Acquisition & Procurement

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, or NITAAC, within the Department of Health and Human Services has decided to end the potential $50 billion Chief...

NASA has awarded contracts to two companies to conduct industry studies on how existing vehicles could be adapted for flight testing for airbreathing hypersonic technologies.Who Received the NASA Awards?The agency said...

U.S. defense contractors, tech companies, government agencies and academia are collaborating to develop a next-generation, multi-layered missile defense shield for the homeland against hypersonic, ballistic and cruise missiles, requiring massive...

The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has issued a request for information to gather industry input on deployable 5G systems capable of supporting operational missions.5G will be a...

The U.S. Army retired the Standard Procurement System for the Army, or SPS-A, in mid-December to further advance the implementation of a single, enterprisewide platform designed to streamline contract development,...

The General Services Administration has issued a request for information seeking industry feedback on the role, value and pricing practices of IT value added resellers, or VARs, in the federal...

The U.S. Army established six portfolio acquisition executives, or PAEs, as part of a restructuring effort in November, providing the service’s acquisition workforce with greater authority, clearer responsibilities and faster...

The Government Accountability Office has found that continuing resolutions, or CRs, have repeatedly disrupted the Department of War’s ability to carry out acquisition programs on schedule.Recent GAO findings highlight the...

Defense contractors that fail to deliver at sufficient speed risk financial and contractual penalties as federal acquisition priorities shift toward production throughput and industrial readiness, according to The Chertoff Group,...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has released a request for information to gather industry feedback as it plans a potential overhaul of its enterprise resource planning environment, signaling early steps...