Defense Industry
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Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty spoke with Jared Serbu about an analysis the DoD did on the supply base of the agency's more than 1,000 Tier One vendors.
August 27, 2020 -
The drones will be available for purchase through GSA in September.
August 20, 2020 -
The interim rule implementing Section 889 of the 2019 NDAA takes effect Aug. 13 requiring agencies to add a provision to all new task orders and solicitation prohibiting vendors from using certain Chinese telecommunications products.
August 13, 2020 -
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), along with Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), asked Senate leadership to include a provision in the next stimulus bill to extend Section 3610 provisions that provide paid leave, including sick leave, to employees and subcontractors until Dec. 31, 2021.
August 04, 2020 -
Government is closer to meeting its security clearance processing goals for the first time in years, due, in large part, to the steady rise in continuous evaluation enrollment.
July 16, 2020 -
In both chambers of Congress, next year's NDAA tells DoD it's time to devote more energy toward understanding not just the cost of buying weapons, but the long-term cost of owning them.
June 29, 2020 -
The department created the data management position within the office of the Chief Management Officer in 2018. But as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress moved the CDO job to the CIO’s office.
June 22, 2020 -
GAO dismissed Perspecta’s second protest of the enterprise email and cloud collaboration contract called DEOS awarded to GDIT in August after GSA said it would take corrective action.
June 10, 2020 -
The Pentagon says it's not resisting oversight but also did not say when officials will appear on the Hill.
June 08, 2020 -
The CMMC Accreditation Body will release more details on or about June 1 about how companies can become certified three-party assessment organizations and individuals can be assessors.
May 29, 2020 -
Some of the Army’s biggest programs may not stay on schedule as expected delays to new weapons systems come to fruition due to coronavirus. The service’s top acquisition official says most major weapons systems remain…
May 27, 2020 -
DoD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is in a hurry to move its software development to an enterprise cloud platform. The Air Force's Cloud One is the next-best option for now.
May 26, 2020 -
The pandemic has shown federal and industry leaders in the intelligence community: the nature of classified work may be ripe for change.
May 21, 2020 -
Coronavirus pushed Air Force to move industry engagements online. Officials wish it had been sooner.The Air Force's top acquisition official says his service has seen so much success with virtual events that it's never going back to in-person-only industry engagements.
May 15, 2020 -
For a roundup and the effects it's all having, the Executive Vice President and Counsel at the professional services counsel, Alan Chvotkin spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 05, 2020
