Contracting

  • The General Services Administration\'s employee relocation service supports about 85 percent of all relocating federal employees. Program analyst Julie Blanford explains why it\'s a big challenge for agencies to relocate employees and how her department can help.November 23, 2010

    November 19, 2010
  • Innovation is a mindset, and that mindset must be prepared to make mistakes and fail. Information Experts\' Marissa Levin told host Francis Rose how organizations can create an environment to foster new ideas.

    November 19, 2010
  • GSA certified that GPO complies with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201, which sets requirements to ensure that identification cards are secure and resistant to fraud. GSA\'s David Temoshok explains the process for us.

    November 19, 2010
  • SBA has two new programs for women vets, guard, reservists and families. We get details from SBA\'s William Elmore.

    November 19, 2010
  • Dan Gordon of OFPP discusses the return of the Frontline Forum meetings.

    November 18, 2010
  • A UN report released on Friday found that North Korea is supplying banned nuclear and ballistic missile equipment to Iran, Syria and Myanmar using surreptitious means to avoid international sanctions. A UN committee called for heightened vigilance to stop the nuclear trade and for investigation into the sophisticated means used by North Korea to avoid detection. Weapons, missiles and dated nuclear technology are the top three hard currency earners for North Korea. The North is desperate due to dire economic conditions and has no alternative but to try to export the only items it makes that have a market.

    November 18, 2010
  • The AFFIRM panel discusses how to stay innovative.

    November 18, 2010
  • A 3 percent withholding requirement for contractors was passed in 2005 and is set to take effect Jan. 1 2012, and government agencies are already preparing for its implementation. We learn more from Phil Bond with TechAmerica.

    November 18, 2010
  • County works to bring veteran-owned companies into the federal contracting fold. Details from Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce\'s Barbara Ashe.

    November 18, 2010
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill\'s legislation would take aim at privileges for Alaska native corporations.

    November 17, 2010
  • National Defense University\'s iCollege professor Andy Gravatt explains the lessons on his course syllabus, from communication to risk management.

    November 17, 2010
  • Ashton Carter, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, described the future state of military contracting. He said vendors should look at several current examples including the Littoral Combat Ship and the replacement for the Ohio Class Submarine.

    November 17, 2010
  • To save money in contracting, DoD will have to spend money to build the acquisition workforce, former DoD Comptroller Dov Zakheim said.

    November 16, 2010
  • Apps.gov, the GSA’s cloud-based storefront, will soon offer storage, virtualization and Web hosting applications to government agencies. Vendors with an infrastructure-as-a-service contract will provide their services on the website. Apps.gov will alleviate the federal IT strain on storage, computing power and website hosting. The new cloud infrastructure will also eliminate the need for agencies to [...]

    November 16, 2010