Acquisition

FederalNewsRadio has been Tracking the Transition — and following the money. Today, the Council for Excellence in Government released the Federal CFO Roadmap to give current and in-coming CFO’s insights about the job, the duties…

The Department of Defense is requiring officials who participate in costly acquisitions at the Pentagon to get written approval from an agency ethics officer before taking a job with a contractor. Government Executive is reporting…

The fiscal 2010 budget summary details almost four pages on how the Obama administration is going to manage the federal government. While many of the specifics were not laid out, there is a clear path…

There are a lot of opinions on how the defense procurement process could be reformed. The House Armed Services Committee has formed a bi-partisan panel to deal with the issue, and there is a bill…

Capability just as important as capacity

David Hickey Of Counsel GreenbergTraurig March 31st, 2009

The House’s oversight of reform for the acquisition system at the Pentagon is done by the Defense Acquisition Reform Panel, under the auspices of the House Armed Services Committee. Last week the panel heard from…

The Pentagon plans to hire tens of thousands of acquisition workers over the next five years. What kind of education and training does it take to get into this field? Charles Tompkins is a professor…

David Fisher Director Business Transformation Agency May 5th, 2009

Just like private-sector businesses, agencies are trying to squeeze out every last penny from IT budgets. One way is to extend the life of laptop inventories and other IT hardware. But Jack Gold of J.…