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Defense Contracting
November 2020
Trends in OTA Spending Raise Questions
By Jon HarperThe use of other transaction authority agreements, or OTAs, by the Pentagon continues to ramp up. The uptick raises a number of important questions about how these trends will ultimately shape the future of defense acquisitions, analysts say. -
Defense Contracting
November 2020
Air Force Steering Investment Capital into Small Businesses
The Air Force is trying to bolster and expand its innovation base by steering investment capital into small businesses and nontraditional firms and making sure contracting officers pay more attention to non-primes, officials say. -
Defense Contracting
October 2020
Defense Contractors Could Fall Under Trump ‘Divisive Concepts’ Executive Order
By Lindsay Burke , Jennifer Plitsch and Carolyn RashbyOn Sept. 22, President Donald Trump issued the “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” establishing requirements aimed at “promoting unity in the federal workforce,” by prohibiting workplace training on “divisive concepts,” including “race or sex stereotyping” and “race or sex scapegoating” as newly-defined in the order. -
October 2020
Showdown Looms on Cost Accounting Standards
By Peter Hutt II and Peter TerenzioThe Federal Circuit’s decision in The Boeing Company v. United States clears the way for resolution of Boeing’s substantive challenge to a controversial Federal Acquisition Regulation provision that can give the government windfall recoveries in Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) matters. -
Defense Contracting
September 2020
Industry Expanding Presence in Texas
Army contractors and academic institutions are increasing their footprint in the Lone Star State, setting up sites across Texas to support Army modernization initiatives. -
Defense Department
September 2020
Acquisition Reform Requires Cultural Change
By John Kovach and Artie MabbettAccording to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, “despite sustained progress in scientific knowledge, recent productivity growth in the U.S. has been disappointing.” -
Defense Contracting
September 2020
The Shape of the Federal Sale
By Gene MoranBusiness development and sales teams can labor for years nurturing a federal sale to maturity. -
Defense Department
September 2020
COVID-19 NEWS: Defense Contractors Will Have to Wait Months for Reimbursements
By Jon HarperCompanies in the defense industry will have to wait five months or more before they are reimbursed for extra costs they’ve incurred due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said Sept. 9. -
Defense Department
July 2020
VIEWPOINT: Trusted Capital Marketplace Protects DoD Supply Chain
By Ellen LordAmerica’s open investment environment allows the world to invest in our country, promotes the exchange of ideas and grows a dynamic economy. -
Defense Department
July 2020
JUST IN: Pentagon Expects 7,500 Companies CMMC Certified by 2021
The Defense Department is estimating that 7,500 companies in its industrial base will hold certifications in its new cybersecurity requirements by 2021, an official said July 22.
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