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…
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,…
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 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…
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….
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…
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 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 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…
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…