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HealthCare.gov, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Secret Service and the OPM data breaches are what stand out in most people's minds about government operations in the Obama administration. He has 17 months left to leave the government in a better place and prepare it for a smooth transition. Bob Tobias is director of business development for Key Executive Leadership Programs at American University.
September 04, 2015 -
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Veterans Benefits Administration Under Secretary Allison Hickey told Federal Drive with Tom Temin that roughly 98,000 claims that are older than 125 days have been reduced to about 91,000. a sub-100,000 case milestone reached in late August.
September 03, 2015 -
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More than 150 national defense projects would be at risk if the Defense Department enters fiscal year 2016 under a Continuing Resolution. The Air Force could take the brunt of that with depleted ranks and 50 programs on the potential chopping block. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells In Depth with Francis Rose there's not much you can do, if you sell to the Pentagon, except prepare for the worst.
September 03, 2015 -
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Sixteen vendors are winners in 18F's Agile Blanket Purchase Agreement from the General Services Administration. It requires vendors to submit a working prototype based on a public dataset and then use a git repository to show their work. 18F worked closely with the Federal Acquisition Service to make the awards to large and small businesses. Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, spoke to In Depth on Francis Rose about the award.
September 03, 2015 -
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Pressure to save money and make your bid lower than the next company's is pushing more vendors to consider self-insurance. Industry Chatter guest Nicole Mitchell is a certified public accountant and a partner in Aronson’s Government Contract Services Group. She and her colleague La Tasha Patel wrote about what you need to know about self-insurance.
September 03, 2015 -
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Investors in the biggest companies that serve the federal government aren't exempt from the ups and downs of the stock market that have been playing out for the last several weeks. Ross Wilkers is newsroom editor at Executive Mosaic, which tracks the GovCon Index. He told Francis Rose on Industry Chatter the wild ride on Wall Street in August made for some heartburn for investors in government contracting companies too.
September 03, 2015 -
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The General Services Administration and the Defense Department are working together on a possible new contract vehicle. The goal is to help federal agencies buy commercial cloud computing services. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, nothing’s final yet. But GSA and DoD think the idea could help reduce costs and simplify the cloud acquisition process.
September 03, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is trying to alleviate concerns from industry about new procedures for independent research and development and getting paid for it. DoD laid out new requirements in its Better Buying Power 3.0 plan in April to increase oversight of independent R&D. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin discuss why industry is concerned and what DoD is doing about it.
September 03, 2015 -
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Early in the Iraq war, substandard electrical wiring at U.S. bases caused the deaths of soldiers. The lawsuits are still dragging on. Construction contractor KBR has sued the Pentagon for documents it says it needs in lawsuits against the company. The DoD hasn't complied. Joe Petrillo, a partner at the law firm Petrillo and Powell, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to the sort out this case and its implications.
September 03, 2015 -
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Recent congressional patent reform focused in part on trolls, individuals or companies who purchase patents and then try to intimidate other businesses into legal settlements over alleged infringement. Patent expert Richard Bennett is a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He says these reform efforts are fine as far as they went. But he says on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin that the reforms didn't go to the root of the issue.
September 03, 2015 -
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This week on Women of Washington, Eileen Sweeney, senior vice president and general manager of data management at Iron Mountain, discusses her work securely storing both digital and traditional paper files for the government and its contractors.
September 02, 2015 -
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The weapon system acquisition programs at the Defense Department combine for a total estimated cost of over $1.4 trillion. About seven years ago, the Government Accountability Office recommended a departmentwide portfolio management approach for those investments. Today, GAO said that system could use some improvement. Mike Sullivan, director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO, tells In Depth with Francis Rose what policy issues need to be addressed.
September 02, 2015 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has special power now to get rid of senior executives who engage in misconduct. Congressional overseers want to extend that power to cover other employees at the agency. Stewart Liff is a fellow at the Performance Institute. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that federal managers have more power to fire people than they might think.
September 02, 2015
