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The Federal Acquisition Service has had a busy first six months of fiscal 2022, including trying to give contractors and agencies relief from inflation.
Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review names Sanjay Gupta, the former SBA CTO, as its new CIO.
The White House’s fiscal 2023 budget request includes $65 billion for federal civilian IT spending, including big increases for DHS, OPM and SBA.
While the Biden administration is asking for $773 billion for 2023, that number may not go as far as hoped. DoD says it finished up its planning for 2023 before inflation rates rose and before Russia invaded Ukraine causing oil prices to spike.
The General Services Administration changed the requirements for bidding on the $10 billion Polaris small business contract at the last minute causing some small firms to second guess their plans.
Omnibus bill adds more than $1 billion in facility upkeep funding, an area DoD has knowingly neglected in its budgets for at least a decade.
Despite a $500 million request from the White House and the House initially appropriating $50 million for fiscal 2022, lawmakers decided not to add any new funding to the Technology Modernization Fund.
The House-Senate appropriations agreement leaves out a DoD request to significantly expand a pilot program to test "colorless" appropriations for software and technology development.
The inflation rate is at its highest since the 1990s and contractors are losing money and some may be thinking about leaving the federal industrial base altogether.
Kelly Fletcher is the new principal deputy CIO for the Defense Department while Okie Mek, the chief AI officer at HHS, is leaving after 20 years of federal service.
New reports from DoD and NDIA highlight ongoing challenges the defense industrial base is facing in light of rising tensions among near peer competitors.
One of the Navy's diagnoses for poor user experience is endpoint security run amok, multiple malware scanners fighting each other constantly. The service has a plan to fix at least that part of the problem.
Since November at least six agencies issued notices or requests for information/proposals to industry seeking feedback on how to do more to protect their supply chains.
GSA is extending the continuity of services clause for Networx, WITS 3 and the local service contracts for a year that will allow agencies and vendors time to sunset services on the expired contracts.