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President-elect Donald Trump watched four F-35s fly over the Army-Navy Game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Forty-eight hours later, he fired off a tweet that would cost the company that built the F-35 nearly $4 billion.
DoD is tightening the reins on the research money it gives out to companies. The Pentagon is receiving some backlash for it.
Agencies will know later this month how much more they will have to pay for security clearances to the National Background Investigations Bureau. The NBIB will meet initial operating capability on Oct. 1 and begin processing all security clearance cases.
After a six year decline in spending, budgets have begun to bounce back in 2016, and contract spending is expected to follow that upturn shortly after as the trend continues into 2017.
Nat Wood, the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection’s Division of Consumer and Business Education, said the agency expanded IdentityTheft.gov in response to President Obama’s 2014 Executive Order on securing online transactions.
DoD's top procurement official said the laws keeping government officials from moving to the private sector are too stringent.
DoD released a proposed rule that will require companies to give the Pentagon more information about IR&D projects.
DoD is asking stakeholders for their input on a rule that would raise the barrier for independent research and development funds.
Consolidation and new company formation has become a steady drumbeat in the federal market. In the latest megadeal, Leidos is taking on the Information Systems and Global Solutions division from Lockheed. What does it mean for the market and for federal customers? For analysis, Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Arun Sankaran, managing director of market research company Govini.
Lockheed Martin is spinning off its Information Systems & Global Solutions unit and merging it with engineering company Leidos in order to double down on its defense and aerospace holdings.
Stephen Morris, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, said the five-year effort to build the Next Generation Identification system (NGI) has delivered on its promises and then some, giving examiners faster and more accurate processing of fingerprints and other biometrics.
The Defense Logistics Agency is trying to expand the way it uses performance-based logistics to better the products used by service members.
Establishing insider threat programs was a key Defense recommendation after the 2013 Navy Yard shootings. Some companies that do business with the government are far ahead and waiting for agencies to catch up. DoD officials now consider aerospace giant Lockheed Martin's program as a model.
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