Contracting
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The Government Accountability Office looked at 21 large cloud contracts across five cabinet level departments, and found only seven met all of the industry best practices for service level agreements. David Powner, GAO’s director for IT management issues, with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how GAO selected those best practices, and why agencies should be following them.
April 14, 2016 -
The two agencies released a joint statement on April 12 “reaffirming the importance of preserving competition in the defense industry.”
April 14, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office's sixth annual report on "fragmentation, overlap and duplication," put the spotlight once again on the DoD, Treasury Department the Department of Health and Human Services for the "significant opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement [that] exist in these three areas."
April 13, 2016 -
For too long, the budget and appropriations process hampered agencies and their ability to buy and modernize legacy IT systems, Federal CIO Tony Scott said. The Office of Management and Budget is submitting its proposal to Congress for a $3.1 billion IT modernization fund.
April 13, 2016 -
The Defense Department is missing out on billions of dollars in savings by not addressing some recommendations from the Government Accountability Office, a new report stated.
April 13, 2016 -
John Hill, the Bureau of Fiscal Service’s assistant commissioner for payments and chief disbursing officer, said agencies are getting ahead of the OMB deadline to move to electronic invoice processing by 2018 by moving to the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP).
April 13, 2016 -
The Navy's top energy official said he thinks the tide is turning in Congress when it comes to green energy and the military.
April 12, 2016 -
The General Services Administration is making moves to enhance its own knowledge of categories. Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how this could in turn benefit contractors.
April 11, 2016 -
Business groups are looking warily at yet another proposed new rule from the Obama administration. This one would require contractors to have mandatory paid sick leave. John McNerney, general counsel at the Mechanical Contrators Association of America, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the new rule could damage contracts with the government.
April 11, 2016 -
Gen. Mark Milley, the Army’s chief of staff, said his service will arrive at decisions within a matter of weeks on a new way forward for the Modular Handgun System, which has been in the works since 2011.
April 11, 2016 -
Russ Deyo, DHS’ undersecretary for management, is holding each of the department’s components accountable for specific plans, milestones and approaches that focus on root causes of employee dissatisfaction.
April 08, 2016 -
The Defense Department is trying to be more transparent in the way it prices contracts.
April 08, 2016 -
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wants to know how well agencies are following the implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act. He asked about three dozen agencies about what resources they've spent, what additional help is needed and any best practices that they've learned along the way.
April 08, 2016 -
What are the biggest cyber issues facing feds? Find out when cyber guru Bob Gourley joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. April 11, 2016
April 07, 2016 -
A memo obtained by Federal News Radio looks at what Pentagon leaders wanted and explicitly didn't want in reforming the Defense Department.
April 07, 2016