Raytheon assesses, repairs Navy jam-proof communications system

Raytheon Co. will provide the Navy with communications logistics support for its Extremely High Frequency Satellite Program under a $51.6 million contract.

  • By David Hubler

The dark side of DOD's acquisition reform bid

Tech initiatives could be at risk in DOD's tug of war between efficiency and spending.

  • By Amber Corrin

GAO will finish its bid protest work

The Defense Information Systems Agency contended that GAO's authority to review certain bid protests ended on May 27, leaving Technatomy’s protest without merit.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Ginman officially named director of defense procurement policy

Richard Ginman takes place of Shay Assad in defense procurement policy, as Assad moves to pricing policies.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

New ethics language needed for 'at-risk' federal contracts

The Administrative Conference of the United States is considering a proposal that would require new federal acquisition language on certain types of federal contracts defined to be at special risk.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

10 lessons to pull back the veil on government spending

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board oversaw the spending and tracking of money from the 2010 economic stimulus law, and it impressed many people inside government and outside. Now, it's the model for the future.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Marines go shopping for $880M worth of new computers

The Marine Corps is planning to spend $880 million to buy more than 400,000 desktop and laptop computers as well as a smaller number of commercial and rugged tablet computers through a five-year Marine Corps Common Hardware Suite procurement contract.

  • By David Hubler

How smaller budget may mean more business

Budget cuts might create more business for systems integrators. What three trends must you understand?

  • By Janet Kumpu

Oklahoma program pays primes for job creation

A new program in Oklahoma will pay prime contractors cash for bringing jobs to the state.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Offensensitivity: Are you joking?

FCW cartoonist John Klossner recounts his adventure trying to make a joke about a very grim topic.

Federal IT leaders receive AFFIRM awards

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and other government executives were honored at AFFIRM's leadership awards luncheon.

  • By Alyah Khan

New NASA priorities open billions in new opportunities

As NASA reduces its focus on space operations, opportunities in other science and technology areas will grow.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Lockheed might outsource F-35 to Japan

As part of its sales pitch to Japanese buyers, Lockheed Martin said it would consider building some of the fighter jets in Japan.

  • By Washington Technology staff

DOD increases scrutiny of contractor pricing

New pricing chief Shay Assad says the Defense Department is going to pay more attention to how much it pays for goods and services.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Has Obama administration dropped the ball on performance-based acquisition?

Steve Kelman traces continuity of management approaches through three presidential administrations.

Senior Army acquisition official resigns

Michael O'Neill abruptly resigned from his position as assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Shay Assad becomes director of defense pricing

Shay Assad, a senior procurement policy official at the Defense Department, is now the director of defense pricing.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

GTSI wins $450M to bring the FAA better IT

GTSI is tasked with bringing cost-saving IT services to the Federal Aviation Administration as part of the SAVES program.

  • By David Hubler

Are inventories of service contracts worthless?

Some agency officials worry that their inventories of service contracts will never be used for anything meaningful.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Competition suffers with shift to federal R&D centers

More agency are looking to federally funded R&D centers as alternative to contracts. The idea hurts competition and is a blow to transparency.

  • By Stan Soloway
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