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Troubled federal procurement data systems to get facelift
GSA will award a contract to create a new enterprise architecture by the end of October. The agency's goal is to consolidate eight disparate systems to make it easier to access procurement data. The current systems are not interoperable and plagued with long-standing problems.
Tags: contracting , Vivek Kundra , Sen. Robert Bennett , William Woods , OMB , OFPP , GAO , GSA , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , FPDS , AOCS , PPIRS , Excluded Parties List System
Embassy guard scandal brews in Afghanistan
New allegations have surfaced concerning mismanagement and lewd misconduct among security guards who are supposed to be protecting the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The charges, leveled by a D.C. based 'good government' group, are prompting new scrutiny of the Armor Group North America diplomatic security contract by the State Department and a Senate oversight committee.
Tags: mngt , security , State Department , U.S. Embassy , Afghanistan , Danielle Brian , Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
