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Suspension and debarments rise amid pressure from Congress
Agencies are making greater use of their ability to declare contractors and individuals ineligible for work by the federal government. Some outside experts suggest the increase may be the result of hasty decisions.
Tags: Inside the Worlds Biggest Buyer , contracting , industry , suspension and debarment , Air Force , Crowell and Moring , Venable , McKenna, Long and Aldridge , Angela Styles , Rob Burton , Fred Levy , Normand Lussier , Steven Shaw , Jared Serbu
DLA combines plants and microchips to fight counterfeits
The Defense Logistics Agency recently sponsored a program to tag microchips with plant DNA. It was so successful that the DLA is adding a second phase.
Tags: Chris Metz , counterfeit parts , DNA , contracting , Federal Drive
Online tool lets VA employees conceive career paths
John Sepulveda, the Veterans Affairs Department assistant secretary for human resources and administration, said the portal lets employees assess their skill gaps and create a plan to move up the career ladder. HUD and DLA also have initiatives to create high performing employees and organizations.
Tags: workforce , VA , John Sepulveda , Brad Bunn , HUD , Karen Newton Cole , retention , training , high performance organization , FedSMC Conference , Jason Miller
Military sorts through material from Iraq drawdown
Twila Gonzales, director of disposition services at Defense Logistics Agency, explains how the military decides what it should keep and what it should destroy from the material brought out of Iraq.
Tags: Twila Gonzales , DoD , Iraq , State , Federal Drive
Contract Excellence
Tags: contract , Pentagon , Tim Freihofer , Joint Contingency Acquisition Support
DLA guidance focuses on efficiencies
Defense Logistics Agency Director has a new 2011 Director's Guidance, which refocuses the agency's goals with an emphasis on increasing efficiencies and savings in accordance with Defense Department requirements. Details from DLA's Fred Baillie.
Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , DLA , Fred Baillie , 2011 Director's Guidance
Defense bill nudges toward outsourcing
Several outsourcing-friendly provisions made their way into the Defense authorization bill approved by the House of Representatives last week. The bill would lift a moratorium on public-private competitions via the A-76 process in DoD, and expresses the sense of Congress that DoD should insource only those jobs which are inherently governmental.
Tags: DoD , contracting , industry , OMB , inherently governmental , insourcing , outsourcing , A-76 , competition , Lexington Institute , Center for Strategic and International Studies , Carlyle Group , Frank Finelli , David Berteau , John Conger , Redding Hobby , Dan Goure , Jared Serbu
DLA deploying enterprise contracting system
After 10 years of development and planning, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Defense Department's primary purchaser of almost everything besides weapons systems, is beginning to roll out a new enterprisewide system to automate the writing and management of the thousands of contract actions it processes each day.
Tags: DoD , contracting , technology , Bob Foster , Mike Claffey , Enterprise Resource Planning , EProcurement , Jared Serbu , DoD Report
Wartime contracting review underway in Afghanistan
The Defense Logistics Agency is looking into small business contracts
Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Defense , Commission on Wartime Contracting ,
Contract Excellence
Tags: Pentagon , Tim Freihofer , contract , Joint Contingency Acquisition Support
