Industry
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Mears is head of Motorola Solutions\' Government and Public Safety.
November 17, 2011 -
OMB details the 12 product service codes and specific steps agencies must take over the next year to cut 15 percent of their management service contracts next year. Agencies spent $44 billion on these contracts in 2011.
November 17, 2011 -
The Defense Department said it intends to not just rebuild its acquisition workforce in numbers, but also make sure those employees have access to new tools that will give them the insight they need to make good decisions.
November 16, 2011 -
Under the $40 million deal, ICE wants a modernized system that gives investigators access to more than 100 disparate databases.
November 15, 2011 -
Jan Frye, the deputy assistant secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department\'s Office of Acquisition and Logistics, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris live from the conference to discuss the big issues in contract management.
November 14, 2011 -
The Lockheed Martin NextGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center is already under construction. It is expected to open in March and will house 200 employees. The system will run three private clouds and one public cloud.
November 11, 2011 -
Kevin L. Kelly is the chief operating officer for LGS Innovations.
November 10, 2011 -
The Court of Federal Claims rules in VA\'s favor on five of six counts. But VA must relook at Standard Communications\' bid to see if it meets the solicitation\'s best value criteria.
November 10, 2011 -
DRC is a government contractor that provides services in management consulting, science, engineering and technology solutions.
November 09, 2011 -
Two senior senators will introduce an amendment to the DoD authorization bill to increase the oversight over the IT supply chain. A preliminary report from GAO finds counterfeit technology parts easily making their way into weapons systems.
November 09, 2011 -
The Defense Department needs fast, reliable, resilient satellite networking capabilities across the globe. It\'s wrestling with how to provide those capabilities in the face of dropping budgets.
November 09, 2011 -
he leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee say counterfeit electronic parts, mostly from China, are flooding the supply chain for the Pentagon.
November 07, 2011 -
Under the America Competes Act, an interagency working group issued a RFI asking for input across 13 areas on how to ensure federally-funded research data is available for the long-term.
November 04, 2011 -
The Energy Initiatives Task Force held its first industry day to explain how it wants to get green energy projects built on installations. The Army must receive 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. The task force will develop an acquisition strategy and a new multiple-award contract over the next year.
November 04, 2011 -
Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, and Rob Burton, former acting OFPP administrator, outline what they think the criteria should be for the new OFPP administrator
November 03, 2011