Acquisition
Where should agencies look for innovation?
John Kammerer, NSA's technical director of high performance computing solutions, wants the federal government to pay more attention to startups.
Modernization
Why GAO nixed the Census mobile deal
Census made several key slipups in its decision to award a $283 million mobile device contract for the 2020 population count, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Acquisition
Agile at scale
Federal agencies are embracing agile development, but new ways of thinking are needed to make it work at government scale.
Acquisition
Army streamlines adapt-and-buy approach
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford said the formation has to shed the "thinking of old" and think outside of the procurement process if it wants to be cyber-battle ready.
Acquisition
Lawmakers hear from Trump's picks to lead GSA, OPM
Federal hiring, the clearance backlog and procurement data came up in a Senate confirmation hearing for candidates to lead the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration.
Acquisition
GAO sustains protest in $283M Census mobile contract
As the Census Bureau prepares to ramp up its preparations on a tight budget and schedule, the Government Accountability Office decided a critical $283 million contract was not rightfully awarded.
Digital Government
GAO denies Equifax bid protest
The protest had resulted in a controversial (and now suspended) bridge contract from the IRS for Equifax's identity management and taxpayer fraud protection services.
Acquisition
IRS suspends Equifax contract
After a tough congressional hearing and news of more infosec woes at Equifax, the IRS suspended a $7.2 million contract with the credit monitoring agency.
Acquisition
House passes FITARA extension
The bill expands on the 2014 legislation to permanently authorize transparency and risk management in IT investments and extends the sunset dates of data center consolidation provisions.
Acquisition
Let's change the "I" in RFI from information to interaction
To truly work together, government and industry should do a lot more talking.
Modernization
DHS moves ahead on financial system amid questions from Congress
DHS released the final draft RFP for its financial management system modernization to potential vendors and told them to plan for a late October contract award.
Acquisition
House panel seeks probe of contractor data calls
The Energy and Commerce committee asked the GAO to examine whether the Department of Energy is wasting contractors time and money with superfluous requests.
Modernization
Navy looks to break ground with collaborative IT contracts
By getting ongoing industry input on contracts from industry, the Navy is expecting to save time. Will it work?
Acquisition
TBM 'years away' from full implementation
Top federal IT officials signaled that they are moving full steam ahead implementing the Technology Business Management framework, but caution that progress will take time.
Acquisition
GSA looks to help startups navigate big contracts
The General Services Administration offers vendors a roadmap to getting on Multiple Award Schedules.
Acquisition
Healthcare.gov downtime to grow during 2017 open enrollment
Uptime for the Healthcare.gov system will decrease during the coming open enrollment period, in part due to a shortened open season, and in part due to an increase in scheduled maintenance.
Modernization
USAF awards $1B cloud deal
Dell EMC, Microsoft and General Dynamics are the winners in what's being called the largest-ever federal cloud award.
Acquisition
Crunch time for acquisition portal in defense bill
Reconciliation of the massive defense bill could put new off-the-shelf acquisition sources into the federal acquisition mix, but experts worry about the details.
Acquisition
Navy delays 2018 NGEN award schedule
The Navy announced a five-month delay in its award schedule for two of its IT contracts to implement a new 'sprint' process.
Acquisition
White House's IT policy deadline looms
Administration will collect comments on a draft plan to rethink federal IT through Sept. 20, leading to a final report and a year-long flurry of activity to consolidate networks and develop new cloud policy.
Almost There!
Help us tailor content specifically for you: