Contractor jobs, as well as military and civilian government roles, will be cut as a new, leaner organization focuses on training and education, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of Joint Forces Command, says.
The new National Security Space Strategy outlines how the U.S. government will manage its space industrial base, defend its space assets and share space-based resources with allies.
General Dynamics Corp. and Hewlett Packard Co. will provide network and data center services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a pair of contracts that have a combined value of more than $151 million.
The Defense Department relies heavily on contractors, but can't get an accurate count on the contractors it employs, a GAO report says. Workforce management decisions suffer.
A revised rule on contractors' internal controls have differences in definitions, which can bring about unintended consequences, and problems with excessive payment penalties due to resources.
Reductions to personnel, IT and major weapons programs are DOD targets as the Pentagon faces $13 billion less than requested in the fiscal 2012 budget.
SRA International Inc. will provide logistics and other support services to the Defense Department Special Operations Command under a five-year task order valued at $15.3 million.
In a major revision, the new rule on organizational conflicts of interest tells contracting officers to minimize the risk of conflicts in a variety of ways, but in doing so, not limit the pool of potential advisors with broad restrictions.
TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has won a five-year Defense Department contract worth approximately $49 million to provide the DOD’s military and civilian personnel with on-site computer network operations training in support of the government’s cybersecurity workforce development efforts.
