Tom Temin Commentary
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Cabinet nominees, judges — those names will be debated, dragged through the mud. But presidents bring in many more people they alone can choose.
August 15, 2016 -
The National Park Service has seen the light, so to speak. In the D.C. region, the staff has been changing out the lighting for the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and other sites.
August 12, 2016 -
As for the presidential transition, let's be real: 99 percent of what you do every day won't change.
August 11, 2016 -
Both Olympic athletes and Sammies finalists have enhanced capacity to persevere, take on risk and overcome setback. Talent helps, too.
August 10, 2016 -
Even cybersecurity is a business. Even with eternal demand companies have their ups and downs.
August 08, 2016 -
How would you like to spend a precious August week doing complicated math for the salaries 10, or 25 or 367 employees?
August 05, 2016 -
Rigging the election, or the possibility of it, is on the collective mind of the Obama administration, but on a different vector than that of Donald Trump.
August 04, 2016 -
The Defense Department plans to eventually buy nearly 2,000 F-35s. The FAA has registered some 500,000 drones.
August 03, 2016 -
An hour from Washington D.C. by a road flowing ceaselessly with purposeful trucks and cars, sits a hulking, dead factory, railroad tracks that no longer bring trains full of parts and supplies.
August 02, 2016 -
If there's a trade policy gap between the two candidates at all, it's hard to see through the crack.
July 29, 2016 -
A vendor-neutral, competition-endorsing, small-business-loving government should try to get the best deal.
July 28, 2016 -
The 2017 NDAA Section 800, which deals with acquisition reform, has 50 subsections. This year it had 99.
July 27, 2016 -
Few totally new ideas hatch under the stars, but some old ones gain currency. Here are two having to do with contracting.
July 26, 2016 -
Wiggle in with program people early in the acquisition cycle so that contracting officers know exactly what it is the program needs or is trying to do.
July 25, 2016 -
Feds don't feel they occupy a cubicle just to follow rules and push the proverbial paper. They know their missions and endeavor to really support them.
July 25, 2016