Former CIA official discusses how to build a strong leadership team
Eric Traupe, former assistant director, CIA for the Near East This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Eric Traupe, a former public sector executive with…
Government funding in fiscal year 2023
(L-R) Tim Cook and Tom Sisti, Center for Procurement Advocacy This week on Off the Shelf, Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy (CPA) and…
DoD: How is it meeting the security challenges facing the nation?
This week on Off the Shelf, Bill Greenwalt, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Moshe Schwartz, president of Etherton and Associates, discuss the national security threats…
Government shutdown puts contractors in precarious position
There’s never a convenient time for a full or even a partial government shutdown, but we’ve reached the beginning of the end of another fiscal year with the…
Hard Talk: Confessions of an Accidental Marketing and Communications Professional
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Eileen Rivera, Federal MarCom leader and the author of Hard Talk: Confessions of an Accidental Marketing…
Federal Acquisition Service’s new structure seeks to break down long-held fiefdoms
Over the last 18 months, the General Services Administration has been asking some hard questions, mostly about itself. What does the Federal Acquisition Service need to look like?…
Far & Beyond: What the FAS Pricing Guidance Says and Doesn’t Say About Order Level Competition
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. This week, in the spirit of…
Air Force abruptly cancels a huge cybersecurity solicitation
The Air Force abruptly canceled a huge cybersecurity solicitation right before crossing the finish line. The competition for the estimated $5 billion Enterprise Cyber Capabilities (EC2) contract from…
The state of the Federal Acquisition Service
This week on Off the Shelf, Sonny Hashmi, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner, provides an update on the state of FAS, including outlining the ongoing realignment of the…
Pentagon chooses 8 new ‘hubs’ to lead $2B effort to revitalize US microelectronics
The Defense Department on Wednesday made hundreds of millions of dollars in contract awards meant to spur the development of microelectronics manufacturing throughout the country, part of a…