Reporter's Notebook
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A year after the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a major policy strategy, industry experts say communication between contracting officers and vendors remains the biggest obstacle to success.
December 14, 2015 -
Two senators are pushing OMB and agencies to rein in spending on software licenses.
December 14, 2015 -
The FCC becomes the latest agency to fully move to the more secure protocol. NIST's scorecard shows agency progress over the last decade.
December 14, 2015 -
Tom Sharpe, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, said over the summer the General Services Administration would make access to the e-Buy tool available to the public. Two weeks before the end of the year, the transparency effort continues to hit roadblocks.
December 14, 2015 -
A year after the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a major policy strategy, industry experts say communication between contracting officers and vendors remains the biggest obstacle to success.
December 14, 2015 -
A newly disclosed report makes clear that security managers at the Washington Navy Yard had tried to point out at least some security deficiencies.
December 07, 2015 -
Small business advocates inside the Defense Department are concerned about a new set of requirements DoD imposed on a huge number of IT contractors beginning in October.
December 07, 2015 The Congressional Budget Office raises the question: Do we have too many uniformed military personnel performing office work?
December 07, 2015-
A newly-disclosed report makes clear that security managers at the Washington Navy Yard had tried to point out at least some security deficiencies well in advance of the September 2013 shootings.
December 07, 2015 -
In this week's Inside the Reporter's Notebook, the Office of Personnel Management issued a solicitation for a workforce analysis of Federal Investigative Services and those offices that support it.
December 07, 2015 -
The latest task order under the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) program would bring continuous monitoring-as-a-service (CMaaS) to 41 small and micro agencies.
December 07, 2015 -
The Veterans Affairs Department’s Vets First program is taking center stage before the nine justices over whether it applies to the general supply schedule programs.
December 07, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management issued a solicitation for a workforce analysis of Federal Investigative Services and those offices that support it.
December 07, 2015 -
For the first time, nearly all of the Defense Department’s budget is under professional audit, the Pentagon told Congress in a report last week, making 2015 a “pivotal year” in getting the entire department’s books in audit-ready condition by the end of fiscal 2017.
November 23, 2015 -
DoD leaders attested last week that they’ve now come up with a way to seamlessly share data outpatient data with the Department of Veterans Affairs using their existing systems, even though it was a year later than Congress wanted.
November 23, 2015