With 2.7 million federal employees on the platform, contractors who treat agency pages as intelligence feeds can grab a decisive advantage, writes marketing expert Mark Amtower.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had asserted that officials violated an earlier mandate regarding the disclosure of spending data.
The French government’s pressure on the Paris-based company over detention facility contracts has prompted the plan to divest the small but controversial unit.
“It’s dismaying,” one longtime anti-fraud expert told Nextgov/FCW of how the administration is using fraud as rationale but firing the watchdogs that are tasked with finding it.
GSA’s Larry Allen says training and backing up contracting officers are critical for getting the acquisition workforce to embrace new FAR flexibilities.
One former Air Force chief information officer starts a new role in the private sector, as does a former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency official.
The General Services Administration's new requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information apply immediately to new contracts, at the contracting officer's discretion.
Josh Lospinoso, a co-founder and Shif5's former chief executive, is transitioning out of day-to-day duties to focus more time and energy on longer-term planning.
Federal funding flows to research labs and prime contractors, but the companies best positioned to turn prototypes into production are starving for capital — and that's a strategic vulnerability the U.S. can't afford, writes Stephen Empedocles, CEO of Clark Street Associates.
This space startup co-founded by Bridgit Mendler, the former actress-turned entrepreneur, is pushing a smaller-form alternative array to traditional means as a way to scale out ground infrastructure.