Reporter's Notebook
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GSA’s successes with downplaying price as an evaluation factor in picking contractors for large multiple-award contracts has spurred a broader look at this concept.
June 13, 2016 -
July 1 will mark exactly three years since stronger whistleblower protections went into place for employees of defense contractors.
June 06, 2016 -
The Army is a few weeks away from an experiment that aims to tackle the “use it or lose it” phenomenon that manifests itself at the end of each fiscal year in almost every government office.
June 06, 2016 -
The Navy’s top cyber commander says her service needs to spend the next one thinking about a broad array of new activities that fall under the general heading of “procedural compliance.”
June 06, 2016 -
After 29 years of disappointment, OPM said it has the right governance and oversight processes in place to modernize its retirement systems.
June 06, 2016 -
Dozens of vendors are concerned they will not be able to renew their contracts to provide office supplies under GSA Schedule 75. GSA says it doesn’t plan on reopening the schedule for at least another nine months.
June 06, 2016 -
Jason Gray comes over to the Education Department from the Transportation Department to replace Danny Harris as the CIO. State Department CIO Steve Taylor is expected to move to a new position in the coming month as well.
June 06, 2016 -
The 8½ inch floppy disk held up at the recent House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing was good theater, but it doesn’t tell the entire story of the state of old technology in the government.
May 31, 2016 -
Government contractors and GAO are likely to be busy this summer responding to several billion-dollar solicitations for IT services and dealing with the corresponding protests from the losing bidders.
May 31, 2016 -
The 2016 Management of Change conference sponsored by ACT-IAC provided several memorable, newsworthy moments this year.
May 31, 2016 -
GSA's 18F organization is taking a fourth bite at the identity management apple by developing a new platform called Login.gov despite 15 years of struggle to come up with a way for citizens, businesses and others to securely interact with agencies online.
May 23, 2016 -
Commerce, Energy, Labor and NASA told House lawmakers how they each are meeting the spirit and intent of the IT reform law.
May 23, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing May 25 on legacy IT systems where Federal CIO Tony Scott will have maybe the administration’s best chance to make its case for Congress to support the IT Modernization Fund.
May 23, 2016 -
The continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program is relying on a blanket purchase agreement approach that isn’t as flexible as DHS and GSA officials thought it would be.
May 16, 2016 -
The space agency released its entire source selection document for why it chose SAIC over CACI for a $447.8 million award.
May 16, 2016