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Industry group calls on changes to DoD authorization bill

Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, and Brenda Farrell, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at the ...

Federal News Network Staff

May 9, 2016 12:47 pm

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Pentagon Solutions - May 9, 2016

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Tucked into the National Defense Authorization bill for 2017 were to be two provisions that would change contract protests, and not in a way to be favorable industry. The Professional Services Council had asked the chairman and ranking members of the House Armed Services Committee to drop them. Alan Chvotkin, PSC’s executive vice president, joined Pentagon Solutions to discuss the bill and

In this heated election season, the Government Accountability Office has found that some military absentee voting bugaboos persist, and the brass needs to do more about it. Brenda Farrell, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at the GAO, has all the details.