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Navy works on unmanned, undersea vehicles
Capt. Duane Ashton, the program manager for unmanned systems in the Navy's program executive office for Littoral Combat Ships. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the new device and how it furthers Navy's trend toward using more unmanned vessels.
Tags: contracting , industry , Duane Ashton , DoD , Navy , Littoral Combat Ship , General Dynamics , Federal Drive
With DoD budget cuts, what's the future of the F-35?
Winslow Wheeler is the director at the Straus Military Reform Project for the Center for Defense Information.
Tags: Winslow Wheeler , Center for Defense Information , DoD , F-35 Joint Strike Fighter , Air Force , Navy , Army , contracting , budget , In Depth
Dynamics Research Corporation on federal contracting landscape
DRC is a government contractor that provides services in management consulting, science, engineering and technology solutions.
Tags: Dynamics Research Corporation , Paul Strasser , contracting , Industry Chatter , industry , In Depth , technology , management
Bill would require greater use of strategic sourcing
The Acquisitions Reform Bill would require more robust use of Federal Strategic Sourcing vehicles — which allow the government to consolidate its shopping lists and buy in bulk, rather than have each agency pursue its own procurements.
Tags: acquisition policy , Scott Brown , Joe Lieberman , Susan Collins , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Commitee , strategic sourcing
How contractors can approach a bid protest and not antagonize the agency
Bill Welch is the chair of the Government Contracts Practice Group at General Counsel.
Tags: William Welch , Government Contracts Practice Group , contracting , bid protests , In Depth
Sens. McCain, McCaskill ask DoD to review ANC contracts
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have asked the Defense Department to review its ANC contracts and to provide detailed reports on all contracts more than $20 million that went to small businesses in the last five years.
Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Claire McCaskill , John McCain , Alaska Native Corporations , contracting , Congress , Senate , Federal Drive
Prime contractors must notify agencies of sub switches under new SBA rule
A new Small Business Administration rule would require prime contractors to notify agency contracting officers when there's a change in subcontractors from the original bid. Kenneth Dodds, an SBA attorney, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how the new rules would affect contractors and agencies.
Tags: acquisition policy , acquisition workforce , SBA , kenneth dodds , Federal Drive
Intelligence agencies to squeeze savings from IT, contractors
After a decade of uninterrupted spending growth, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has submitted budget cutting plans for intelligence agencies to the White House. The intelligence community will try to save money mostly through IT efficiencies, and will try to protect its civilian workforce while drawing down on its reliance upon contractors.
Tags: technology , IT , ODNI , intelligence , intelligence community , DIA , CIA , James Clapper , NSA , NGA , NRO , workforce , Jared Serbu
A tale of two (Maryland) schools
Host Mark Amtower is joined by Ellen Hemmerly, executive director of BWTech at the UMBC Research and Technology Park, and Capitol College President and CEO Mike Wood.
October 17, 2011(Encore presentation November 28, 2011)
Tags: contracting , ellen hemmerly , bwtech , UMBC , capitol college , Mike Wood , cybersecurity , Fort Meade , maryland cyber challenge , information technology , Mark Amtower , Amtower Off Center
Lawmakers want U.S. steel in military vehicles
Senator Jay Rockefeller and a group of seven other senators said they want Deputy Secretary Ash Carter to change how the DoD buys metal for military vehicles.
Tags: DoD Report , Jay Rockefeller , Congress , DoD Buzz , contracting , military vehicles , In Depth
