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Dan Tangherlini, administrator of the General Services Administration, told his audience at the recent ACT-IAC 2014 Executive Leadership Conference his plans for reform in government business practices, FCW reported Tuesday. Adam Mazmanian writes that Tangherlini wants to encourage federal workers to take risk adopting new practices such as agile software development and a common acquisition platform …

The House of Representatives office of the chief administrative officer is looking for a contractor to provide data center colocation services to legislative branch agencies. Industry proposals for the potential six-year data center space and operations contract are due Nov. 25, the House said Monday in a FedBizOpps solicitation notice. …

The government of the District of Columbia and the U.S. General Services Administration have entered into negotiations regarding the Department of Homeland Security‘s move to the St. Elizabeths campus. GSA proposed to exchange an underutilized federal property for D.C.’s construction services to rehabilitate the streetscape of DHS’ future office complex …

Novetta Solutions has released a new report that details the existence of a foreign cybersecurity threat and action steps compiled by industry on how to remediate and counter an attack from the group. The action items included a concerted effort from a coalition of security solutions companies to take down associated …

Elizabeth Hyman, TechAmerica Foundation executive vice president, says the federal market remains a viable option for government contractors even with forecasts of tighter spending in federal defense and civil information technology. “Despite budget pressures, the federal government remains a large potential market for companies that are fully invested in it,” …

The U.S. government has facilitated a total of $34.2 billion in sales of military equipment and services for fiscal year 2014 via the foreign military sales program and other security cooperation agreements. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday total FMS sales of arms, defense equipment, training and other services totaled $31.2 billion and non-FMS sales …

Two industry executives have provided their views on the Pentagon’s efforts to reform its weapons acquisition process in the face of budget uncertainty and international security threats, Defense News reported Sunday. Paul McCleary writes Ben Fitzgerald, a program director at the Center for a New American Security, believes a key …

James Clapper, director of national intelligence, has called on federal government and law enforcement agencies to collaborate toward what he calls vertical intelligence integration. Clapper told audiences at the IATA – AVSEC World conference on Monday that “intelligence integration” has been the theme of his leadership for the past four years. He noted the …

U.S. defense organizations are moving quickly to adopt big data and analytics tools for work such as military vehicle maintenance, infrastructure management and tactical decision-making, Defense Systems reported Friday. Terry Costlow writes some big data projects underway at the Defense Department aim to develop new methods for analyzing intelligence, surveillance …

Edward Cardon, commanding general of the U.S. Army Cyber Command, said the service has begun to recruit information technology professionals to join the branch’s newly formed cyber organization. The Cyber Branch will be housed at Fort Gordon in Georgia and be co-located with the National Security Agency headquarters, the Army …