Tom Temin Commentary
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A powerful driver of federal acquisition policy is suspicion the government isn't getting the absolute lowest prices vendors have to offer.
June 24, 2016 -
The agency caught heat for how long it took to issue the rules. Now it's uncorked an industry ready to pop.
June 22, 2016 -
The day a web mail ban went into effect, guess who waived himself from it? None other than Secretary Jeh Johnson.
June 21, 2016 -
For the next three weeks, New Carrollton IRS employees find themselves cut off from main headquarters downtown.
June 20, 2016 -
Common access cards work. They get you on the network. They open gates and doors. But DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen is right. It's time for them to go.
June 16, 2016 -
If Microsoft mixes LinkedIn into Office 365, will people eventually have to become Office 365 subscribers to use LinkedIn?
June 15, 2016 -
Just as after the Boston Marathon bombings, expect questions on what did the FBI, the intelligence community and Homeland Security, know, share and act on.
June 14, 2016 -
Joining the military means you're prepared to put skin in the game, as the saying goes. More and more, that skin is adorned with ink.
June 10, 2016 -
Contractors lose the bulk of award protests. But Congress seemingly exists to discover problems and fix them.
June 09, 2016 -
Hillary or Donald, my impression is that the real person in both cases lies hidden deep in a "heavily forested interior."
June 08, 2016 -
The highly publicized alcohol ban, dutifully reported by every outlet in the world, strikes me as theatrical.
June 07, 2016 -
TSA is wise to start looking at technologies that will speed the dreary process of passenger screening by a factor of at least two.
June 06, 2016 -
Federal websites have lots of information, but they occasionally wander into propaganda territory.
June 03, 2016 -
The question for Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is how tough and accountable the Navy will be about itself as the Fat Leonard scandal widens.
May 31, 2016 -
Rolling Thunder returns a measure of authenticity to Memorial Day by reminding us to actually memorialize those killed fighting the country's wars.
May 30, 2016