Comment
Attempting to modernize without a comprehensive approach that accounts for an agency's culture, engages its workforce and addresses critical business practices can actually create new or additional challenges that limit effectiveness and negatively affect mission outcomes.
09/18/2020
Acquisition
Large businesses were misidentified as small businesses in General Services Administration's procurement data system, according to the agency's watchdog.
09/17/2020
Defense
The independent board charged with implementing the Defense Department's unified cybersecurity standard has new leadership as it announces new milestone hit.
09/16/2020
Acquisition
The Department of the Interior, the Council on Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency and the Defense Information Systems Agency spent the summer awarding Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task orders.
09/15/2020
Congress
Legislation from congressional tech stalwarts would add security requirements for connected devices purchased by the federal government.
09/15/2020
Defense
Air Force leadership highlights the need for digitally fluent personnel and digital manufacturing during the 2020 Air, Space, Cyber conference.
09/14/2020
Steve Kelman looks at the efforts of a non-traditional contractor to bring new firms into the fold.
09/14/2020
Defense
The General Services Administration is seeing high rates of acceptance of contract modifications from contractors to comply with acquisition rules in the 2019 defense bill.
09/11/2020
Defense
The Defense Department wants to make AI training available to all DOD components by 2021.
09/11/2020
The Defense Department released a long-awaited update of policies governing its buying practices, with an eye to rapid technology acquisition.
09/09/2020
Defense
After a reevaluation of certain aspects of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure solicitation, the Defense Department is sticking with its guns and giving the contract to Microsoft -- but that doesn't mean a long-running legal battle will just go away.
09/04/2020
Acquisition
The agency also released a list of 51 firms that would qualify for reimbursement, spanning from smaller telecoms to large vendors like Verizon and CenturyLink.
09/04/2020
Defense
The Defense Information Systems Agency is moving into production for its $199 million cloud-based internet security tool, aiming to migrate 1.5 million users in the first year.
09/04/2020
Health IT
Leaders of the VA's $16 billion health record modernization plan look to jumpstart their implementation schedule.
09/03/2020
Acquisition
A panel of federal appellate judges affirmed a lower court decision denying a protest by Oracle in the Defense Department's $10 billion cloud procurement dubbed JEDI.
09/02/2020