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 [...]

Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors for Siemens Government Technologies, the company announced Monday. McChrystal served in the Afghanistan command post from 2009-10 prior to his retirement after a 34-year Army career. From 2008-09, he served as [...]

Executive Mosaic, the parent company of ExecutiveGov and a stable of online news properties geared toward the government contracting industry, has launched the most in-depth issue yet of our quarterly print magazine GovConExec. In our winter 2011 issue, we take readers into the new C4ISR for our cover story. C4ISR covers more than just the battlefield, as [...]

The Labor Department proposed a new rule Thursday calling for contractors and subcontractors to raise their disability hiring, with a goal to make up 7 percent of their workforce. Federal contractors and subcontractors are already under obligations for equal opportunity employment as part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 under Section 503. The Office of Federal Contract [...]

In a recent survey of nearly 62,000 undergraduates at 362 colleges, students put government agencies in the ranks for top 100 ideal places to work. The survey, conducted by Universum, polled students from Dec. 2010 to March 2011 and yielded the Top 100 Ideal Employer Rankings in categories including business, engineering, information technology, natural sciences and [...]

The Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012 passed Thursday by a 93-7 vote with a provision requiring contractors to monitor their supply chain. The amendment, sponsored by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), also requires contractors to buy parts from trusted suppliers as determined by the Defense Department. [...]

An agency that deals mainly in crunching numbers takes the top spot for having clear and easy-to-understand written content, according to a recent survey. VisibleThread, a firm specializing in developing document analysis solutions, released its first VisibleThread Website Index, covering the fourth quarter of federal fiscal year 2011. The Bureau of Labor Statistics took the top [...]

Reaction has poured in from the business and political communities regarding the congressional supercommittee‘s announcement Monday that it has failed to produce a deficit reduction proposal. Reaction from the business world primarily focused on the possibility of $600 million in additional defense cuts. “There is a mistaken notion floating around Washington that even if the [...]

The Partnership for Public Service has released the results of a study which ranked the best places to work within the federal government in 2011. The results are based off of responses recorded by the Office of Personnel Management’s Employee Viewpoint Survey. In total, 266,000 employees (a 49.3 percent response rate) took part in the [...]

Raytheon and Government Security News honored retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen Monday with the publication’s first-ever award for “Distinguished Leadership and Innovation in Public Safety and Security.” A Raytheon statement calls the award GSN’s highest public safety award, recognizing individuals who contribute to the public’s safety and well-being through the virtues of personal integrity, [...]