President Obama will direct the OMB, Treasury Department and other federal agencies to block contractors who are delinquent on their taxes from winning new government contracts. He also plans to direct the IRS to review the tax returns of contractors. The President will also call on Congress to grant the government more authority to deny [...]
As we enter this new decade, we are faced with many questions. Where is government contracting moving? What will be the priorities in the next few years? We had the chance to catch up with Bill James, Vice President and Director of Business Development at TechTeam, to ask him some of these questions. We learned [...]
As we embark on 2010, and this new decade, we ponder the question: how will government contracting change? Will the priorities shift at all? We had the opportunity to speak with James Ballard, Senior Vice President and Chief of Global Services Group for 21st Century Solutions. He shared with us his thoughts on who will [...]
Although hard to believe, it’s been one year since the Obama administration came to office. In that time, Greg Myers took on his current role as general manager of Microsoft’s Federal Civilian and Healthcare Sales. Over the past 10 months in particular, Myers has steered Microsoft’s civilian and healthcare teams to ensure their approach aligns [...]
For anyone with a bone to pick about defense contracting, it’s a familiar quote to cite: Back in 1961, during his farewell address to the nation, Dwight Eisenhower warned, “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” But there’s another part of that speech, often overlooked, [...]
Leaders from major defense contracting firms met with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to discuss the importance of fulfilling contracts on time and on budget, while being assured the relationship between the federal government and defense contractors will continue to benefit both parties down the road. Attendees included executives from contracting powerhouses Northrup Grumman, Lockheed [...]
Following incidents at Abu Ghraib, rendition claims and reports of US ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques, the subject of US interrogation techniques and tactics has come to the forefront in recent years. President Obama has promised to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the focal point of much criticism regarding US interrogation methods. Matthew Alexander, a former [...]
