Contracting
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Several sites, including Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and the FEDRamp cloud efforts, could be shut down in the next two months if the administration doesn\'t get more money under the E-government fund. In all, nine sites are on the list to be discontinued by July 30 if OMB doesn\'t find money to keep it going. Experts say OMB has several ways to keep the sites up, including pass-the-hat among agencies.
March 31, 2011 -
After 10 years of development and planning, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Defense Department\'s primary purchaser of almost everything besides weapons systems, is beginning to roll out a new enterprisewide system to automate the writing and management of the thousands of contract actions it processes each day.
March 30, 2011 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded one of the remaining big deals under the Networx telecommunications contract to Qwest.
March 30, 2011 -
With cybersecuirty professionals in short supply, the Army is reaching out to contractors for help.
March 30, 2011 -
Gwynne Kostin, director of Mobile, Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies of GSA, explains how employees can overcome some of the biggest challenges to mobile technologies.
March 29, 2011 -
The Government Accountability Office said in findings announced to Congress Tuesday that the Nunn-McCurdy amendment, designed to curtail cost growth in Defense programs, has succeeded in bringing an end to only one overly costly military program in the last 14 years.
March 29, 2011 -
Dave Patterson is the executive director of the National Defense Business Institute at the University of Tennessee, College of Business Administration. In his role, he helps students understand the appropriate method for implementing IT acquisition. March 29, 2011
March 29, 2011 -
Former Congressman Tom Davis (VA-R) joins host Roger Waldron for a discussion on the federal procurement system. Plus, Davis gives his take on the current budget debate. March 29, 2011
March 29, 2011 -
Both Raytheon and Northrop claim part of an Army Forces Command contract to support military operational and training needs.
March 29, 2011 -
Technologies developed for federal government may have been used to \"harm U.S. citizens on behalf of clients in the private sector.\"
March 29, 2011 -
Ashton Carter, the Defense Department\'s undersecretary for acquisitions, said the Pentagon can buy things quickly when it truly needs to. But when it comes to supporting overseas contingency operations, he said the country needs a dedicated, permanent \"fast lane\" that leapfrogs DoD\'s notoriously slow methods of buying goods and services.
March 29, 2011 -
If you want to do business with the federal government, you have to follow the rules. In theory, those rules are designed to make sure agencies, and in turn, taxpayers, get the best for their…
March 28, 2011 -
The idea is to trade one of your acquisition experts to another agency in exchange for one who knows more about a specific procurement need you have.
March 28, 2011 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Health and Human Services are hosting a workshop next month for labs that want to test the technology.
March 28, 2011 -
By Jason Miller Executive Editor Federal News Radio SAIC won its second contract under NASA’s multi-billion dollar Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P). The space agency announced today that it awarded SAIC a contract to…
March 28, 2011