Contracting
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The Army plans a critical design review process next April, after which it will begin buying significant quantities of gear to build its integrated tactical network.
November 26, 2019 -
Congress is still unable to create long term spending packages. Meanwhile there's some new rules for them to follow in order to do business with the government.
November 26, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, acquisition authorities have made a proposed rule final, to keep phony parts out of systems the government buys.
November 25, 2019 -
Beth Angerman, the principal deputy associate administrator in GSA’s Office of Governmentwide Policy, resigned after almost 15 years in government, including the last six heading up the governmentwide shared services initiative.
November 25, 2019 -
Amazon filed its promised bid protest lawsuit at the Court of Federal Claims on Friday. The complaint is still under seal, but accompanying documents indicate it will use video evidence suggesting improper influence on the JEDI contract by President Trump.
November 25, 2019 -
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) team at Booz Allen Hamilton joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide ranging discussion of how the Department of Defense is using AI and machine learning to support its mission.
November 22, 2019 -
Judith Zawatsky, the assistant commissioner in the Office of Systems Management in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said she will work with GSA CIO David Shive on a post-mortem to figure out what went wrong with the FBO.gov to beta.sam.gov move.
November 21, 2019 -
GSA’s William Zielinski and Lawrence Hale joined CyberChat to discuss the acquisition process and vehicles for the cybersecurity supply chain.
November 19, 2019 -
Last week Norm Augustine joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss just-completed work with the National Academy of Sciences, examining the future of the interstate highway system.
November 19, 2019 -
The National Reconnaissance Office has been acquiring a series of commercial imagery study contracts, with the latest a contract for hyperspectral imaging.
November 19, 2019 -
The Labor Department is moving from 13 different HR offices, 26 different IT application organizations, four different procurement organizations and numerous personnel security offices down to one of each as part of its internal consolidation.
November 18, 2019 -
Rick Suarez, senior vice president of US Market Access at AstraZeneca, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss how the healthcare market is being impacted by the growing trend towards value-based arrangements and payments for pharma contracts.
November 17, 2019 -
GSA and the Energy Department are trying to come up with approaches to bring down the ever-growing risk of cyber attacks to technology systems.
November 15, 2019 -
What are the biggest problems facing small contractors and what steps can they take to increase their chances of winning government contracts? Find out when Carroll Bernard of Waypoint America and Govology joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center.
November 15, 2019 -
None of the new technology NASA is working on to get it to Mars will matter if the agency doesn't have consistency in funding and vision over the next several years.
November 14, 2019