Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) believes that a new proposed rule for the acquisition of commercial products at the Defense Department “undermines” efforts to drive collaboration with Silicon Valley, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Colin Clark
MoreThe General Services Administration is in talks with the Defense Information Systems Agency about the possible launch of a commercial cloud computing service-focused governmentwide acquisition contract, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jared
MoreFrank Kendall, acquisition chief at the Defense Department, has said that it could take DoD a few more years to recover from the impact of budget uncertainty caused by sequestration, FCW reported
MoreAdm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, has told Defense News the U.S. Navy will have to delay aircraft construction, shipbuilding and other projects if continuing resolutions will continue beyond the first quarter of
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Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall plans to require contractors to hold technical interchange meetings with the Defense Department before and after they conduct department-backed independent research and development projects, he wrote in
MoreThe Office of Federal Procurement Policy has revamped the Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting in an effort to align the program with the Pentagon’s certification services for defense acquisition personnel, FCW reported
MoreA new Government Accountability Office report has found what auditors call lapses in the way the Defense Department adopts portfolio management techniques to assess its acquisition programs for weapon systems. GAO said in an August
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The General Services Administration has announced its plans to test two types of pre-competed information technology products through the GSA AdvantageSelect online portal. Erville Koehler, regional commissioner for the Federal Acquisition Service
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A new Government Accountability Office report has found that 75 percent of contracts for goods and services awarded through the Federal Supply Schedules program were competed in fiscal year 2014. Forty-percent of those
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Tom Sharpe, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, has announced plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the 17 hallways FAS has rolled out in its Common Acquisition Platform,
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