The House Homeland Security Committee has published its first online newsletter highlighting opportunities at DHS as a way to help small business contractors.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has approved a bill, after amending it, that would close a loophole in dealing with contractors in acquisition regulations.
If your organization doesn't have a formal and proactive ethics and compliance program, now is the time to establish one. It's not a matter of whether you trust your employees to do the right thing. It is a matter of educating them so they will know expected ethical behavior.
One comment I often hear lately about the financialmarkets is that their volatility has increased. Theincreased volatility is an indicator of uncertainty, causinginvestors to react quickly to each piece of financial,economic or political news.
In a world that is flat, trade laws can make all the difference.This is as true in public procurement as in the software, steel orwheat markets. For non-U.S. companies, there is increasinginterest in tapping into the U.S. public-contracting market.
Whether or not the recent Federal Communications Commission auction of the 700-MHz band being vacated by TV broadcasters was a success depends on your criteria.
But legislators wonder if the proposal is necessary with regulators close to finalizing changes in acquisition regulations to deal with the same issue.
IBM's agreement to withdraw its protest of an EPA contract will enable CGI Federal, which originally won the contract last year, to help the agency modernize its financial management system.
In more than 40 percent of purchases made using government purchase cards, agencies could not prove users followed the safeguards established to prevent abuse, a GAO report has found.
The FCC yesterday adopted an order allowing transmission of emergency alerts via text message to cell phone users nationwide, but the plan could falter without an agency to head it.
The Homeland Security Department's new rule for foreign students more than doubles the number of months that a foreign student may stay in the U.S. after graduation while applying for a work visa.
The Homeland Security Department's infrastructure and cyber units are interviewing candidates for more than 300 job openings, a top DHS official testified this week.
DHS ought to install more ground and air radars along the U.S.-Canada border and boost the number of manned and unmanned aircraft patrols over the area, Sen. Jon Tester has said.
The question of which functions can or should be performed by federal contractors has been the focus of increasing debate, including two congressional hearings held in early March. The issues involved are complex but timely.
