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The 8a Certification Program Is Facing Uncertainty

The SBA 8a program, designed to support small businesses owned by racial or ethnic minorities, has faced criticism from a federal court. The 8(a) program is aimed at helping small businesses that are at least 51% owned and operated by a U.S. citizen who is socially and economically disadvantaged. In a significant development, a federal judge in Tennessee has […]

Pfizer’s 2025 Financial Outlook: A Corporate Powerhouse or a Market Mirage?

Pfizer’s financial outlook amid government contract shifts

The Tightrope Between Profit and Public Good Pfizer has long been a major player in the pharmaceutical industry, leveraging both innovation and strategic partnerships to maintain its market position. Pfizer is a behemoth. No question about it. The pharmaceutical titan, famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) for its COVID-19 treatments just dropped its 2025 […]

Time to restore some rationality to government purchase card policy

When the White House froze the government’s credit cards, it really gummed up the works. The long running purchase card program has saved untold millions of paperwork hours and saved the government billions of dollars. Here to inject some rational thinking about card usage, long-time federal procurement executive, and now a consultant, Shauna Weatherly. Tom […]

Agencies need to operationalize data where it lives

Data is at the heart of nearly every federal agency initiative. Without high quality data, the 1,700-plus agency artificial intelligence use cases will struggle to find success. Without analysis of structured and unstructured data, agency cybersecurity efforts, especially around zero trust, will not prevent and mitigate the ever-increasing number of cyber threats. For years, the […]

Cuts loom for agency funding libraries and museums, as Trump installs new leader

The largest source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country is facing major cuts to its operations. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a small, independent agency with approximately 75 employees, is expected to soon lose more than about half its workforce, and will be reduced to only core statutory […]

Draft EO would make GSA the center of most common buys

The White House wants to bring centralized procurement back to the government, returning agencies to  the pre-acquisition reform days of the 1990s for most common services and products. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order in the coming days that would put the General Services Administration in charge of buying all products […]

The VA’s leadership is making things happen for veterans

The VA’s leadership is making things happen for veterans Tens of thousands of veterans like me receive amazing care from the VA, in my case due to lung damage from a deployment during the first Gulf War. Henry Stoever March 21, 2025 6:14 pm 3 min read More than a decade after reports exposed gaping […]

ICE Issues Recompetition Notice for Analysis Services Contract

The Enforcement and Removal Operations division of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced a recompete for the firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of professional deployment, transformation and analysis services. Contract Scope According to a notice published Wednesday on the Acquisition Planning Forecast System, the ICE directorate is seeking a contractor capable of conducting analytical tasks […]

Hiring freeze to extend ‘at least’ through 2025, GSA tells employees

The White House’s Department of Government Efficiency has deployed teams to agencies across the federal government. But the acting head of the General Services Administration told employees there’s no DOGE team at the agency, contradicting reporting from many news outlets and observations from multiple agency employees. During a question-and-answer segment in an all-hands meeting Thursday, […]

Andrea Inserra Accepts 2025 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic

Andrea Inserra, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, was personally presented with the 2025 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award was founded by Garrettson in 2014 to pay tribute to the most influential personalities in the government contracting sector. The 100 executives from the public and private sector honored with the award […]