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Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy (CPA) and Tom Sisti, vice president, and general counsel of the Coalition for Government Procurement discuss key developments in acquisition policy programs.
The Air Force tests airplanes before it buys them. Now it's testing software programming tools before buying them.
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) have agreed to work together to get more people to join the space industry. To find out the how and why, the Space Hour welcomed back Dan Dumbacher, who is the executive director of AIAA.
Features of two emerging governmentwide acquisition contracts demonstrate small but important innovation.
Figures from the Government Accountability Office show a 12% drop in the number of contracting protests in fiscal '22 relative to the year before, protests are down 40% Since 2018.
Exploring the rules for when government contracts are turned in late
No one particularly likes Defense Department's PPBE process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and very slow. But it's been encoded into the DNA of the Defense bureaucracy for more than 60 years. Over the next year, two separate groups of experts will try to figure out how to fix the system.
Jason Bakke, a director at Chaedrol, analyzes a recent GAO bid protest decision that could impact federal contractors on GSA schedule task orders.
Jim Ghiloni, a group manager at FedSIM, said GSA is in the initial stages of development of Research, Innovation and Outcomes (RIO) vehicle to help small businesses in the Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) program.
The National Defense Strategy and the DoD Strategic Management Plan emphasized rivalry with China and the need to protect space and cyber assets.
The General Services Administration is surging resources to fix the problems with the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) transition to the new validation service, but companies and lawmakers remain frustrated.
The Defense Department is working on new initiatives to reduce the long-term ownership costs of its major platforms. While those systems are expensive up-front, sustainment expenses make up about 70% of the average weapons system’s total lifecycle cost.
The Army says SBOMs are "going to happen" and is now asking for feedback on how to use them as part of the acquisition process.
Jason Workmaster, a member at Miller & Chevalier, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a discussion of then current legal and policy issues in government contracting.