The Defense Contract Management Agency is in the process of hiring personnel for its network of “centers of excellence” that aim to give procurement and contracting officers guidance on what constitutes as a commercial
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has proposed 10-year budget cuts to the ODNI in the double digits of billions of dollars, he said Monday at the GEOINT geospatial intelligence conference in
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NASA has selected three new flight directors to manage International Space Station operations, the agency announced Monday. Judd Frieling, Tomas Gonzalez-Torres and Greg Whitney will join human spaceflight leaders at the Johnson
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Observers of the Postal Service and Congress believe Democrats and Republicans are treating the agency’s financial crisis with a sense of urgency and are headed toward a compromise, according to a report
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The recent BlackBerry outages may drive more smartphone users to the iPhone and Android platforms, but the BlackBerry is still preferred in government offices. According to National Journal, the main reason is
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The number of safety errors made by air traffic controllers involving flights near U.S. airports doubled between fiscal 2008 and 2011, the Government Accountability Office said. In a report released Thursday, GAO
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The federal government has recently embarked on a round of data center closures, an initiative the White House said will save agencies a combined $630 million by 2015. The Office of Management
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Defense cuts are a primary topic of conversation in the government and in the defense industry, providing a timely backdrop for Congress to host both the Pentagon’s top civilian official and uniformed
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The Office of Personnel Management notified federal employees Wednesday they have until Nov. 19 to schedule their annual leave or risk losing leave time. Angela Bailey, OPM associate director of employee services,
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The Small Business Administration is considering allowing agencies to get credit toward their annual small-business subcontracting goals for orders placed against multiple-agency contracts, the agency said last week. In a Federal Register
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The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation Thursday by voice vote to repeal a requirement that the Internal Revenue Service withhold 3 percent of all government contracts. Currently, when a company
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