Defense
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The Pentagon will help contracting officers and vendors understand what it’s buying and who is doing the buying through a new acquisition portal.
July 25, 2016 -
DoD’s new procurement evaluation process, value-adjusted total evaluated price, is part of a movement away from subjective evaluation of enhancements, and toward a more objective and quantifiable system.
July 25, 2016 -
What is the state of the government contracting market? Find out this week when Lohfeld Consulting Group CEO Bob Lohfeld joins host Mark Amtower on Amtower Off Center. July 25, 2016
July 24, 2016 -
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) wants DoD to recommend to Congress what bases need to be closed and let lawmakers vote on the closures individually.
July 22, 2016 -
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs certified to Congress that their electronic health records were finally interoperable. That was three months ago. And lawmakers aren’t satisfied with that assertion.
July 22, 2016 -
The Defense Department settled on two firms to manage the latest generation of its TRICARE health insurance system Thursday, picking Health Net Federal Services and Humana Military for contracts worth up to $18 billion and $41 billion, respectively, over nearly six years.
July 21, 2016 -
The Homeland Security Department recently issued an RFI on threats to mobile device security. The RFI includes a survey and room for the private sector respondents to expand on their experience with best practices and standards.
July 20, 2016 -
The Air Force's top enlisted officer is appealing to the Senate to reconsider its provision changing the Basic Allowance for Housing.
July 20, 2016 -
The Defense Department is trying an approach somewhere in between lowest-priced, technically acceptable and traditional best value. Attorney Sharon Larkin, a partner at Steptoe and Johnson explains value-adjusted total evaluated price on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 20, 2016 -
By the end of this calendar year, the Defense Department plans to deliver new assessments of the cost and scope of the Joint Information Environment, the ambitious, four-year-old project to unify an estimated 15,000 IT networks and improve their security posture.
July 20, 2016 -
The Defense Department is sending out review teams in September to evaluate selected data centers.
July 19, 2016 -
The Defense Department is heading to Washington and California to bond with its partners and get IT news straight from tech companies' mouths.
July 18, 2016 -
Defense Department officials have identified tens of billions in potential savings, but a lack of data is hampering their ability do anything about it.
July 15, 2016 -
Driven by global threats and a rise in defense spending outside of the U.S., the aerospace and defense industry worldwide will see growth this year, after falling for two years. That's the assessment from Deloitte in its annual performance study. Joining me with more, Retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Wald, vice chairman and senior adviser at Deloitte, has more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 15, 2016 -
The Army is behind schedule on transitioning to Windows 10 by 2017. Legacy systems are partly to blame.
July 15, 2016