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Army deploys first fruits of agile acquisition process
Hundreds of pieces of equipment the Army has assembled as part of its new network modernization strategy will deploy with soldiers to Afghanistan on Oct. 1, the first results of the Army's transition to capability set management.
Tags: DoD , Army , Network Integration Evaluation , Fort Bliss , John Morrison , John Hughes , Genaro Dellarocco , agile acquisition , WIN-T , Nett Warrior , Jared Serbu
Should contractors 'cast a wary eye' on FedBid reverse auctions?
Larry Allen, the president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss why he sees investment in FedBid as a dubious development.
Tags: contracting , industry , FedBid , reverse auctions , Larry Allen , Allen Federal Business Partners , In Depth , Francis Rose
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Tags: NCMA , contracting , GCMC , Jan Frye , VA , industry , Stan Soloway , PSC , BAE Systems , Charlie Chadwick , Tom Temin , Amy Morris
OFPP Administrator Daniel Gordon leaving
The administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy will join the George Washington University Law School as an associate dean. Gordon spent two years at OFPP working on a variety of issues from improving the workforce to reducing the use of high risk contracts to advocating for more collaboration between industry and government.
Tags: Dan Gordon , OMB , OFPP , contracting , Jack Lew , George Washington University Law School , acquisition workforce , service contracting , Mythbusters , Jason Miller , Chief Acquisition Officer
DoD reassures Congress it is fixing contingency contracting
Senior defense leaders told Congress they've already made huge steps toward implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting. Former members of the panel say DoD still has a lot of work to do.
Tags: DoD , Congress , Senate , Commission on Wartime Contracting , Dov Zakheim , Katherine Schinasi , Claire McCaskill , Frank Kendall , Brooks Bash , management , Jared Serbu , Iraq , Afghanistan
Industry group warns of bleakest IT budget in 17 years
The government's IT budget hasn't been squeezed this hard since Forrest Gump was on the big screen in 1994. In the next five years, agencies will focus their spending on mission-critical technology. They're also finding ways to save money though nontraditional contracts and IT consolidation, a survey by the industry group TechAmerica Foundation found.
Tags: technology , IT , TechAmerica Foundation , Dan Heinemeier , robert haas , budget , consolidation , cybersecurity , cloud computing , mobile , Emily Kopp
