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Rise in OTAs for federal contracting brings mixed blessings

The IBM Center for the Business of Government has sponsored a detailed analysis of OTAs and how the government is using them.

Acquisition

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021, file image from video, Jeff Zients, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president., Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair of the COVID-19 health equity task force, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team,, appear on screen during a White House briefing on the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. (White House via AP, File)

GAO: Agencies could’ve been more transparent in pandemic response OTA’s

Federal Newscast

DIU rethinking cyber endpoint protections through advanced deception tools

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Pentagon has huge blind spots in its spending on OTAs

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DoD’s JAIC rolling out new contracts to speed up AI acquisition

Artificial Intelligence

DISA’s first-ever production OTA eliminated $300M in future costs

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., delivers her opening statement during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on unsustainable drug prices on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Congresswoman wants to make sure Trump administration preserves records

Federal Newscast

Defense Innovation Unit out to prove AI, automation can keep up with the speed of cyber

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Pentagon R&D spending still lags behind an otherwise healthy Defense budget

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Toni Townes-Whitley is the president, U.S. Regulated Industries at Microsoft.

Why one vendor thinks agencies are flocking to OTAs

Contracts/Awards

Uniformed and civilian cyber and military intelligence specialists monitor Army networks in the Cyber Mission Unit’s Cyber Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Ga. (Photo by Michael L. Lewis)

Army, DHA take steps to stop managing day-to-day IT operations

Reporter's Notebook

GSA preps 3rd version of STARS small business contract

Also in today’s Federal Newscast, USDA employees relocating to Kansas City will now get incentive payments to make up for their now lower salaries.

Federal Newscast

Army issues solicitation to commercialize IT on its installations

Responses to the Army’s Enterprise IT-as-a-Service prototype are due within a month, work is set to begin by the end of this year.

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In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019 photo a sign for the entrance to the National Archives is seen in College Park, Md. A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, at least the second theft case involving the research facility. Robert Rumsby, of Fredericksburg, Va., told investigators he took dog tags that belonged to four U.S. airmen killed in plane crashes in 1944, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court last month. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Agencies told to phase out paper records by December 2022

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Management and Budget has given agencies a timeline to switch from paper records, to electronic records.

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