Contracts

OMB: new acquisition rule coming for vendors to vouch for their software security

Agencies are also allowed to accept to-do lists from vendors who need to keep working up to a point where they can self-attest their compliance with NIST guidance.

  • By Mariam Baksh
Contracts

White House team unveils new recommendations for U.S. semiconductor industry growth

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology introduced new advice to help successfully implement the CHIPS Act and develop an advanced U.S. semiconductor market.

  • By Alexandra Kelley
Contracts

A new regulation will bolster procurement for tribal businesses

The Interior Department’s final rule advances the president’s executive order on equity.

  • By Courtney Bublé
Companies

White House order covers contractor pay equity

The Biden administration issued an executive order on Tuesday calling on the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to create new regulations around the use of past compensation in employment decisions.

  • By Chris Riotta, FCW

Lockheed Martin will not give sequestration notice of mass layoffs

Contractors are not required to give advance notice of mass layoffs or facility closures before sequestration kicks in, with such costs being deemed allowable by the White House's recent guidance.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Obama signs Sequestration Transparency Act

A new measure requires the Obama administration to provide to Congress detailed plans for the forced budget cuts that sequestration will bring.

  • By Amber Corrin

Partisan fighing mars sequestration hearing

As a hearing intended to help prepare for the effects of sequestration degenerates into a partisan shouting match, one embarrassed congressman calls the event a 'spectacle.'

  • By Amber Corrin

Inside Obama's digital strategy

The government's push for more mobile access to information will impact devices, policies and infrastructures, but will it be good for business?

  • By Michael Hardy

Chopra returns to consulting firm

Former Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra has returned to the firm where he previously spent nearly 10 years.

Federal CIO details IT forecast

Most IT investments will go toward modernization efforts and cybersecurity, according to Steven VanRoekel.

  • By Camille Tuutti

White House aide Tom Gavin to join IT trade group

Tom Gavin, special assistant to the president, is heading to the Information Technology Industry Council.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Chopra to step down

White House announces the federal CTO is planning a departure.

  • By Camille Tuutti

White House schedules Tweetup during SOTU

Followers of the @WhiteHouse Twitter account are being invited to the White House to live-tweet during the State of the Union speech.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

OMB's Lew to take over as White House chief of staff

OMB head to become Obama's right hand.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Obama, Panetta outline $489B in defense cuts

The administration plans to shift the Pentagon's focus from ground wars to rebuilding and deterrence while preserving innovation and partnership with industry.

  • By Amber Corrin

Deal reached to avert shutdown with only hours to spare

A late-night deal avoided a partial government shutdown, the fifth such occasion this year.

  • By Camille Tuutti

Kundra 'IT cartel' remarks raise ire of contractor professionals

Former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra provoked an outcry with an editorial claiming that major federal contractors are holding back progress in updating federal technology.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Rare 5.9 earthquake shakes up D.C. federal buildings

"Did you feel it?" was the question that boomeranged around Twitter in thousands of tweets after an unusually strong earthquake hit Virginia about 90 miles from Washington, D.C.

  • By Alice Lipowicz and Matthew Weigelt

Kundra claims he started to close the IT gap

Vivek Kundra, the first federal CIO, offers some parting thoughts on public service.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Tech companies to offer jobs, training to unemployed vets

IT companies pledge to answer the president's challenge to help 100,000 vets.

  • By Washington Technology staff
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