Small business contracting

Air Force will no longer shoot down Facebook foes

Also in today’s Federal Newscast, the U.S. Forest Service and Defense Logistics Agency are teaming up to fight fires. And President Biden appoints the…

Federal Newscast

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Pentagon advisers want DoD to build out agreements between small and large defense businesses

Defense

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Small business contract awards in 2021 reach all-time high

Contracting

This team of business coaches aims to enlarge the field of minority federal contractors

Workforce

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How multi-billion dollar defense contractors netted small business set-asides

Defense Industry

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GSA hits the play button on Polaris by finalizing solicitation updates

Contracts/Awards

Air Force wants to show airmen how to fuel themselves up

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Where exactly do most of federal contracting dollars actually go?

Contracting

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2021 file photo, Fulton County Georgia elections workers process absentee ballots for the Senate runoff election in Atlanta. When voters in Florida and Georgia request mailed ballots next year, they will have to make sure they do one more thing before sending it in: provide proof of identification. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Postal Service agrees to provide more transparency during election season

Federal Newscast

The General Services Administration (GSA) building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. General Service Administrator Emily Murphy, the head of the obscure federal government agency that is holding up Joe Biden's presidential transition, appeared to know she might be facing a messy situation after the votes came in. Prior to Nov. 3, Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration, held a Zoom call with Dave Barram, 77, a man who was in her shoes 20 years earlier during the contested 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Barram said he advised her to

GSA is out with suggested corrections to $50B Polaris RFP

Contracts/Awards

In the relatively small world of government contracting, it pays not to be a jerk

Contracting

Who says small innovators can’t get big federal contracts?

Startup that got big Air Force deal plans to stay a firmly commercially-focused company

Commentary

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova speaks with refugees outside a processing center in Lviv, Ukraine on March 22, 2022. She has stationed prosecutors at refugee centers across the country and at border crossings to extract evidence from millions of displaced Ukrainians and register them as victims potentially eligible for compensation. (AP Photo/Erika Kinetz)

Federal employees can now send portion of their pay to help Ukrainian refugees

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management is giving all federal workers the option to contribute to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Isabella Casillas Guzman attends a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship confirmation hearing on her nomination to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The new head of the Small Business Administration expects to make changes at the agency that she says will enable it to further help small companies devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

SBA dropping thousands of temporary employees hired as part of COVID response

Federal Newscast

The Small Business Administration is planning to shed the equivalent of more than 3,400 full-time employees as part of its budget request for fiscal 2023.