7:08 pm, June 18, 2013
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Top News
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Proposed commission would give teeth to cost-saving ideas but some lawmakers skeptical
- Feds outside the Beltway react to furloughs
- Contracting executives guilty of 8(a) program fraud
- EPA CIO Jackson returning to private sector
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 29-year-old NASA engineer going where no one has gone before
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- ICE Director John Morton stepping down
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
- IRS official contradicts claims about reviews
- House presses VA for more details after cyber attacks
- DoD maintains BRAC fight, despite opposition
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All Acquisition News
- An update on the NASA SEWP program
- The evolution of marketing
- GSA to review all internal contracting practices after latest IG report
- Lawmakers, industry press OFPP not to make strategic sourcing mandatory
- Defense Contractors fish overseas and new fracking regulations
- The keys to a successful procurement
- The top contractors in 2013
Acquisition Policy
- An update on the NASA SEWP program
- The evolution of marketing
- Lawmakers, industry press OFPP not to make strategic sourcing mandatory
- Defense Contractors fish overseas and new fracking regulations
- The keys to a successful procurement
- The top contractors in 2013
- Navy acquisition chief Branch discusses procurement strategies
Acquisition Workforce
- An update on the NASA SEWP program
- Defense Contractors fish overseas and new fracking regulations
- The keys to a successful procurement
- Navy acquisition chief Branch discusses procurement strategies
- All things SmartPay
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)
- The hot government contracting issues
CAO Council
- Agency CAOs fear budget woes put workforce at risk
- Agencies must better define roles of acquisition leaders
- Multiple roles more help than hindrance, say agency CAOs
- Survey: Who are the acquisition rockstars?
- Acquisition workforce, contract management top CAO priorities
- OFPP Administrator Daniel Gordon leaving
- OFPP boosts requirements for contracting reps
Contracting
- An update on the NASA SEWP program
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- The evolution of marketing
- Lawmakers, industry press OFPP not to make strategic sourcing mandatory
- Defense Contractors fish overseas and new fracking regulations
- DoD assures Congress contractors will share in the pain of sequestration
- The keys to a successful procurement
GSA
- GSA to review all internal contracting practices after latest IG report
- Lawmakers, industry press OFPP not to make strategic sourcing mandatory
- GSA's Rung to lead Office of Governmentwide Policy
- The keys to a successful procurement
- Inside the Reporter's Notebook: Some question who's in charge at GSA with six feds on admin leave
- GSA IG report blasts FAS managers for altering contracts
- GSA, Trump release plans for Old Post Office Building
Industry
- Furloughs , sequestration, five day delivery
- An update on the NASA SEWP program
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- The Dell Cloud for the U.S. Government
- The evolution of marketing
- NSA leak case gives vendors reason to reevaluate personnel
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
