The Federal Acquisition Security Council is developing a scorecard to help assess governmentwide supply chain security readiness. The council was created four years ago to coordinate IT supply…
Few people heard of the FAA’s NOTAM system until it crashed and brought aviation to a standstill earlier this month. The FAA blamed a contractor for accidentally deleting…
Last year’s big spending at the Pentagon will continue this year, with small business getting more opportunities to share in the wealth. Defense contract spending rose 6.7% in…
Washington Technology Editor in Chief Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower as Amtower starts his 16th year on Federal News Network. In a wide ranging conversation they discuss:…
The White House, following up on one of President Joe Biden’s earliest priorities in office, is setting a common standard for science and research policies across the federal…
For the Food and Drug Administration, as for so many agencies, information technology is a big-ticket expenditure. The Health and Human Services inspector general examined FDA contracting officers…
New rules proposed by the Federal Trade Commission to ban workplace noncompete agreements have stirred a lot of opinions. Workers’ rights advocates say the move will help wages…
Learning professionals and the Human Resources team should be having conversations about how productivity is defined and measured to determine both pay and the organizational hierarchy. The post…
NASA is reconstituting its data analysis team to improve its decision making around acquisition. The idea of using data to drive decisions isn’t new for NASA. But with…
This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. There is a maxim of business…