The BIOSECURE Act
Joy Sturm, partner, Hogan Lovells Joy Sturm, partner at Hogan Lovells, joins Off the Shelf for a briefing on the proposed BIOSECURE Act that would reshape biotechnology supply chains…
What happened when the Air Force neglected its biggest plane for too long
Lockheed Martin recently won a settlement worth more than $130 million in a protest with the Air Force. The company completed a contract to update the big C5…
Election uncertainty doesn’t slow an ambitious regulation agenda
The upcoming presidential election keeps taking surprising and unsettling turns. One constant, though: the Biden administration doesn’t seem to be holding back on an ambitious agenda for regulation,…
GOP lawmakers demand SBA postpone IT upgrades amid year-end contract spending surge
Top Republicans who oversee the Small Business Administration are calling on the agency to delay an overhaul of its online certification portal until after the end of the…
Managing Employees Needing (But Not Ready for) Retirement
What happens when an employee is showing signs of not being able to keep up with their work anymore, but they don’t acknowledge it? Is there a way…
End of Fiscal Year marketing
Lisa Sherwin Wulf This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by GovCon marketing expert Lisa Sherwin Wulf of LSW Marketing. Topics discussed include: End of…
Competing global supply chain approaches
The pandemic and its aftermath created a greater awareness of the fragility of global supply chains, and the federal government’s overreliance on adversaries in the supply chain. As…
With UNO, Army intends to stop battling its own network
The Army has a plan to no longer “fight the network.” Through the Unified Network Operations (UNO), initiative, the Army wants to create an agile, software-defined network that…
NIH could use a little more follow through when it comes to ending contracts
Just as important as obtaining contracts with companies to help fulfill an agency’s mission, is the ability to end them properly. That’s the part the National Institutes of…
Why bidders for federal contracts need to deal with conflicts of interest early on
Conflicts of interest in federal contracting can happen in a lot of ways. In one tangled case, an award winner’s subcontractor turned out to have a conflict of interest….