Ernst presses SBA for details of 7(a) lender approval
The top Republican on the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee is pressing the Small Business Administration for more details on its recent approval of a new lender…
What space issues should the next administration be focused on?
Don’t know if you realize it but there’s a presidential election coming up in the next few weeks. Whoever does end up in the White House will have…
Does Your Mission Statement Include Commitment to Employees?
It’s in a company’s self-interest to think about its treatment of employees, as it is well known that unhappy employees equal unhappy customers. Plus, caring about your employees,…
What does the FAS mean by ‘leverage the collective buying power of the federal government?’
The General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) set forth the policies and procedures for the evaluation and negotiation of “fair and reasonable” contract…
OFPP pushing agencies to hone in on next generation acquisition workers
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is raising the acquisition workforce tide in an attempt to lift all agency contracting shops. In a new memo released this morning,…
How the Army uses prize competitions to boost its small business innovation program
Prize competitions have grown in popularity. They help agencies find needed new technologies and potential suppliers at low cost, and they introduce new companies to federal business. The…
Four companies face SEC fines for not disclosing they were affected by the SolarWinds hack
The Securities and Exchange Commission is slapping four companies with fines for misleading disclosures about a major cybersecurity hack. The SEC announced fines against Unisys, Avaya, Check Point…
Army wants to cut award times to six months
The Army wants to reduce the contract awarding process from the nearly two-year cycle — a notorious bottleneck for deploying technology to the field — to less than…
Excitement growing over GSA’s COMET II program
Listen carefully and you can hear the buzz in the federal market about a new contract from the General Services Administration. It’s not another big governmentwide contract like…
Commercial space companies now able to churn out satellites
The firm Aerospacelab, Inc. recently opened up a brand new satellite manufacturing facility in Torrance, California. The company plans on being to put out, on average, two satellites…