 -
Lisa Deluca, senior manager of Public Sector Marketing at Veritas Technologies, and Market Connections founder and President Lisa Dezzutti join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, for a wide ranging discussion of content marketing. June 12, 2017
June 08, 2017 -
The Office of Management and Budget and new White House Office of American Innovation are working together on a 90-day sprint to develop a series of work streams on a variety of topics. Teams will recommend new ideas on ways to improve shared services mechanisms, the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy and federal hiring process.
June 07, 2017 -
An internal email obtained by Federal News Radio details the General Services Administration’s plan to move the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service to gain better efficiencies.
June 07, 2017 -
Heather Wilson, the newly-confirmed Secretary of the Air Force, wants to know whether her service’s acquisition professionals are actually using legislative provisions meant to help the Pentagon speed up and simplify the acquisition process
June 07, 2017 -
The former Army secretary says there's too much bickering in Congress to actually grow the military, but readiness holes need to be plugged first anyways.
June 06, 2017 -
Orion Hindawi, CEO and co-founder of Tanium, offers three guiding principles to reform the IT acquisition process.
June 06, 2017 -
James MacStravic, who's performing the duties of undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics plans to spend the next year driving DoD toward better performance in IT acquisition, including by reducing the number of departmentwide policies on the topic.
June 06, 2017 -
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin announced his intention to drop VistA and move the department to a commercial, off-the-shelf electronic health record.
June 05, 2017 -
The Homeland Security Department’s “motion to dismiss” outlined in honest detail what went wrong with its small business procurement known as Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland (FLASH).
June 05, 2017 -
The Office of Management and Budget issued implementation guidance for the cybersecurity executive order, giving agencies four deadlines over the next three months.
June 05, 2017 -
Bob Lohfeld of Lohfeld Consulting joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss his new book: "10 Steps to Creating High-Scoring Proposals". June 5, 2017
June 04, 2017