Contracting
-
The government has made progress in the last 15 years, but it's nowhere near a fully digital model.
October 26, 2016 -
Defense test and evaluation gets some new suggestions from the Defense Business Board.
October 25, 2016 -
The Pentagon says its new Silicon Valley-based technology outreach office is seeing some early successes in rapid acquisition. It handled its first dozen procurements in an average time of 60 days. But most of the money it spent went to established companies, not garage-style startups.
October 25, 2016 -
Neil Hartley, U.S. head of operations for Morphis, offers best practices for agencies when deciding how best to update old technology applications and systems.
October 25, 2016 -
The General Services Administration’s inspector general released a new report highlighting a host of problems for the digital services office, including losing tens of millions of dollars a year and hiring more people than it had work for.
October 24, 2016 -
Bill Gormley, president of The Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron for a quarterly update on current procurement policy and program trends. October 18, 2016
October 24, 2016 -
Interior CIO Sylvia Burns shined a brighter light on the agency’s implementation of DHS’ continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program in the wake of auditors saying the effort was "immature."
October 24, 2016 -
The General Services Administration highlighted its progress since April around a series of initiatives designed to make schedule contracting more streamlined and efficient.
October 24, 2016 -
The Pentagon last week made contract awards in its promised expansion of federal government’s first-ever bug bounty — the “Hack the Pentagon” challenge which would up finding and closing 138 separate cybersecurity vulnerabilities in DoD’s public-facing websites earlier this year.
October 24, 2016 -
Professional Services Council Executive Vice President and Counsel Alan Chvotkin joins host Mark Amtower to discuss category management, the latest continuing resolution, and other issues affecting professional services contractors. October 24, 2016
October 23, 2016 -
The federal government’s cybersecurity policy has reached a crossroads, and the upcoming presidential transition is an opportunity to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and decide how to move forward.
October 21, 2016 -
FedRAMP is boasting increased authorizations and return business, and the new dashboard is making it easier for feds to use the program.
October 20, 2016 -
The Pentagon’s startup-style outfit for reaching out to innovative companies may have cracked the code for speeding up DoD’s famously ponderous acquisition system.
October 17, 2016 -
The General Services Administration’s 18F organization is reviewing bids of a solicitation to provide identity proofing and fraud detection for its Login.gov portal. But RFQ already is raising some concerns about the initiative.
October 17, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s Dave Mader said the demand for shared services is driving the government back to consider private sector providers after several years of focusing on the government only.
October 17, 2016