The Obama administration on Wednesday will propose cutting the top corporate tax rate from 35 to 28 percent, a senior administration official told Reuters. The proposal also would cut the manufacturing corporate tax rate to 25 percent. The Treasury Department will release its plan to reform the corporate tax code Wednesday, according to Reuters. The [...]

Pentagon Press Secretary George Little took questions Monday; not from journalists, but from Twitter users. According to AFPS, Little answered questions from hundreds of users on topics ranging from Syria, Iran cybersecurity and Pentagon energy savings initiatives. Little said fielding the questions was a challenge and needed help to manage the questions, but added that [...]

Tish Long is director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a position she has held since August 2010. Long became the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency when she joined the NGA. She has served in the Senior Intelligence Executive Service since 1994, when she was appointed director of requirements, plans, policy and [...]

President Obama is nominating Frank Kendall to be the Pentagon’s top acquisition official, a position he is currently serving in an acting role, the White House announced Monday. Kendall became acting defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics after Ashton Carter was confirmed as deputy defense secretary in September. Obama announced three other nominations for [...]

The Army is hiring analysts to handle procurement management, policy and oversight, according to a post on USAJobs. The analysts will help develop contracting policy for the Department of the Army and provide guidance for contracting functions. This process will include reviewing current contracting activities in order to assess effectiveness and efficiency. The analysts will serve [...]

Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew will replace William Daley as White House chief of staff later this month, President Obama announced Monday. Obama said Daley informed him that “after spending time reflecting with his family over the holidays, he decided it was time to leave Washington” and return to Chicago. Lew became [...]

The winter issue of GovConExec Magazine, published by ExecutiveGov’s parent company Executive Mosaic, has made its annual selection of 15 officials across the public and private sectors who will shape the government contracting industry in 2012. Three federal officials were singled out who will help set the rules of the road for federal contracting. To [...]

Although the federal government will increase the importance of price when awarding contracts for goods and services in an upcoming era of tightened budgets, the government’s lead agency for acquiring resources sees this new era as a “sweet spot” for it to get agencies good value for their purchases according to Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner [...]

The Missile Defense Agency for the first time will include a “Contractor Accountability for Quality” clause in an upcoming contract for ground-based missile defense development and sustainment, Bloomberg reports. The MDA will have the authority to adjust performance fees under this new provision, which covers parts for missiles, radars and sensors that make up the [...]

The Government Accountability Office said on Wednesday it was not able to give an opinion on the Treasury Department‘s annual financial statement for the entire government. In his 6-page statement accompanying the full report, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro cited “material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and other limitations on the scope of our work” as [...]