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Despite a lot of uncertainty in the broader economy, contractors have at least a somewhat optimistic view about the federal market. That’s thanks, in part, to a big influx of federal spending initiatives since the start of the pandemic. But vendors still see big challenges on the horizon, including increased competition and new demands to comply with federal regulatory requirements.
When Congress created the Federal Employee Retirement System in the ‘80s, one of the most notable changes was that future retirees would get smaller cost of living adjustments than participants in the old Civil Service Retirement System. CSRS and Social Security beneficiaries get COLAs that match inflation; FERS retirees get a smaller adjustment. That hasn’t been a big deal over the past decade of low inflation, but obviously circumstances have changed.
The latest lawsuit challenging DoD's COVID-19 vaccine mandate says the Air Force's religious accommodation process is set up to make those exemptions almost impossible to get.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bill passes the House giving federal workers who get injured on the job better access to workers' compensation.
Just because they can send you email or phone you at all hours day and night doesn't mean you have to answer.
The Defense Department is still figuring out how to raise the cybersecurity waterline among its vendor community as part of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. And some new research based on privately collected cyber risk intelligence shows the problem is as urgent as ever.
We now know, with ever-mounting evidence, that pandemic relief spending resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted spending. The same could happen with infrastructure spending unless agencies tighten up their oversight.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, known as BARDA, isn't a household name. But it was at the center of federal efforts to get COVID vaccines developed and into the market.
In today's Federal Newscast, news on a potential multimillion dollar settlement for victims of the Office of Personnel Management hack.
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has been doling out money to agencies for special projects since 2018. The first cohort of projects were supposed to show they would be able to produce enough savings to pay back the TMF.
When the government establishes a mandated source of supply, that means there's no way around it. That's what the Defense Logistics Agency found when it issued a solicitation for body armor parts.
In today's Federal Newscast, Democratic House lawmakers want to expand federal employee telework for the long-haul.
Eleanor Stokes, a senior scientist on the University Space Research Association's Earth from Space Institute in Columbia, Maryland, shared more details on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
It's an eternal question. How to grow your business in a mature market with lots of established players. The Defense software market is as mature as any, and yet the DoD has a pervasive need to modernize its software to take into account cloud computing, the need to refresh the military strategic offset, and a host of other reasons.