supply chain

Why it takes a fourth party to accomplish third-party software supply chain risk assessments

In the federal software world, supply chains are often extensive. How can an agency ensure its risk assessments can adequately gauge potential threats?…

Federal Insights

Maintaining medical supply chain resilience

Off the Shelf

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

FILE - Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas, May 2, 2019. A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, according to a federal watchdog. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Even Customs and Border Protection is getting into the green movement

Workforce

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What the Defense Department ought to do about weak links in its supply chain

Defense

The role of health care in the pillars of national security

Commentary

Air Force/Darryl Bolden Jr.

While advocates await new DoD data on military food insecurity, researchers suggest solutions

Defense

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Strengthening America’s supply chains with global standards and technology solutions

Technology

Health care products and pharmaceuticals: Addressing resiliency in a challenging global economy

Commentary

Lloyd Austin, Antony Blinken, Volodymyr Zelenskyy

On Capitol Hill, a deepening commitment to keep arms flowing to Ukraine

Congress

Supply chain assessment identifies 200,000 products ‘of concern’ in fed marketplace

Acquisition Policy

How government technology leaders can plan during the supply chain crisis

Commentary

Contractors need agencies to help them ‘whip inflation now!’

The inflation rate is at its highest since the 1990s and contractors are losing money and some may be thinking about leaving the federal industrial base…

Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon: Contractor mergers hurt national security, economy

The Defense Department has released a report that says mergers and consolidation among its contractors pose risks to the U.S. economy and national security

Contracting

Lawmakers urge cancellation of multibillion dollar VA logistics system

Veterans Affairs

Congressional leaders urged VA to abandon a costly supply chain IT system it recently decided to borrow from the Defense Health Agency that has failed to meet VA’s requirements.