2019 NDAA

Senior Master Sgt. Paul Kalle, 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron first sergeant, speaks with a family during a Deployed Spouses Dinner Feb. 18, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The monthly event is a free dinner at Georgia Pines Dining Facility designed as a ‘thank you’ for each families’ support and sacrifice while their spouse is deployed or on a remote assignment. The dinner, occurring on every third Tuesday of the month, provides an opportunity for spouses to interact with other families of deployed Airmen, key spouses and unit leadership, as well as provide a break for the spouse while military sponsor is deployed. The next Deployed Spouses Dinner will be March 17. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)

Military spouses should see more flexible job opportunities under new OPM hiring policy

For the next 22 months, agencies can noncompetitively hire military spouses to a federal position regardless of their location, according to a long-awaited…

Hiring/Retention

Section 889 implementation: Language changes that may have big consequences

Commentary

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019, file photo, attendees walk past a display for 5G services from Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei says its 2019 sales rose 19.1% over a year earlier despite U.S. sanctions that hampered its smartphone and network equipment businesses. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Ban on Chinese products starts today despite confusion over acquisition rule

Acquisition Policy

Professional Services Council

NDAA is not the only congressional activity contractors are watching

Contracting

A busy week highlighting critical challenges for government market stakeholders

Commentary

An update on the 2019 NDAA

Off the Shelf

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Cyber Command paying closer attention to overseas networks in its national defense mission

Defense

Labor Dept. trying out faster way to process contractor punishments

Federal Newscast

Pair of bills would ensure federal workers don’t lose insurance during future shutdowns

Federal Newscast

DoD could award more contracts to companies with disabled workforce

Contracting

e-GSA: Creating opportunities through e-commerce

Commentary

e-Commerce: To be or not to be

There are many benefits associated with ensuring competition, but recent reform proposals for commercial e-Commerce raise concerns about whether competition…

Commentary

2019 defense budget tradeoffs are unavoidable, one expert says

Mark Cancian, senior adviser for the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined Federal Drive with Tom…

Federal Drive

The Civil False Claims Act & OTAs

Off the Shelf

Marcia Madsen, partner at Mayer Brown LLP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf to discuss the Civil False Claims Act and some of the key acquisition reforms outlined in the 2019 NDAA. October 2, 2018