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“It signals that there’s some openness to looking at creative ways to leverage this tool and deliver better value,” Emily Murphy said.

While the RFI is a positive step in GSA’s efforts to gain insights into the commercial IT market, it also raises procurement policy and program considerations.

The CIA says it’s also using “centralized vendor vetting” and a “streamlined IT authorization process” to speed up acquisitions.

There is a clear distinction between managing and partnering with employees. Training managers on the value of trust, autonomy, and two-way feedback can help ensure high-performing teams. The…

NITAAC will begin the process of moving its CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract to GSA in the coming months.

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Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia outlined his focus areas around three big buckets people and culture, compliance and policy and technical projects and modernization.

“People in the national security community are deeply concerned about the cost of this program, the insurmountable viability issues facing it,”Gabe Murphy said.

“We have seen vendors bring negativity and interactions on Capitol Hill. I’ll be clear: for the Army, it’s a non-starter,” Michael Obadal said.

“This might be part of that push to scrub the consulting community and really ‘defend the spend,’” PSC’s Stephanie Kostro said.