Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has resigned and withdrawn his name from consideration to hold the top Pentagon job. Trump announced that Army Secretary Mark Esper is taking over as acting defense secretary.
Contractors support establishment of a government body that can settle disputes between VA and DOD as they each implement new electronic health systems based on Cerner's software platform.
House appropriators are worried that the Pentagon's $10 billion single-award JEDI cloud contract will lock the department into the same cloud system for a generation despite ongoing improvements in technology.
DOD's top tech official says the protest delays that are slowing down the $10 billion JEDI procurement could add to DOD's challenge of managing its cloud environment.
Michael Wooten, a senior advisor on acquisitions at the Federal Student Aid office, was nominated by President Trump to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
With the clock running out on a continuing resolution funding multiple agencies, the White House and the Congress appear to be edging toward a deal -- but a lot can still go wrong.
It was just supposed to be a photo op but it turned into public squabble as President Donald Trump and top Democrats argued on camera about a possible government shutdown.
A group of Microsoft employees are lobbying the company to drop its pursuit of the $10 billion JEDI contract, saying what the company should not build technology used to wage war.
The House defense appropriations bill includes new reporting requirements on the JEDI project and the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud efforts.
Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie signed the deal naming Cerner as the sole-source software provider on the agency's health record modernization effort.
The Department of Defense reaped more than 1,000 comments on cloud procurement, including suggestions from technology trade groups to reshape its approach on a planned single-vendor cloud deal.
House leaders are scrapping a plan to extend government operations through mid-January while fully funding defense at 2018 levels, but it's not clear what will replace it.
