Contracting
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Kimberly Hancher, partner at Deep Water Point, and Virtual Marketing LLC President Lou Anne Brossman join host Mark Amtower to discuss the upcoming GAIN 2016 conference in Leesburg Virginia. August 29, 2016
August 28, 2016 -
The Defense Department talks a big game on innovation, but that doesn't mean it's going to take big risks with investments.
August 26, 2016 -
The Obama administration is backing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order for evening the playing field among government contractors, but some federal contracting experts say the policy will do more harm than good.
August 26, 2016 -
The Obama Administration has issued long-awaited final rules designed to keep companies who routinely violate labor laws from getting federal contracts. Vendors will have to report any violations of 14 different labor laws, and eventually state laws too, directly to the Labor Department. Eric Crusius, attorney at Miles & Stockbridge, joins Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the rules.
August 25, 2016 -
The Defense Department continues to be concerned about counterfeit parts making their way into weapons systems and virtually everything else it buys. The worries are that fake parts could cause mission critical systems to fail unexpectedly.
August 25, 2016 -
Beth Angerman, the executive director of the Unified Shared Services Management (USSM) Office, said the modernization and migration management (M3) framework, a new six-step playbook and a shared services catalog are putting the pieces in place to help agencies succeed in moving back-office systems to shared services.
August 24, 2016 -
New estimates from Government Accountability Office say the Defense Department has routinely dipped into its overseas contingency operations account to fund "enduring" requirements since 2009, but there's no way to tell which account ultimately funded any particular expense, making it very difficult for Congress to oversee DoD's operations and maintenance accounts. Andrew Von Ah, GAO's acting director for Defense Capabilities and Management, talked with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the O&M accounting problem.
August 24, 2016 -
After a six year decline in spending, budgets have begun to bounce back in 2016, and contract spending is expected to follow that upturn shortly after as the trend continues into 2017.
August 24, 2016 -
SAP Senior Director & Chief Legislative Counsel Tom Sisti joins host Roger Waldron to discuss category management, transactional data reporting and the current state of commerical item contracting. August 23, 2016
August 23, 2016 -
Final guidance for the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order includes a phase-in schedule for contractors, as well as an opportunity for pre-assessment from the Labor Department.
August 23, 2016 -
Michael Fischetti, executive director of NCMA, makes the case that agencies and industry are equally suffering because of changes to the federal market.
August 23, 2016 -
Immature technologies can sink an otherwise carefully planned program. That's why the Government Accountability Office is preparing a guide to help program and acquisition people evaluate the maturity of technology before they get stuck with it. Dr. Tim Persons, chief scientist at GAO, talked about the new guide on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 23, 2016 -
Michael Roark, DoD's assistant inspector general for contract management and payments, joined Pentagon Solutions to offer his insight on using vendor past performance in awarding federal contracts.
August 22, 2016 -
NASA’s Chief Information Officer Renee Wynn decided to let the authority to operate for its desktops, laptops and end user systems expire after ongoing cybersecurity problems with its contractor.
August 22, 2016 -
The General Services Administration held a reverse auction to set up contracts for five agencies to buy more than 45,000 laptops, desktops as part of a centralized procurement.
August 22, 2016