Professional Services Council

President and CEO of the Professional Services Council David Berteau joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for what services contractors are thinking.

DoD’s chief information officer told lawmakers the White House could not have interfered with the JEDI decision because the identities of the team that made the decision have been kept secret all along.

The Defense Department is out with its first department-wide intellectual property strategy but it leaves a lot of details still to be addressed.

Policy and legal experts say informal guidance can be helpful to agency stakeholders and others but acknowledged instances where the documents have become stand-ins for the official rulemaking process.

Both changes were mandated by law, but they took a while. Alan Chvotkin at the Professional Services Council gave his take.

Michael Wooten, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said his priorities are centered around building on existing efforts like category management, upskilling the workforce, unlocking technology to create innovation and harnessing acquisition data to turn it into business intelligence.

It’s better than a shutdown, but the 2020 fiscal year will kick off under a CR.

With cybersecurity among the top national security concerns, the Pentagon has been pushing for greater cybersecurity in its supply chain — all 300,000 companies in it.

For details, David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Coalition for Government Procurement, the National Defense Industrial Association and the Professional Services Council say the interim final rule published Aug. 13 needs some clarity around False Claims Act liability.