Acquisition
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is focused on eliminating barriers to faster procurement, said its leader.
10/08/2020
Intelligence
A new congressional report wants the intelligence community to reform its personnel practices as well as take a few cues from the Defense Department to speed innovation.
10/07/2020
Acquisition
NASA's governmentwide acquisition contract sees substantial increase in orders for fiscal 2020; COVID impact is unclear.
10/07/2020
Acquisition
A push to buy a modernized DHS financial management system is being held up by another court battle, one that threatens to again upend a project that already suffers from a long history of failure.
10/06/2020
Defense
Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center under the U.S. Space Force, said cybersecurity was increasingly integral to space missions and changes had to be made to infrastructure contracts.
10/05/2020
Acquisition
A draft request for proposals for a new small business contract vehicle is expected from the General Services Administration in the coming months.
10/05/2020
Oversight
A GAO report found that the Army needs to do a thorough analysis of its use of rapid acquisition agreements to make contracting practices more uniform.
10/02/2020
Citizen Services
GSA's COVID-19 data aggregation operation sharpens information and services as pandemic continues.
10/02/2020
Steve Kelman takes issue with using the government's purchasing power to push unrelated political goals.
10/02/2020
Health IT
The My HealtheVet tool used by more than 3 million veterans to access care at the Department of Veterans Affairs could be retired in favor of a tool from vendor Cerner as part of the agency's $16 billion electronic health record software upgrade.
10/01/2020
Acquisition
The Department of Homeland Security is getting ready to implement a big part of its plans for the federal government's $50 billion next-generation telecommunications contract.
09/30/2020
Workforce
At the first presidential debate, Donald Trump said that he had ordered trainings on race and gender sensitivity training canceled because the curriculum is "racist". His opponent countered saying, "he's the racist."
09/30/2020
Citizen Services
The Small Business Administration is using a commercial off the shelf software as a services platform to process applications for its loan forgiveness relief program.
09/29/2020
Cybersecurity
The rule is designed to ensure DOD contractors are adhering to a uniform standard for protecting controlled unclassified information is protected. But while trade groups representing government and defense contractors have lauded the framework but criticized the implementation and rulemaking process.
09/29/2020
Comment
While the goal of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is to establish a unified standard for cybersecurity practices across the DOD, it does not directly address specific control expectations or risks associated with organization-specific threat actors.
09/28/2020