Contracting

  • Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal to modernize the Navy\'s shipboard computing system. The Navy will decide early next year if it will go with Lockheed\'s designs or proposals from competitor Northrop Grumman.

    September 14, 2011
  • Ashton Carter, the nominee to be the new deputy Defense secretary, said DoD will need to consider civilian employee furloughs, the abandonment of major weapons systems and a severe curtailing of military training if the sequestration envisioned by Congress as a budget-cutting forcing function takes effect.

    September 14, 2011
  • Sean Greene, associate administrator for investment at the Small Business Administration, joined the Federal Drive to discuss a recent series of roundtables that aimed to find new ways to trim regulations.

    September 14, 2011
  • Host Roger Waldron will talk about the procurement landscape with Al Burman, president of Jefferson Solutions and chairman of the Procurement Board Roundtable. September 13, 2011

    September 13, 2011
  • For a long time your agency has been limiting its horizons for saving money. Some good, old-fashioned money management philosophies could go a long way toward helping your agency cut costs.

    September 13, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive: some agencies have netted extra cash from governmentwide acquisition contracts and furloughed FAA workers won\'t receive back pay under the latest House FAA funding reauthorization.

    September 13, 2011
  • GAO found four of six governmentwide acquisition contracts ended up with \'excess revenue\' for the agency in each of the last four years. GSA\'s schedules programs earned an extra $62 million a year, while Interior and NASA earned an extra $4.7 million and $1.7 million annually, respectively.

    September 12, 2011
  • Angela Styles, Partner at the law firm Crowell & Moring, and Al Burman, former OFPP Administrator, discuss the OFPP definitions published today in the Federal Register.

    September 12, 2011
  • In a request for comments issued today, the agency wants industry to answer 10 questions across four broadly themed areas.

    September 12, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive: The House attempts to stave off a shutdown by passing a stopgap bill early and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issues final guidance on \"inherently governmental\" positions.

    September 12, 2011
  • Jim Seymour, director of Programs and Special Events for the Partnership for Public Service, joins host Derrick Dortch to talk about this year\'s SAMMIES award winners. September 9, 2011

    September 09, 2011
  • The Office of Federal Procurement Policy makes eight changes to how agencies decide what work must be done by federal employees.

    September 09, 2011
  • The new policy letter will lay out eight changes to how agencies previously defined and managed inherently governmental work. Among the changes are a new list of jobs that must be done by federal employees and a checklist to determine which jobs are inherently government and which are closely associated or critical functions.

    September 09, 2011
  • Before a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama proposed a combination of new spending measures and tax breaks — to the tune of some $447 billion — to help put more Americans to work.

    September 09, 2011