Contracting

  • The General Services Administration offered advice to vendors trying to sell cloud services to the government. Dave McClure, GSA’s Associate Administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told Federal News Radio vendors are definitely the innovators in the cloud space. But, he warns, vendors need to do more than repackage “their old [...]

    March 10, 2011
  • March 15th, 2011 at 12:30 PM This century\'s \"Work\" models are based on Collaboration; but how do you define, manage, and more importantly, increase collaboration? When you think about increasing collaboration, leveraging the power of your connected teams, utilizing the collective brains of your trusted communities, and raising the quality of your collaborative decisions, you need the constant social networking with your trusted communities.

    March 10, 2011
  • The Defense Department\'s efficiencies initiative isn\'t just about internal DoD processes, the Army\'s acquisition chief said Wednesday. The service wants its vendors to help find ways to reduce costs and take on risk in the process, he said.

    March 10, 2011
  • The effort to understand cloud computing doesn’t stop at the IT shop in your agency. Managers all over the government are getting “cloud savvy” so they know what they need to know to acquire solutions…

    March 09, 2011
  • The Defense Department\'s reliance on security contractors keeps growing.

    March 08, 2011
  • UnitedHealthcare is protesting the Defense Department\'s decision to reverse course and award a multibillion-dollar insurance contract to competitor Humana.

    March 08, 2011
  • The Defense Department\'s top technology research official wants to build better bridges with academia and industry - both to conduct present-day studies, and to train the researchers DoD will need in the future.

    March 08, 2011
  • Stan Collender from Qorvis Communications discusses the ongoing budget negotiations and the impact on federal contractors.March 8, 2011

    March 08, 2011
  • All funding for an alternative F-35 engine would be killed under the measure drawn up Friday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

    March 07, 2011
  • Terry Halvorsen, who was named the Department of the Navy chief information officer in November, told attendees at a San Diego conference that his organization would seek to build more effective, efficient IT structures by leveraging the size and capabilities of both the Navy and Marine Corps. He also predicted the department\'s IT operation would have to meet its responsibilities with fewer people and fewer resources than it now has.

    March 04, 2011
  • Federal News Radio surveyed 10 agencies to find out how they are preparing for a shutdown, and how operating under a continuing resolution is affecting their operations.

    March 03, 2011
  • Reuter reports EADS is close to conceding its loss of the $35 billion Air Force KC-X tanker award to Boeing.

    March 03, 2011
  • Stephen Ryan, who leads the Government Strategies Practice Group at McDermott, Will and Emery, offers advice to vendors and contractors who may be worried that the government still does not have a budget for the rest of fiscal year 2011.

    March 02, 2011
  • The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration drone has completed its historic first flight. Now for carrier testing! We get details from Navy\'s Jaime Engdahl.

    March 02, 2011