When agencies enact new rules aimed at curtailing some aspects of the larger national economy they can sometimes lead to conflicting impacts on federal contracting, both for the…
In the four months since his Senate confirmation, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has been on a listening tour. Werfel has been talking to employees, the union representing employees,…
The White House is creating a new permanent office to fight COVID-19 and all future pandemics. The Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy will take over current…
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by business strategy advisor Shirley Collier of Scale2Market. Shirley Collier, president, Scale2Market Topics revolved around strategies for…
The Department of Veterans Affairs is laying the groundwork for greater oversight of its major acquisitions, following repeated probes from lawmakers. The VA on Tuesday released a draft…
For the first time, classified cloud capacity will be shared between the Defense Department and the intelligence community. The two organizations recently signed a memorandum of agreement that…
It only took six years. But now the Homeland Security Department has new regulations covering how contractors must handle CUI, controlled unclassified information better get ready. They go…
Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution. PPBE has been the way of the Pentagon since the 1960s. Nobody is thrilled with it, but it persists. The latest set of…
The federal government is setting a new record for overall small business contract spending — with more than a quarter of federal contracting dollars going to small businesses…
This week Peter Hutt, partner at Covington & Burling LLP, joins Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the False Claims Act, including the basics of the…