Recent federal audits found some serious deficiencies in contracting at the Veterans Affairs Department, including the procurement practices that let ineligible contractors win work.
Thanks, in part, to the limelight that procurement spending is getting nowadays, small businesses received the largest two-year increase in contracts in more than a decade.
The fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act contains more than two dozen significant procurement-related provisions. Some raise serious concerns, others raise questions, and still others could have positive results.
An IT executive argues for four critical elements that should remain after Vivek Kundra, the nation's first chief information officer, departs in August for Harvard.
House members have asked the Appropriations Committee chairman to keep funding bills free from “provisions inhibiting the utilization of the private sector.”
The Obama administration and Congress have a number of plans to cut DOD's costs and increase contract oversight, but there's little connection between them all.
