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SBA resets some small business goals for 2025

[ad_1] Agencies have some new small business contracting goals for fiscal 2025 and they are more in line with traditional targets. The Small Business Administration specifically reset the small disadvantaged business goals, requiring agencies to at least award 5% of all contracts to these firms. The SBA updated these goals on Jan. 24 assigning every […]

Acquisitions paused at GSA; Maybe the Army?

[ad_1] The General Services Administration has suspended any new GSA-funded obligations, including new awards, task and delivery orders, modifications and options until further notice. GSA acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian wrote in a memo from Jan. 24 that there are nine exceptions to this suspension of acquisitions. “This short-term pause will permit the new leadership to […]

Financial management QSMO growing in use, providers

[ad_1] There are roughly 47 financial management systems that are considered in need of modernization. That is down from the 56 that needed updating in 2021. The reason for the improvements can directly be traced to the efforts by the Financial Management Quality Service Management Office. “The FM QSMO has really evolved into its role […]

IT modernization is evolving. It’s time to take another look

[ad_1] This content is provided by Deloitte. Over half a century ago mainframe COBOL helped send men to the moon. Since then it has been used to develop and operate a myriad of government systems.  It is so prevalent that currently, 75% of the world’s financial transactions are processed though COBOL systems, according to Chris […]

Harnessing power of AI to improve CX, manage unstructured data

[ad_1] Agencies now have more than 1,700 uses cases for artificial intelligence. The latest data from the Office of Management and Budget shows a more than 100% increase in the number of ways agencies are using these emerging capabilities. The departments of Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and Interior are among the agencies with the largest […]

Making vote.gov accessible to all voters

[ad_1] Federal laws protect voting rights for people with disabilities, but many people with disabilities experience barriers to voting, leading to lower voting rates.  After the November 2022 midterm elections, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) estimated that if voters with disabilities had voted at the same rates as voters without disabilities, there would be around […]

Why contractors are fuming at what’s going on at USAID

[ad_1] The Department of Government Efficiency has focused heavily on the U.S. Agency for International Development. It sent thousands of employees home and took the agency name off the door. Now USAID contractors are left with lots of unpaid invoices. David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, joined the Federal Drive with Tom […]