Frank Kendall, the Defense Department acquisition chief, is keeping a close eye on 2016 National Defense Authorization Act provisions that relate to decision-making authority over military purchases, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. He
MoreThe Project on Government Oversight has urged the General Services Administration to drop its proposal for the government to use prices previously paid for goods and services as the basis for procurement rather than actual
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has released a report of its findings on the U.S. Air Force‘s practices on awarding and reporting undefinitized contract actions to the Defense Department‘s Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy office. Timothy DiNapoli,
MoreWilliam LaPlante, assistant secretary for acquisition of the U.S. Air Force, has said transparency, communication and agility are among the focus areas of the serviceâs acquisition strategies. LaPlante outlined the serviceâs top
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Alan Shaffer, the Defense Departmentâs acting assistant secretary for research and engineering, has said the department selected a U.S. Navy program as its pilot project under the military’s new âskunk worksâ weapons
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The General Services Administration has assigned a single special item number for cloud service offerings on the agency’s Information Technology Schedule 70 federal procurement vehicle. GSA said Thursday the commercial cloud category
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget has opened the public comment period on initial guidance for agencies to implement information technology reform policies, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes Federal
MoreAnne Rung, administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, has said she aims to assemble a team of acquisition specialists to help OFPP implement government-wide category management business practices, GovExec reported
MoreTop acquisition officials from U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy have testified before a Senate panel on efforts to reform the military’s processes and drive effectivity and responsiveness to needs, DoD News reported Thursday. Tyrone Marshall
MoreMark Naggar, program manager for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‘ Buyers Club, has said that HHS is moving away from a waterfall model toward an agile method to accelerate
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