ACT-IAC

The General Services Administration has released a request for quotation for Phase One of its Center of Excellence discovery services, laying the groundwork for GSA to set up CoEs at new partner agencies.

Employer branding is one of the chief battlefields in the fight for talent. The government is not well-positioned for that fight.

Associations and conference organizers say this partial government shutdown is different and is starting to impact their planning and execution of events, training and more.

At the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on Wednesday on the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, the latest scorecard is expected to show progress in several areas.

Glenn Davidson, the former executive director of enterprise services at the Commerce, said after three years the agency is seeing better services and cost avoidance from consolidating IT, acquisition and HR services.

The administration plans to update its shared services strategy in the December release of the President’s Management Agenda.

You may not have seen him on the rostrum at the big conferences, but Ken Allen has been behind the scenes at ACT-IAC for nearly 14 years.

Federal Drive host Tom Temin reminds everyone that artificial intelligence applications aren’t set-and-forget. They require constant tending and training.

At the 2018 ELC conference, GSA and the IRS were among the agencies highlighting how robotics and other emerging technologies can make federal acquisition better and faster.

Acquisition took center stage during day two of the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council’s 2018 Executive Leadership Conference in Philadelphia on Tuesday.