What the continuing resolution still leaves unresolved
For contracting and procurement, life goes on under the CR, but the signs aren’t good. Chaos in one chamber of Congress threatens passage of the National Defense Authorization…
The FAR council goes big into proposing new cybersecurity rules
Almost everything the government buys in the future could look like cybersecurity with some other product attached, if new proposed rules from the Federal Acquisition Regulation council take…
Using artificial intelligence to improve contract proposals
Mark Amtower and Carl Dickson Government proposal guru Carl Dickson joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss several recent topics Dickson has written about,…
FAR Council updates whistleblower protection, small business rules
Contractor employees will have enhanced whistleblower protections starting Nov. 6 after a years long effort to improve protections. In its final rule, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council made…
Fiscal 2024 starts with a CR, but contractors still have lots of opportunities
Fiscal 2024 started off like most fiscal years, with a Continuing Resolution. The government is still spending, and contractors have lots of opportunities. For the top opportunities in…
HR Line of Business sets ‘guiding principles’ for managing the employee lifecycle
Federal human resources employees now have a standard set of data and business elements, and performance measures to lean on as they modernize their hiring and other processes….
Federal CISO looks ahead to conversation around new contractor cyber rules
A top White House cybersecurity official says the “conversation is being started” around sweeping new cyber requirements for federal IT contractors. One rule published in the Federal Register…
Less than a week in, contractors sort out the meaning of the 45-day continuing resolution
The continuing resolution, which lasts until November 17, takes a six-and-a-half week bite out of fiscal 2024’s calendar. In a sense, it resets the countdown to a government…
The reason why the Air Force pulled the plug on a huge cyber contract may surprise you
The Air Force was 18 months into the Enterprise Cyber Capabilities acquisition and on the brink of making awards. The excitement over this potentially $5 billion multiple award…
A Homeland Security effort to combine requirements has stalled
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative called “the Joint Requirement Council” hasn’t gone very far in 10 years. The Council is supposed to discover capabilities multiple DHS…