Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Mark Faulkner, new president of the Institute for Defense and Business, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more discussion.
The Defense Department has been steadily increasing the number of contracting dollars it directs to small business.
The Air Force's Office of Financial Management and Comptroller is making lots of moves to improve its IT, including developing a new acquisition strategy, hiring a CDO, implementing automation and addressing ICAM issues.
Victims of sexual assault in the military now have more options to protect themselves from minor infractions if they decide to report a crime to their command.
The Defense Information Systems Agency annual forecast to industry day highlighted several upcoming contract opportunities, but more importantly laid out the path the agency is heading for the next year.
Who should be exempted by their employers from a vaccine mandate? In the case of active duty military members, it's not so clear.
The CDO office is less than a year old, but DISA officials want to put data at the center of everything the agency does going forward.
The Biden administration in recent days has offered up more details on how agencies might handle religious exception requests from federal employees. Contractors should make a "good faith" effort to comply with the federal vaccine mandate, according to recent guidance.