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Registered Traveler set to go nationwide
07/24/08 -- 02:12 PM The Transportation Security Administration will expand Registered Traveler to all U.S. airports beginning next week and eliminate a TSA-conducted screening that it considers duplicative.
Meyerose: Enterprise software to drive info-sharing
07/24/08 -- 10:02 AM A new enterprise software licensing program will help knock down barriers to information sharing, while saving agencies money, said ODNI’s associate director of national and CIO.
Nimble contractors stand to gain in tight times
07/24/08 -- 09:25 AM With the changes in Congress and the presidency, and a tougher budget environment ahead, companies will have to be even more flexible and agile to maintain growth during the coming years.
GAO to GSA: Rely on pre-award audits for contract cost stability
07/23/08 -- 09:42 AM To keep prices stable on its Multiple Award Schedules contracts, GSA should continue to rely on pre-award audits as much as pricing policies, GAO officials told a Multiple Award Schedule Advisory Panel this week.
L-1 wins border-crossing card deal
07/22/08 -- 02:17 PM L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the State Department to issue border-crossing cards as part of an expansion to the U.S. Passport Card program.
TopOff 5 competition raises possible conflict of interest
07/21/08 -- 12:34 PM Two senators have alleged that FEMA officials are ignoring a potential conflict of interest and other possible ethics violations with regard to the multimillion-dollar contract.
Services council wants conflict rules updated
07/18/08 -- 03:54 PM The federal government’s regulations on organizational conflicts of interest in contracting need to be restructured to avoid a “one-size-fits-all” approach, PSC has recommended.
Thompson skeptical of TSA outsourcing strategy
07/18/08 -- 11:08 AM The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee requested information on 14 concerns about the outsourcing of management of TSA’s Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel Program.
Survey: ITAA ranks candidates on IT issues
07/17/08 -- 03:06 PM ITAA survey compares presumptive presidential candidates on a number of technology issues.
Bills would increase monitoring of contractors
07/17/08 -- 02:49 PM Leaders in the intelligence community would have to keep closer tabs on what contractors are doing in their agencies under bills pending in Congress.
OMB: Team effort needed on FISMA
07/17/08 -- 11:32 AM Contractors that supply agencies with outsourced services must work with those agencies to meet FISMA requirements, OMB said this week.
PSC: DOD’s pass-through rule needs work
07/16/08 -- 03:02 PM The Professional Services Council said the rule could be a burden for subcontractors.
GAO: FBI needs to refine cost controls for Sentinel
07/15/08 -- 04:32 PM The FBI must establish more stringent controls over contractor expenses on the $425 million Sentinel automated case-management system to keep close tabs on project costs, government auditors say.
Senate bill would boost Coast Guard’s in-house acquisition support
07/15/08 -- 04:04 PM The Senate Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2009 spending bill would give the Coast Guard funds to hire additional acquisition employees to help oversee the Deepwater program.
Report: DOD falls short on HSPD-12
07/14/08 -- 04:21 PM The Defense Department has failed in a number of ways to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, according to a new report.
States move swiftly to register medical volunteers
07/14/08 -- 04:03 PM At least 15 states are creating statewide electronic registries of medical volunteers with verified credentials, according to a new GAO report.
More rights for contractors under new task and delivery order provisions
07/14/08; Vol. 23, No. 12 Key provisions of the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act enhance the rights of government contractors under multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts. The new provisions add rigor and transparency to the procurement of task and delivery orders of more than $5 million.
No room for redundancies
07/14/08; Vol. 23, No. 12 Forest Service takes the ax to its duplicative services and systems.
Fine line between transparency and chaos
07/14/08; Vol. 23, No. 12 Transparency is essential to building credibility when dealing with public funds and the public trust, and numerous proposals now before Congress seek to enhance transparency in government contracting. Their essential
goal is laudable even though some of these proposals are driven by
a misperception that fraud is rampant in federal contracting — a
perception even the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction
has repeatedly challenged.
Globalization arrives at a crossroads
07/14/08; Vol. 23, No. 12 A number of recent significant cross-border transactions, regulatory actions, and domestic and international political developments have put globalization of government and defense into the cross hairs of the 2008 presidential election.
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