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The 2023 defense budget the is part of the 2023 omnibus bill includes offsets to inflation costs and a pay raise for service members.
December 20, 2022 -
The new normal this time of year is for those in the federal contracting community to wait and hope Congress enacts funding for the next fiscal year. Plus, there are always those changes in the federal acquisition regulations. So who's making the lives of the government's industry partners easier and who deserves a lump of coal from Santa this year?
December 20, 2022 -
A new pilot paves the way for speeding up supply chain manufacturing for both Department of Defense and industry.
December 19, 2022 -
The departments of Justice and Homeland Security now have until May 31, 2026 to complete the transition from Networx for voice, video and data network services.
December 16, 2022 -
The Army is asking industry — and itself — whether it truly needs to own and maintain 350,000 high-end tactical radios. Buying simpler radios and leasing the more advanced ones are among the options on the table.
December 16, 2022 -
The award is expected to help kickstart a long-anticipated modernization effort for the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.
December 14, 2022 -
VA says it wants an evolving technology-as-a-service approach to manage its multibillion dollar logistics enterprise, and plans to select its own vendor to handle those responsibilities for the next decade.
December 14, 2022 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss transactional data reporting, eCommerce and the government-industry dialogue at the Coalition for Government Procurement’s recent fall training conference.
December 13, 2022 -
John Chierichella, founder of Chierichella Procurement Strategies, explains three strategies to help vendors plan for potential challenges to an award.
December 13, 2022 -
You might not be familiar with a company called DJI. It's a large, Chinese drone manufacturer. The Army and Interior Department have banned DJI products, because the company — which is closely associated with the Chinese Communist Party — is a security threat.
December 09, 2022 -
The Pentagon expects to get the ordering process for new JWCC services off the ground quickly now that awards have been issued to four companies, but each task order could take longer to process than DoD originally anticipated.
December 09, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: IBM's shopping spree lands a Reston firm, as it gobbles up its 25th company since 2020. DoD's chief financial officer wants an actual budget to pass, not a CR. And the Veterans Affairs Department continues to struggle to comply with a litany of laws.
December 08, 2022 -
Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google and Oracle won spots on DoD’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) vehicle.
December 07, 2022 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been banging this particular drum for years now. Not only are agencies allowed to engage in discussions with industry before they craft procurements, doing so is usually a good thing. Now that principle is enshrined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation via a new rule issued just last week.
December 06, 2022 -
The Government Accountability Office dismissed 117 protests after NITAAC said it reassess the self-scoring cut-off line and relook at offers.
December 01, 2022