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Defense

Pentagon wants to be ‘approachable’ for small businesses

Small businesses are entering the defense industrial base at a historically low rate, but the Pentagon wants to turn things around.

Technology

Update on defense-industrial-base crucial sector

Open Data/Transparency

New DHS supply chain center aims to head off future crises

Technology

One big supply chain security issue starting to get more attention

Commentary

Supply chain resiliency: Procurement lessons learned

Defense

What the Defense Department ought to do about weak links in its supply chain

Congress

Federal agencies' roles in helping to solve the baby formula shortage

President Joe Biden signs the "Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act" into law during a ceremony in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Federal Newscast

POTUS places order with radiation-hardened microelectronics companies

FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 2019 file photo, A container ship is unloaded at the Virginia International Gateway terminal in Norfolk, Va. Defying fears and predictions, the American job market is still shrugging off President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Employers added an impressive 266,000 jobs in November, and unemployment returned to a 50-year low 3.5% _ all at a time when the Trump administration is engaged in a bruising trade war with China while fighting other U.S. trading partners as well. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Management

Ideas for how the government can work with industry to revive U.S. manufacturing

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Defense

Pentagon eyes allied Defense Production Act expansion to shore up critical supply chains

Defense

DoD calls for whole-of-government effort to improve critical supply chains

FEMA

Management

Why were federal agencies, states not on same page with COVID response? Lawmakers ask FEMA

President Joe Biden signs executive orders on the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Contracting

Biden administration expected to ramp up use of Defense Production Act in response to COVID

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. For the second time in 2020, an independent federal review released on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, has faulted the U.S. Department of Defense for how it has responded when children on military bases sexually assault each other. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Defense

Pentagon transitioning its COVID-19 acquisition task force to permanent office

Air Force Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

On DoD

Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19

FILE- In this April 23, 2020, file photo a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is shown in San Antonio. Compounding the hardships of coronavirus, some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks. On Tuesday, June 9, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the Health and Human Services inspector general's office to issue a warning to nursing homes and assisted living facilities that such practices are “improper and unlawful.” (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal Newscast

PRAC details how it plans to monitor coronavirus stimulus funds

Fort Riley Hospital Army Base Kansas

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Audit finds multibillion DoD health care maintenance backlog jeopardizes safety

In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, photograph, monitors check their screens in the Governor's Office of Information Technology in downtown Denver. Some cybersecurity professionals are concerned that insurance policies designed to limit the damage of ransomware attacks might actually be encouraging hackers. “We don’t know what that ransom payment is going to fund,” said Brandi Simmons, a spokeswoman for the office. “As a state government, we don’t want to be in a position of funding cyberterrorists.” (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Federal Newscast

Ensuring the federal IT workforce of the future

DoD

Defense

Pentagon says it needs billions to repay contractors for employee leave

Robert Wilkie, Richard Stone

Veterans Affairs

VA doesn't have the personal protective equipment it needs to handle second pandemic wave

Democratic Party of Hawaii staff tabulate presidential primary ballots in Honolulu on Friday, May 22, 2020. The Democratic Party of Hawaii is scheduled Saturday to release the results of its party-run presidential primary which was delayed by more than a month due the coronavirus pandemic. The party expected most members to vote by mail and some to cast ballots at about 20 in-person polling sites. But concerns about the virus forced the party to cancel in-person voting and allow only mail ballots. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Federal Newscast

USPS lays out suggestions on vote-by-mail services for local governments

In this April 16, 2020, photo Sonia Munoz, left, custody assistant, gets her temperature taken at the hospital ward of the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles. Across the country first responders who've fallen ill from COVID-19, recovered have begun the harrowing experience of returning to jobs that put them back on the front lines of America's fight against the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Federal Newscast

NTEU lays out standards for calling federal employees back to offices

An airline passenger walks by the vacant TSA checkin at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Romulus, Mich. The COVID-19 coronavirus has considerably slowed air travel. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Federal Newscast

Congressional Democrats trying to secure hazard pay for frontline federal workers