Acquisition & Procurement

The Office of Management and Budget has issued new guidance to help strengthen domestic supply chains for U.S.-produced semiconductors through federal procurement.OMB said Thursday the memorandum outlines additional management actions...

The Defense Innovation Unit has selected three companies to prototype innovative technologies for efficient air conditioning and water heating applications in Department of Defense facilities.The selected companies will demonstrate heating...

An official from the Defense Information Systems Agency cautioned small businesses against pitching artificial intelligence-powered tools for programs that are not specifically asking for AI. Carlen Capenos, director of the...

U.S. military departments have not fully incorporated iterative development structures across all four pathways under the adaptive acquisition framework put forward by the Department of Defense when it revamped its...

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the White House Office of Management and Budget has released new guidance directing federal agencies to scale innovative buying practices through organizational improvements.In...

General Services Administration official Laura Stanton provided updates on the Governmentwide Microsoft Acquisition Strategy, or GMAS, of the IT Vendor Management Office, or ITVMO, as part of advancing priority 2...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced guidance for its offices and programs in purchasing commercial data for environmental intelligence. The 25-page document, titled “Guidance for NOAA Commercial Data Buys”,...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued the statement of work, or SOW, for the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design and Analysis 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.Presolicitation ObjectivesThe purpose of the...

The Defense Innovation Unit announced it is seeking concepts for forward counter unmanned aircraft system command and control, or FCUAS C2, solutions enabling a single operator to engage multiple drone...

Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the Department of Defense to conduct a competitive award process when procuring artificial intelligence...