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FILE - In this April 5, 2020, file photo, Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, supply chain task force lead at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington. U.S. officials are invoking a rarely used provision of American law that would shield companies from antitrust regulations to help the country from again running out of medical supplies in a pandemic. Polowczyk, who was appointed to run a White House supply chain task force in response to the outbreak, told reporters last week that the government is expanding the emergency stockpile of critical supplies and medicines managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

With initial urgency passed, agencies using pandemic to rethink, innovate processes

The State Department created an intra-agency team to reimagine many of its business and administrative processes now that the initial urgency of the pandemic…

Reporter's Notebook

First Look

How the Federal Acquisition Security Council will tackle supply chain risk management

Reporter's Notebook

DISA sends message to large companies: Meet small business goals or risk getting off-ramped

Reporter's Notebook

IRS, Army using automation to cut hours out of the acquisition process

Reporter's Notebook

CISA’s still overcoming challenges 5 years after Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act became law

Reporter's Notebook

Call to change how agencies rate contractor performance rises to new level

Reporter's Notebook

Some question why White House plans to fill federal CIO, CISO roles now

Reporter's Notebook

A cyber cautionary tale: Unnamed agency suffers sophisticated, possibly nation state, attack

Reporter's Notebook

Acquisition roundup: Unpriced schedules on the horizon? SSA, Library of Congress lose protests

Reporter's Notebook

Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Management and Budget (CISO)

Federal CISO Schneider knew when to let the cyber cats roam, when to herd them

Reporter's Notebook

GSA finally pushing price competition to where it belongs: At the task order level

Reporter's Notebook

Education’s Federal Student Aid to get new CIO; CISA, NTIS losing executives

Mia Jordan, the CIO at the Agriculture Department’s Rural Development bureau, is leaving after 10 years to become the CIO at the Education Department’s…

Reporter's Notebook

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Launch of IT vendor management office part of next phase of category management

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, GSA, NASA and NITAAC are working together to launch a new office in October that will use acquisition intelligence…

Reporter's Notebook

Limiting period of performance is killing highly successful 8(a) GWAC

Reporter's Notebook

SBA and GSA are defending their decision to limit the period of performance under the 8(a) STARS II governmentwide acquisition contract as part of raising the ceiling by $7 billion, saying more than 500 of the 700 small businesses have graduated from the socioeconomic program.

With initial urgency passed, agencies using pandemic to rethink, innovate processes

How the Federal Acquisition Security Council will tackle supply chain risk management

DISA sends message to large companies: Meet small business goals or risk getting off-ramped

IRS, Army using automation to cut hours out of the acquisition process

CISA’s still overcoming challenges 5 years after Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act became law

Call to change how agencies rate contractor performance rises to new level

Some question why White House plans to fill federal CIO, CISO roles now

A cyber cautionary tale: Unnamed agency suffers sophisticated, possibly nation state, attack

Acquisition roundup: Unpriced schedules on the horizon? SSA, Library of Congress lose protests

Federal CISO Schneider knew when to let the cyber cats roam, when to herd them

GSA finally pushing price competition to where it belongs: At the task order level

Education’s Federal Student Aid to get new CIO; CISA, NTIS losing executives

Launch of IT vendor management office part of next phase of category management

Limiting period of performance is killing highly successful 8(a) GWAC

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