NCMA Insights: What is agile contracting?
Tom Temin We’re with Kristina Botelho. She’s a contracting officer with the Air Force and part of the agile contracting community of practice. All right. Let’s start with…
NCMA Insights: Cost estimating for the Air Combat Command
Tom Temin: Give us a little bit of a scope of what it is you cover as a contracting specialist. Eric Christianson: I work through the Air…
NCMA Insights: How interactive procurement contracting is changing the training landscape
Tom Temin My guest is Dustin Pitch. He’s the future workforce capabilities lead for the Army Contracting Enterprise. Dustin, good to have you with us. Dustin Pitsch Thanks…
NCMA Insights: Contracting and purchasing for the fourth largest county in the nation
Tom Temin My guest is Jack Pellegrino. He is the director of purchasing and contracting for San Diego County. And that’s California, correct? Jack Pellegrino That’s California. Tom…
Raw numbers don’t tell enough of the story about what the acquisition workforce needs for future success
The federal acquisition workforce has recovered from the so-called “peace dividend” of the 1990s. The number of 1102s or contracting officers, is at its highest point in the…
Contractors take issue with gigantic new rule from the Labor Department
The Labor Department is out with a final rule to update how the government determines wages it will allow in federal construction contractors, as well as in federally…
DoD’s budget challenges will take years to fix, but reform commission says now’s the time to start
The expert panel Congress assembled to find fixes to the Pentagon’s archaic planning and budgeting process won’t deliver its final prescription for reform until next spring. But its…
Blame the lawyers if your agency is paying 10%-to-25% more for certain cloud services
A 200 year-old law created to protect the government from paying for goods and services they may never receive is the latest obstacle agencies in how they buy…
Things are cookin’ at the DHS Procurement Innovation Lab
It doesn’t have boiling flasks or people in white coats, but a lot happens in the Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL) operated by the Homeland Security Department. For an…
How federal acquisitions will help recovery in Maui
Advance contracts and GSA contracts for state and local governments, are a couple of the avenues by which the federal government and its acquisition system will get aid…