Acquisition
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told a Capitol Hill panel that she was pleased with new acquisition authorities, but said micromanagement is still slowing the pace of procurement.
03/23/2018
Contracting
EIS contractors are chafing under what they see as a slow transition from GSA's old telecommunications contract to its next-generation vehicle.
03/23/2018
Congress
Legislation may be coming with the aim of putting the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program back on track.
03/22/2018
Comment
Prime contractors on the government's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program need the ability to respond with agility to changing threats.
03/19/2018
Cybersecurity
The U.S. is developing a pair of reports dealing with cybersecurity standards for internet-of-things devices and combatting botnets, but recommendations will be non-binding and officials said not to expect a significant federal regulatory push.
03/16/2018
Procurement
Legislation to lift the micropurchase ceiling and implement agile competition rules is needed for a new online buying plan, officials say.
03/16/2018
Procurement
The Air Force materiel commander says organizational culture matters more than novel procurement authorities when it comes to reforming cumbersome processes.
03/15/2018
Steve Kelman shares some innovations that can be applied by contracting officers across government.
03/15/2018
IT Modernization
The General Services Administration picked the vendors who will support a plan to centralize modernization best practices.
03/14/2018
Acquisition
Citing savings and a developing agile contracting vehicle, GSA gives federal customers more time to work with its wireless blanket purchase agreements.
03/12/2018
Health IT
The agency's new Lighthouse project looks to nurture a community of developers to build apps incorporating VA data.
03/09/2018
Congress
A Senate panel voted up a DHS authorization bill, but it stripped out provisions to focus the agency on improving election system cybersecurity capabilities.
03/07/2018
Cloud
The timeline for a department-wide commercial cloud solution is aggressive, but Pentagon officials say deeper in-house expertise and better internal cooperation can get them to an award this year.
03/07/2018
Workforce
With the decennial count looming, a watchdog report finds problems with how the Census Bureau handles background checks of temporary employees.
03/07/2018
Acquisition
Nearly four years after the data breach, OPM was found to have improperly awarded a multi-million contract for identity theft services.
03/07/2018