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Congress should protect competition, save Section 876

Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a senior fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George…

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Don Beyer

A progress report on a sitting Congressman who is back in college

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How DoD’s own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the ‘valley of death’

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Why the Pentagon needs to bolster its network of corporate consortiums

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OTAs and beyond: Scaling innovation in Defense contracting

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Defense innovation bumps up against a Cold War budget system

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(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)FILE- In this June 19, 2017, file photo, a person types on a laptop keyboard in North Andover, Mass.  A new report by a global media consortium that expands the known target list of the Israeli hacker-for-hire firm NSO Group’s military-grade spyware provoked alarm Monday, July 19, 2021,  among human rights and press freedom activists. They decried the near-complete absence of regulation of commercial surveillance tools.   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

When it come to defending against Chinese cyber espionage, agencies are a step behind

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University, vendor teaming up on robotic process automation to help with low-value tasks

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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)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)

DPA will help Biden lead a more federal-centric response to COVID

The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden’s first year as president.

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FILE - This Feb. 5, 2018, file photo shows the seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System in the ground at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington.  The Senate on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020,  narrowly confirmed the nomination of Christopher Waller for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, placing another of President Donald Trump’s picks on the Fed’s influential board after a string of high-profile rejections. The vote in favor of Waller’s appointment was 48-47. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Filling the Federal Reserve Board

You’d think for the way Congress appropriates the United States has unlimited money, and those trillions and trillions in debt are just academic. But budgetary…

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Congress may be turning against recently confirmed CMO role for DoD

Jerry McGinn of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for his take.

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