Reporter's Notebook

House tech leadership biggest surprise of summer changes

Alan Thompson, the CIO, and Justin Black, the CTO, of the House of Representatives were among the federal IT executives leaving their positions over the…

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Blame the lawyers if your agency is paying 10%-to-25% more for certain cloud services

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Is GSA’s Alliant 3 vehicle tilted too much to small, very large contractors?

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Busy federal fourth quarter to bleed into just as crazy first quarter of 2024

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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Republicans called agency job inventories ‘barely decipherable,’ and they’re not wrong

Three House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee chairmen wrote to OMB seeking data and details about how agencies are complying with the Federal…

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Login.gov’s problems further break down confidence in TTS, and now GSA

Current and former federal technology officials say the recent inspector general report on GSA’s Login.gov reinforced why working with the Technology…

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Commerce’s CATTS procurement exemplifies all that’s wrong with federal small business contracting

A dozen unsuccessful bidders protested the award of CATTS IT services contract, claiming Commerce didn’t evaluate their proposals properly.

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