I attended a briefing yesterday at our local NDIA Small Business meeting. The briefing was conducted by Doug Smith from the Air Force’s Space, C2 and Surveillance Division. Doug gave a very comprehensive...
I think everyone has heard of the issues of major corporation computers being hacked into and information stolen. The first big example I remember on this was last year during the holiday season when the...
The Department of Defense just released a document outlining the Guidelines For Creating and Maintaining a Competitive Environment for Supplies and Services in the Department of Defense. This document...
In June we talked about the release of the OASIS and OASIS SB contract for use by the government.
I saw an article in a Defense E-Brief from NDIA this week entitled “Pentagon Will Demand ‘Fair Prices’ From Commercial Vendors”. The essence of the article is that apparently the Defense Department is...
In a discussion with some associates a week ago I was surprised to hear they were not aware of the LPTA practice that is becoming more popular in evaluating government contract bids. First, let’s look...
Back in May I wrote a blog on the Small Business Administration’s Office of the Ombudsman. I had the opportunity to meet the National Ombudsman, Brian Castro, earlier this month. Brian is a busy man and...
This is a continuation of the last blog relating issues that were discussed in the Colorado Springs NDIA panel discussion. I thought these issues were relevant enough to devote 2 blogs to cover the...