COMMENTARY
The defense budget draw down of the late 1980s offers important lessons of what to do and not do with today's budget crisis.
- By Stan Soloway
- Mar 22, 2012
COMMENTARY
Improved communications is necessary to achieve cost reductions and efficiencies at the Defense Department, writes Stan Soloway of the Professional Services Council.
- By Stan Soloway
- Oct 07, 2010
Government agencies and contractors should set aside their heated competition over skilled workers to keep costs down and prevent excessive turnover.
- By Stan Soloway
- Jun 04, 2009
COMMENTARY
Too many government officials espouse solutions that don't consider the complexity of the problem.
- By Stan Soloway
- Mar 23, 2011
OPINION
Agencies are increasingly forcing companies to present lower and lower prices on contracts at the risk of long-term value.
- By Stan Soloway
- Oct 01, 2012
COMMENTARY
Recent actions undermine efforts to maintain a strong cadre of acquisition employees, says Stan Soloway, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council.
- By Stan Soloway
- Apr 05, 2010
The Center for American Progress is advocating that contracts be awarded based on compliance with labor laws and who pays fair and reasonable wages.
- By Stan Soloway
- Oct 08, 2009
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction issued a massive report in December, which concluded that the U.S. engagement in Iraq was marked, and to an extent doomed, from the beginning by an under-resourced and undermanned infrastructure.
- By Stan Soloway
- Jan 19, 2009
COMMENTARY
A long-awaited Defense Department proposal on how to manage organizational conflicts of interest could have an enormous effect across the industry that supports DOD.
- By Stan Soloway
- Dec 09, 2009
COMMENTARY
Quadrennial reviews expected from the Defense and State departments might offer insights into the role contractors will play in helping the departments fulfill their missions.
- By Stan Soloway
- Jan 27, 2010
COMMENTARY
A Defense Department initiative designed to improve the acquisition process must strike a fair balance between risk and reward to ensure the health of the defense industry, writes Stan Soloway with the Professional Services Council.
- By Stan Soloway
- Dec 02, 2010
The savings from insourcing that defense and civilian agencies are expected to report to Congress next February will be largely illusory.
- By Stan Soloway
- Oct 29, 2009
COMMENTARY
The disconnects around how the government buys and what it needs make innovation and efficiency harder to achieve, writes Stan Soloway.
- By Stan Soloway
- Nov 28, 2011
COMMENTARY
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
- May 31, 2011
The idea of using protests as part of a government sales strategy is a disturbing concept.
- By Stan Soloway
- Feb 26, 2009