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
The General Services Administration is finalizing details of an occupancy agreement for the Navy to move into the Coast Guard‘s former headquarters at Buzzard Point in Washington, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Daniel
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The construction of the $3.5 billion Zumwalt, set to be the U.S. Navy’s largest destroyer ever built, is on time and on schedule, The Associated Press reported on Oct. 20. David Sharp
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Federal government offices will reopen Thursday after being shut down for 16 days as Congress passed a short-term agreement to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling by an 81-18 Senate vote
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The top two leaders in the Senate reached an agreement Thursday to fund the government through Jan. 15, 2014 and extend the country’s debt limit to Feb. 7. Bloomberg reports that under the
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were working on a deal to raise the debt limit and re-open the government with the goal of bringing that
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A new MeriTalk survey of 100 federal government cybersecurity workers says close to three quarters of professionals have put data theft prevention at the top of their list of priorities. Seventy-four percent
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The TechAmerica Foundation forecasts federal agencies will spend $70 billion per year on known and unclassified information technology by fiscal year 2019, FierceGovernment IT reported Tuesday. David Perera writes the findings are measured in constant dollars,
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The U.S. and Afghanistan have reached a preliminary agreement to maintain some troops in Afghanistan after the majority of foreign soldiers leave the country by the end of 2014, Reuters reported Sunday.
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The FBI will work with the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Investigation under an information sharing pilot program, through which the state agency will access the bureau’s cybercrime databases, FCW reported Thursday.
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A merchant mariner involved in a 2009 standoff with Somali pirates says continued federal budget cuts could shrink the number of U.S.-flagged ships that ferry military supplies worldwide, Reuters reported Thursday. According to David
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