Contracting
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When the Office of Management and Budget released its hit list of 26 late and over-budget IT projects this week, not only federal agencies were affected. Trey Hodgkins, vice president for national security and federal procurement policy at TechAmerica, joins the Federal Drive with some answers.
August 26, 2010 -
The Pentagon\'s primary purchasing agency is steeling itself for the possible impact of large-scale changes to its budget in the weeks and months ahead as DoD prepares the 2012 budget. The Defense Logistics Agency used a recent conference to inform the vendor community about its plans to save money.
August 26, 2010 -
GSA Administrator Martha Johnson has filled one of her key leadership vacancies naming Alison Doone to be the agency’s chief financial officer. Doone currently is the IRS CFO. She fills the vacancy that was created…
August 25, 2010 -
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The Labor Department has posted a notice of potential rulemaking that could change hiring processes for contractors.
August 25, 2010 -
The Navy indicated Monday there would be a several-month delay in awarding a high-profile combat ship contract. We get details from The Hill\'s Roxana Tiron
August 25, 2010 -
Increasingly, federal workers are turning to a simple new Web application that makes short work of extremely long website addresses. The General Services Administration created the app at little cost by working with the Drupal programming community. The Library of Congress is one of the satisfied users who have found that the Web link shortener has helped drive traffic to one of its most popular items.
August 25, 2010 -
Agencies and vendors soon will be able to submit cloud-based products and services to be certified and accredited once and be available for use by all of government. Version 2 of the FedRAMP security controls should be ready in the next few weeks. Cloud working group still must address several questions about the approval process.
August 25, 2010 -
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The conference is taking place all this week at the Omni Shoreham Hotel here in D.C.
August 24, 2010 -
This week, host Jason Miller talks with Diane Herdt about GSA\'s initiative to use technology to improve the energy efficiencies of the buildings the government owns. Aug. 26, 2010
August 24, 2010 -
Five years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, doubts over SBA\'s efficiency, effectiveness emerge
August 24, 2010 -
This week, host Larry Allen talks with Steve Kempf of GSA\'s FAS. Aug. 24, 2010
August 24, 2010 -