Charles Tiefer

In this April 7, 2020, photo, released by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who have tested negative for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, are checked at local hotels in Guam in an effort to implement social distancing. People in Guam are used to a constant U.S. military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from the coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures. (Mass Communication Specialist Julio Rivera/U.S. Navy via AP)

Navy turns heads by giving Huntington Ingalls a pass on COVID mandate

The move exempts tens of thousands of federal contractors from the federal vaccine mandate.

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Why DoD may have given Amazon every reason to protest JEDI

Defense

Left to right: Steve Schooner of the George Washington University, and Charles Tiefer of the University of Baltimore Law School, and Antonio Franco, a partner with PilieroMazza PLLC.

DoD’s win in federal court doesn’t mean JEDI is out of the woods, experts say

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GSA launches enhanced debriefing pilot, but why not make it permanent?

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - In this March 20, 2012, file photo, a plane flies over Oracle headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, a federal appeals court overturned a decision in a long-running legal battle over whether Google infringed on Oracle's Java programming language to build its hugely popular mobile operating system, Android. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Oracle, DoD face-off over cloud contract rests on single award rationale

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EPA ethics probe by OMB could put Pruitt in the hot seat

Congress

Charles Tiefer: Good idea to privatize parts of VHA?

Federal Drive

These are the big drivers of waste in defense modernization

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Charles Tiefer: What’s driving waste at the Pentagon?

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Charles Tiefer: A few examples of DoD’s most wasteful spending

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Charles Tiefer: More to NDAA veto than meets the eye

Charles Tiefer: NDAA reform a bad idea

The House of Representatives will vote this week on the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam…

Charles Tiefer: Paid sick-leave drama just beginning for federal contractors

Federal contractors might have to offer up to seven days of paid sick leave a year for their employees under a new executive order from President Barack…

Charles Tiefer, Law Professor, University of Baltimore

The Small Business Administration is proposing two new rule changes that the small business contracting community doesn’t like at all. The first proposal changes the standards for small business set asides and subcontracts. Charles Tiefer is a law professor at the University of Baltimore, and former commissioner of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he explained what’s going on.