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Fed contracting community waits to see who fills Murtha's shoes
The death earlier this week of Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha has left open one of the most important jobs on Capitol Hill: chairman of the powerful House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. A Washington state lawmaker is the front-running candidate for the job.
Tags: management , budget , Pentagon , John Murtha , Norm Dicks , House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee , Steny Hoyer , Professional Services Council , Max Cacas
Acquisition workforce is in need of leadership, training
Survey finds few areas have improved since 2006
Tags: contracting , Professional Services Council , DoD , JM , OFPP , Grant Thornton , Diane Denholm , Performance based contracting , acquisition workforce , oversight
Could DCAA proposals have led to big savings?
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss recent speculation that the Defense Department ignored proposals from the Defense Contract Audit Agency nearly two years ago.
Tags: contracting , acquisition , DoD , DCAA , PSC , POGO
Countdown: IT reform, DoD funding and 'Treasure Cheese'
Dan Chenok of the IBM Center for the Business of Government and Alan Chvotkin of the Professional Services Council join Francis Rose to count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Tags: Federal News Countdown , In Depth , Francis Rose , Dan Chenok , Professional Services Council , IBM Center on the Business of Government ,
DoD cyber strategy aims at deterrence
The Defense Department will focus its energies on trying to make its IT systems so hard to penetrate that adversaries won't bother trying. The Pentagon barely mentions offensive capabilities in its new cyber strategy.
Tags: DoD , industry , cybersecurity , William Lynn , James Cartwright , James Langevin , Professional Services Council , technology , information sharing , defense industrial base , Jared Serbu
Could you face fines under Buy American Act?
The Buy American Act was originally passed in 1933 to protect American jobs and companies.
Tags: Professional Services Council , In Depth
Contractors need to do homework before shutdown
A panel of experts said contractors should prepare for a potential government shutdown by figuring out how their specific contracts would be affected in such a scenario. Step one, they said, is for vendors to talk with their agency contracting officers.
Tags: contracting , management , shutdown , budget , White House , continuing resolution , Congress , OMB , Professional Services Council , John Cooney , Barry Anderson , Jared Serbu
GSA spearheads effort to green the supply chain
The General Services Administration is working to conform to a Presidential order mandating that companies who sell goods and services to the Federal government reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Ten months after that order was issued, GSA now has a green light from the White House to proceed with a voluntary, phased-in, incentive-driven program to get companies who sell to GSA to report their greenhouse gas footprint. And one industry trade group weighs in on the recommendations.
Tags: management , contracting , GSA , White House , Executive Order 13514 , Steve Leeds , sustainability , PSC , Max Cacas
OFPP previews the future of in and outsourcing
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is recommending all agencies use only the definition of inherently governmental as defined in the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act, and create a test to determine whether other jobs should be done only by federal employees. OFPP's Dan Gordon has details.
Tags: Federal Drive , contracting , Dan Gordon , OFPP , inherently governmental , Professional Services Council , insourcing , outsourcing
'Inherently Governmental' still too fuzzy say contractors
The Professional Services Council is concerned that agencies could misinterpreted the policy letter as a mandate to insource. PSC's Alan Chvotkin explains why.
Tags: Federal Drive , inherently governmental , OFPP , insourcing , contracting , Professional Services Council ,
