DC weighs layoffs and other cuts as House Republicans leave the city budget in limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development. But she couldn’t help fielding a string of questions about the budget crisis hanging over the nation’s capital city. Asked Monday about the risk of layoffs and furloughs, she said: “We’re hoping that we […]
Lockheed Secures $180M Navy Contract Modification for F-35 Aircraft Parts
Image by Military_Material from Pixabay Lockheed Martin has received a $180 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to procure parts, materials and components to support the conversion of three F-35 production aircraft to flight science replacement planes. Scope of Contract Action The Department of Defense said Monday the new flight science aircraft will help […]
Industry has something to say about that rewrite of the buying rules
The now infamous rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, all 2,000 pages of it, the government has a lot of work to do. But the result will have the most effect on contractors. For whether they’ll have any say in the rewrite and what they would say, The Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to […]
FDA seeks contractors to replace dozens of feds laid off two weeks ago
The Food and Drug Administration is putting together plans to hire contractors to replace the duties of some federal employees terminated two weeks ago. FDA’s reduction in force (RIF) in early April included the elimination of all employees who worked on coordinating travel plans and logistics for FDA inspectors. About one week after FDA announced […]
Two EOs continue biggest overhaul of federal acquisition since 1990s
The Trump administration is attempting to reshape the federal acquisition process in a way that hasn’t been seen since the 1990s. Not since Congress and the Clinton administration passed two seminal bills, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA), into law has there been an effort to modernize and […]
NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster
The Navy’s Catapult program is finding success in bridging the “valley of death” in the small business innovation research program. The initiative is a path for Navy commands or organizations to find previous SBIR awardees and take advantage of their technologies today. Shadi Azoum, the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command’s program manager for the small […]
HUD headquarters up for sale, as Trump administration downsizes federal office space
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is planning to move out of its downtown Washington, D.C. headquarters, as the Trump administration plans for a massive downsizing of federal office space. The General Services Administration is once again adding HUD’s headquarters, the Robert C. Weaver Building, to a growing list of federal buildings marked for […]
What contractors need to do now to prepare for terminations for convenience
When the government terminates a contract for convenience, the contractor has certain rights and responsibilities. To find out how contractors can prepare in the current environment, Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton spoke with Rogers Joseph O’Donnell contract attorney, Stephen Bacon, on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, to find out more about what contractors should […]
IRS axes flexible work schedules, rejects many ‘deferred resignation’ applications
The IRS gave employees another chance to accept a “deferred resignation” offer and leave the federal workforce later this year. But the agency is preventing many employees from accepting the offer because their work is deemed “critical” to its operations. The IRS is exempting some enforcement personnel, but these exemptions are not across the board. […]
Combating collusive fraud in procurement
This week’s Off the Shelf focuses on the mission of the Department of Justice’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force (the PCSF). The PCSF is charged with coordinating the national response to antitrust and related crimes in procurement and grant programs at the federal, state and local levels. Daniel Glad and Sandra Talbott, Procurement Collusion Task Force […]