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Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, and Brenda Farrell, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at the GAO, join Pentagon Solutions.
Objections to the use of lowest-price technically acceptable for contracts are growing, including Booz Allen Hamilton and CACI protests of DISA’s $17.5 billion ENCORE III solicitation and a new bill from two senators to restrict when the military uses this type of contract.
With the demand for cyber skills high, the Air Force Reserve is trying to stay afloat.
Greg Garcia, the chief information officer/G6 of the Army Corps of Engineers, said the Defense Department’s mandated transition to Windows 10 is a top of mind priority, but he is balancing that with cyber, cloud and other priorities.
In this heated election season, the Government Accountability Office finds that some military absentee voting bugaboos persist, and the brass needs to do more about it. Brenda Farrell, GAO's director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues, shared her insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The first estimates of the savings realized from the House's plan to reform TRICARE come in around $7 billion.
Tucked into the National Defense Authorization bill for 2017 were two provisions that would change contract protests and not in a way favorable industry. The Professional Services Council had asked House Armed Services Committee leaders to drop them. PSC Executive Vice President Alan Chvotkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what's in the bill.
False stories harm the reputations of both the government and the contractor. Even whole programs.
Adm. Michelle Howard joins Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm to share her amazing and inspiring personal journey.
Industry partners are trying to give the next DHA CIO a leg up when the position is filled.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has had some success with a new model of paying health care providers. Rather than paying them for how many services they render, it's paying them according to health care outcomes and how well they coordinate among one another over individual patients. Dr. Paul Cordts, deputy director for health care operations at the Defense Health Agency, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how DHA could benefit from the same model.
Matthew Fay, a foreign and defense policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank. tells Pentagon Solutions how proposed reforms to the Defense acquisition process are missing the target.
The Professional Services Council and IT Alliance for Public Sector say lowest price technically acceptable is the wrong process to use when evaluating ENCORE III bidders.
The Obama administration nominated Gen. David Goldfein to take over Air Force chief of staff after Gen. Mark Welsh's exit.