A number of contracting reforms are taking shape. After months of stops and starts, it appears that a handful of "accountability in contracting" measures will be heading to conference as part of the Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2008.
The growth rates of the federal IT budget and growth among the publicly traded federal IT services firms have been slowing on average since the Iraq war began because funds allocated to the war have not fully covered the costs and usually have been delayed.
Mention the word kickback and visions spring to mind of dealmakers offering Rolexes. But government procurement policy-makers will soon be grappling with much more nuanced market behaviors, courtesy of three whistle-blower cases filed by DOJ.
Fed up with mounting cybersecurity breaches at DHS, legislators brought their frustrations to bear on CIO Scott Charbo June 20, accusing him of not doing his job.
DHS yesterday postponed a requirement for U.S. travelers to show passports or the new government-issued passenger ID card upon returning home at land or sea borders until the summer of 2008.
