Stephanie Kostro

State Department’s R&D approach has industry puzzled

Federal services contractors are scratching their heads over a State Department solicitation to sponsor three federally funded research and development…

Contracting

How rules are changing for defense-weapons contractors

Defense

Sequestration’s head pops up, for a peek at continuing budget uncertainty

Budget

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Industry groups push back on cyber incident rules requiring “full access”

Acquisition Policy

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Contractors on edge because of Pentagon’s proposed buying rules

Cybersecurity

Can a data environment actually improve federal procurement?

Big Data

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Comments are closed. Will the FedRAMP program actually get updated?

Cloud Computing

Average security-clearance-processing speed, hits a speed bump

Workforce

New House Speaker. New cyber guidelines. What contractors can do to navigate it all.

Congress

Less than a week in, contractors sort out the meaning of the 45-day continuing resolution

Contracting

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There they go again: Labor proposes overtime for salaried contractor employees

Contracting

A forest of proposed rules sprouts up around federal acquisition

Buy-American and not-buy-from-China rules have raised concerns from contractors. Meanwhile the FTC proposes new rules on contractor mergers that look practically…

Acquisition

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Cybersecurity comes home to roost for federal contractors

Contractors will, somehow, be living under it, and there’s still time to comment on it: The revision to NIST special publication 800-171 on protection…

Cybersecurity

Industry pushes hard for Congress to modernize foreign military sales

Defense

Three contractor trade associations have banded together on the issue of foreign military sales. Last year they sent a long list of suggested changes to the Defense Department. This year they’re focusing on the State Department.