supply chain

Competing global supply chain approaches

Although the BAA favors domestic production, it has the downside of allowing the acquisition of Chinese products in certain circumstances.

Commentary

NAVSUP, supply chain, Bataan Amphibious Ready Group Conducts Photo Ex

NAVSUP works overtime keeping up with Navy’s heightened tempo

Defense

Will that bridge collapse in Maryland affect federal supply chains?

Management

Should the Defense Department get more mixed up with mergers and acquisitions?

Acquisition

Protecting the supply chain and national security

Commentary

Update on supplies, supply chains from Army Materiel Command

Army

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

New DHS supply chain center aims to head off future crises

Open Data/Transparency

FILE - The inside of a computer is seen on Feb 23, 2019, in Jersey City, N.J. A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities, so Congress is looking to boost chip manufacturing and research in the United States with billions of dollars from the federal government. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

Contracting

An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

DoD to release first industrial strategy by end of year

Defense Industry

How the Defense Department can improve surge capacity in the supply chain

Defense

This NASA project really shows the need for supply chain security

Space Operations

U.S. Homeland Security Department Undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding, speaks during the Second U.S.-China High-Level Joint Dialogue on Cybercrime and Related Issues at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. (Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

A deep look at how the government can promote resilience down to the local level

No one can predict when disaster will occur. But organizations, whether government or private, can control how well they respond. It is all about risk…

Cybersecurity

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)

CBP puts forced labor statistics online for everyone to see

Among the uglier mass human-rights violations going on in the world today, is forced labor imposed on the Uyghur minority by China. Congress, in the Uyghur…

Workforce

Top tech issues in the federal market

Amtower Off-Center

Washington Technology Editor in Chief Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the state of NITAAC & CMMC, mergers and acquisitions, and CIO-SP4.