Emily Murphy | After the storm
To say these are trying times at the General Services Administration would be an understatement. But for chief acquisition officer Emily Murphy, it is business as usual as she implements an ambitious program to better train and educate GSA's acquisition workforce'the lifeblood of the organization.
Incoming
The Air Force's IT modernization effort is moving forward rapidly, and the service should reach its targets for 2012 ahead of schedule, the Air Force CIO said recently.
Navy issues strategic sourcing policy for office supplies
Starting May 1, Navy employees will have to use the Defense Department's e-commerce Web portal to place office product orders.
Invest more in procurement workforce: Davis
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) wants the federal government to spend more money on training procurement officials, and suggests the creation of an exchange program where industry officials help train government-sector employees.
OMB clamps down on brand name specs in RFPs
The Office of Management and Budget has made its rule directing agencies not to use brand names in contract solicitations and requests for proposals part of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
OMB wants compliance with LOBs, e-gov in budget submissions
The Office of Management and Budget reminded agencies that they must demonstrate how they are implementing the administration's Lines of Business Consolidation Initiative in their fiscal 2008 budget proposals.
Health IT goes to war
Getting the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care system successfully deployed to the troops on the firing lines in Iraq was the responsibility of Maj. Kevin Watts, MC4's assistant product manager. The mission was accomplished.
The next bright idea
The roles government and industry play in innovative research have changed dramatically. Will America continue to lead the world in innovation?
XO spinoff beams broadband
Nextlink will market its wireless broadband service as a COOP solution.
Online extra | Security initiative looking for direction
The Office of Management and Budget plans to focus on training and Federal Information Security Management Act reporting over the next eight months under the Security Line of Business Consolidation initiative.
Online extra | Financial management ahead of the pack
The Office of Management and Budget hopes the Financial Management Line of Business initiative will improve the cost, quality and performance of agencies' financial systems.
Online extra | Justice to make Case Management more inclusive
While the Justice Department was bogged down in awarding a $305 million contract for its do-over case management system called Sentinel, the Line of Business Consolidation initiative for a similar effort was treading water.
Online extra | Federal Health Architecture gets Version 1.0 ready for release
The Federal Health Architecture, established in June 2003 as a Line of Business, aims to align federal health IT investments with the president's health IT plan.
Army awards communications contract
The Army has awarded DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., a $222 million contract to provide an integrated, open-standards communications infrastructure for the Multi-National Force-Iraq.
Bush names Education CFO
President Bush intends to nominate Lawrence Warder of Irving, Texas, to be chief financial officer at the Education Department.
The grants whisperer
At a conference a few years ago, Rebecca Spitzgo was milling about at the de rigueur social hour. It was her first day as program manager for Grants.gov, the e-government initiative that lets organizations apply online for more than $400 billion in federal grants.
The Pipeline
Has someone been eating my porridge?; Observing even more on your network
One for all
How do you pull together the entire acquisition community across the federal government to achieve an extraordinary degree of collaboration on a major cross-agency project? Ask Teresa Sorrenti. She's done it.
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