This is the year of aggressive competition. Tightening federal budgets, plus the insourcing push, are proving as much. But while many say government contracting is entering a lean, mean next couple years, there’s still plenty of market opportunity. The trick is knowing who’s changing the game — and setting the terms — so you can [...]
Open Government has been a major priority of the Obama administration since the campaign trail, and last week was the publication deadline of each agency’s open government plan. Below, we’ve listed (in no particular order) our ten favorite open government initiatives and why they’re important to government contracting. 1. Department of Commerce’s Virtual CommerceConnect CommerceConnect [...]
Before the Open Government Initiative, there was the The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA) which required the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to create a publicly accessible website containing data on federal awards. The OMB obliged, creating USAspending.gov, but the GAO’s recently-released review of the site points out a few [...]
Earlier this month, Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra announced the launch of the Open Government Directive. In case you missed it, Jon Stewart recently criticized the launch of Open Government on The Daily Show, which you can view here. In response to the criticism, Aneesh Chopra responded in an exclusive interview with ExecutiveBiz. View Chopra [...]
First came the IT dashboard. Now comes judgment day. Federal CIO Kundra tells Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller that Aug. 7 is the day the CIO Council will analyze portfolios across agencies. “This [Aug. 7 evaluation] will require first CIOs who may not have had power before to collect information and to vet the information,” [...]
The other day we reported that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra had made good on his word to implement a federal IT dashboard. The web-based initiative has a bold objective: to provide an open and transparent way for the public to track the US government’s $74 billion investment in federal technology projects. With your own projects [...]
When it comes to leveraging technology for greater government transparency, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has something new in mind: dashboards. The New York Times Bits blog reports that by the end of the month, Kundra “hopes to start yet another federal Web site that will give officials and the public a window into all of [...]
