Contracting
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Margaret Boatner, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said the service will hire as many as 10 experts to help acquisition offices and vendors improve their management of intellectual property.
January 17, 2023 -
The Army is planning a significant multiple-award ID/IQ to tie the communication advancements it's achieved at the tactical edge into a more manageable structuring of its tools and the data they produce.
January 17, 2023 -
Chad Clifford, the executive director of the Grants QSMO at the Department of Health and Human Services, said their goal is to improve the customer’s experience by giving them the tools to help drive greater efficiencies for the agency, users and recipients.
January 16, 2023 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss how federal procurement is being impacted by a cavalcade of current and proposed contract compliance requirements.
January 13, 2023 -
Percipient.AI alleges NGA and prime contractor CACI are ignoring a law requiring agencies to buy commercially available products.
January 13, 2023 -
Skyway Acquisitions CEO Kevin Jans joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss RFP, CPARS and other issues affecting government contracting officers.
January 12, 2023 -
Lauren Knausenberger, the Air Force’s chief information officer, said despite protest delays, the service is taking steps to prepare for the future enterprise IT-as-a-service approach.
January 10, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management is getting up to speed with one of its newest duties — standing up a governmentwide marketplace for human resources IT solutions.
January 06, 2023 -
Erv Koehler, the assistant commissioner of the Office of General Supplies and Services in the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said upgrades to the pricing tool, the catalog and a pilot around creating a market basket will help improve the schedules program.
January 06, 2023 -
Contractors start the new calendar year with customers funded for the fiscal year. But some new rules and procedures will take some attention.
January 04, 2023 -
AFWERX relaunched itself as a 3.0 version with plans to expand its mission.
December 29, 2022 -
Current and former federal technology experts offer their take on why House lawmakers will be more active with oversight and what are some of the emerging hot topics over the next 12 months.
December 29, 2022 -
With a deadline for losing bidders to appeal having come and gone, the Defense Department now has a clear legal pathway to implement the long-planned multibillion dollar overhaul of the military's household goods moving system.
December 29, 2022 -
Current and former federal technology executives say software supply chain security emerged as one of the biggest challenges last year given both the attention by the White House and ongoing cyber concerns.
December 28, 2022 -
A new report by George Mason University's Center for Government Contracting chronicles the ways in which the Defense budgeting process has become increasingly inflexible over the last seven decades, how it's shackled technological innovation in DoD, and what to do about it.
December 21, 2022