Professional Services Council
-
Agencies have a specific goal now from Congress to move security clearance holders from periodic reinvestigations to continuous vetting programs. The goal is just one of several provisions aimed at modernizing the security clearance process that lawmakers included in the 2020 defense policy bill.
December 12, 2019 -
To talk more about what the situation looks like, the Professional Services Council's David Berteau joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 03, 2019 -
With a Capitol Hill seemingly paralyzed by impeachment zeal, what about the needs of, well, federal agencies who want to do work for the public?
November 19, 2019 -
President and CEO of the Professional Services Council David Berteau joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for what services contractors are thinking.
November 05, 2019 -
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.
October 30, 2019 -
The Defense Department is out with its first department-wide intellectual property strategy but it leaves a lot of details still to be addressed.
October 22, 2019 -
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.
October 16, 2019 -
Both changes were mandated by law, but they took a while. Alan Chvotkin at the Professional Services Council gave his take.
October 08, 2019 -
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.
September 23, 2019 -
It's better than a shutdown, but the 2020 fiscal year will kick off under a CR.
September 23, 2019 -
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.
September 10, 2019 -
For details, David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 26, 2019 -
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.
August 26, 2019 -
The Department of Homeland Security released a solicitation through its Commercial Solutions Opening pilot to see if vendors have artificial intelligence tools to improve the Contractor Performance Assessment Retrieval System (CPARS) process.
August 19, 2019 -
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Program Support Center is not answering the phone or email for many of its customers and decided it doesn’t have the authority to transfer contracts back to their home agencies.
August 19, 2019