The General Services Administration hosted an industry day Tuesday to brief contractors about the agency’s new blanket purchase agreement for agile information technology services, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Jack Moore writes GSA could
MoreThe U.S. Defense Department has proposed seven legislative initiatives that seek to simplify rules governing military acquisition and program management, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes Frank Kendall, defense undersecretary
MoreThe Joint Chiefs of Staff has now included cybersecurity under the survivability key performance parameter for the acquisition of new defense technologies with embedded computing systems, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes that
MoreRep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), House Armed Services Committee chairman, aims to take an incremental legislative approach to help the Defense Department fix the agency’s procurement issues, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared
MoreThe Office of Management and Budgetâs Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council has approved 10 new marketplace categories of commonly purchased items under the governmentâs category management approach. The categories cover spending areas such
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NASA will adopt new tools intended to help government buyers to access more product and vendor information under the agency’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement program, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller
MoreSean Stackley, assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition at the U.S. Navy, has said the new Congress should clean out laws that slow military innovation, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. âAny legislation
MoreFrank Kendall, acquisition chief at the Defense Department, has updated the agency’s procurement guidelines to offer multiple sample program structures, DoD News reported Wednesday. âProgram managers and program executive officers should use
MoreThe U.S. Army on Monday issued a formal solicitation for a potential 10-year contract covering work to produce and deliver Rifleman Radio systems, Defense News reported Tuesday. Joe Gould writes the military
MoreThe federal government plans to re-compete several major contracts and make award decisions for new programs in the coming year, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Amrita Jayakumar writes the U.S. Air Force
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