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DoD's $7.2B moving contract included 'pervasive' violations of procurement rules

Newly-released legal document shed light on the numerous reasons GAO sided against U.S. Transportation command in its contract to overhaul the military moving system.

Defense

Pentagon loses two bid protests that challenged $7 billion moving contract

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD puts down serious money on 5G experimentation

Defense

Two firms renew legal challenges to DoD’s $7B moving contract

Federal Newscast

New mechanism for VA to screen patients, employees for coronavirus

Defense

DoD reverses course, says no corrective action needed on $7B moving contract

Federal Newscast

IRS discontinuing incentive payments for employees who go into office

Secretary of the Army John McHugh receives an update briefing from various staff members of U.S. Army Cyber Command during a visit April 2, 2012, Fort Belvoir, Va. U.S. Army Cyber Command is the newest Army Service Component Command. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. John G. Martinez) (Photo Credit: Spc. John G. Martinez)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Army is latest DoD organization to shake up its IT leadership structure

Senior Master Sgt. Paul Kalle, 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron first sergeant, speaks with a family during a Deployed Spouses Dinner Feb. 18, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The monthly event is a free dinner at Georgia Pines Dining Facility designed as a ‘thank you’ for each families’ support and sacrifice while their spouse is deployed or on a remote assignment. The dinner, occurring on every third Tuesday of the month, provides an opportunity for spouses to interact with other families of deployed Airmen, key spouses and unit leadership, as well as provide a break for the spouse while military sponsor is deployed. The next Deployed Spouses Dinner will be March 17. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)

Defense

30,000 military families expected to relocate despite stop movement order

Stephen Lyons

Defense

TRANSCOM awards $7B to revamp military moving process

FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival tech giant Amazon protested what it called a flawed bidding process. U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing this week of March 13, 2020 that the Defense Department “wishes to reconsider its award decision” and take another look at how it evaluated technical aspects of the companies' proposals to run the $10 billion computing project. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon to use Defense Production Act for $133 million in N95 masks

Senior Master Sgt. Paul Kalle, 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron first sergeant, speaks with a family during a Deployed Spouses Dinner Feb. 18, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The monthly event is a free dinner at Georgia Pines Dining Facility designed as a ‘thank you’ for each families’ support and sacrifice while their spouse is deployed or on a remote assignment. The dinner, occurring on every third Tuesday of the month, provides an opportunity for spouses to interact with other families of deployed Airmen, key spouses and unit leadership, as well as provide a break for the spouse while military sponsor is deployed. The next Deployed Spouses Dinner will be March 17. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)

Defense

Military stop move order leaves service members paying two rents, DoD concerned about moving companies

Chicago's Lake Shore Drive is barren of its usual vehicle traffic, Monday, March 23, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic could test a generation in ways they have never faced. One expert likens the impact to that of the Great Depression. As they're being asked to study at home and distance socially to help their more vulnerable elders, how will they cope? (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Defense

Exclusive UPDATE: Nearly 30,000 troops stuck in limbo because of DoD's coronavirus 'stop move' orders

This combination of photos shows Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 24, 2019 and Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in Washington, on Sept. 13, 2018. Cybersecurity experts said Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, there are many questions still unanswered from an investigation commissioned by Bezos that said the billionaire's phone was hacked, apparently after receiving a video file with malicious spyware from the WhatsApp account of the crown prince. (AP Photo)

Federal Newscast

Senator asks intelligence community to look into Jeff Bezos phone hacking

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Defense

DoD plans April contract award to fix 'fundamentally flawed' moving system

Navy Vice Adm. Charles "Chas" A. Richard assumes command of the U.S. Strategic Command from Air Force Gen. John Hyten during a change-of-command ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Nov. 18, 2019. Richard comes to USSTRATCOM after serving as the commander of Submarine Forces; commander of Submarine Force Atlantic and commander of Allied Submarine Command at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. USSTRATCOM has global responsibilities assigned through the Unified Command Plan that include strategic deterrence, nuclear operations, joint electromagnetic spectrum operations, global strike, missile defense, and analysis and targeting. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. April Wickes)

Defense

Battle of semantics leads to change in the way combatant commands are named

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Defense

Service member household goods woes continue as Congress puts more requirements on centralized contract

money

Federal Newscast

Bicameral bill would even out locality and General Schedule pay

JEDI

Defense

DoD using 14 entities as JEDI pathfinders as contract gets underway

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2016, file photo, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover headquarter building in Washington. An FBI terrorism investigation that concluded last week with a 20-year prison sentence is atypical since it involves a defendant in the United States receiving funds from abroad to commit an attack locally. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Federal Newscast

GAO says GSA is underreporting how much it spent on federal real estate

Norton

Federal Newscast

DC delegate wants federal employees to have short-term disability insurance, for a fee

JEDI

Contracting

JEDI award delayed, DoD CIO preparing agencies for its arrival

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Federal Newscast

DMV lawmakers ask about pay raise...again