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A new Professional Services Council survey has identified five themes based on interviews with more than 22 government officials from 10 federal agencies and one of those is operational resilience and adaptability of the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. Government respondents in the 2020 Biennial Acquisition Policy Survey: A New Paradigm said procurement offices shifted to telework with minimal interruptions to business operations.

Accenture’s federal arm and Appian have teamed up to help defense and civilian agencies simplify the acquisition process with the use of low-code automation technology. Accenture Federal Services is working on delivery accelerators to update Appian’s suite of Acquisition Solutions designed to simplify the procurement process in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations.

Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting firm Data and Analytic Solutions has been selected to help the Internal Revenue Service explore approaches to accelerate the agency's contracting process. IRS said Monday it will work with DAS through a research partnership aimed at bringing together procurement professionals, university professors and students who have been educated in machine learning.

Lakshmi Ashok, vice president of digital transformation at Science Applications International Corp., highlighted the important role contractors play in simplifying the government's buying process for information technology modernization projects.

KBR has entered into a joint venture agreement with NIPIneftegas JSC to develop a new engineering and support services company, KBR-NIPILLP, in Kazakhstan, KBR announced on Wednesday. 

The State Department’s bureau of democracy, human rights and labor has released a solicitation for initiatives that could help fight corruption amid response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Parsons has secured a spot on a utility monitoring and control systems $1.2B indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center to provide maintenance services, the company announced on Tuesday.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, said the federal government is implementing an “all-of-the-above” approach to procurement as it responds to the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. “They are doing [Other Transaction Authorities], they are doing contract ramping, commercial production, they are doing things like the Defense Production Act, so lots of different efforts,” McGinn said of federal agencies.

The Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Contracting Management Agency have issued modifications to existing contracts with multiple companies that offer medical equipment as well as transportation and communication support services.

Tom Romeo, general manager of Maximus’ federal services segment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Thursday there are three technology trends to watch in the federal government space this year and one is the adoption of new technologies to transform the way citizens apply and receive health care benefits.

Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a four-time Wash100 award winner, wrote in an article published on MilsatMagazine how the U.S. government leverages commercial imagery, hardware and services.

An annual study from market analysis firm Teal Group says worldwide spending on unmanned aerial vehicles is expected to grow in the next 10 years as military agencies invest approximately $98B in new strike and intelligence collection capabilities, National Defense reported Monday.

Susanna Blume and Mikhail Grinberg, senior fellows at the Center for a New American Security, have said that policymakers should look into the differences between acquisition strategies used at military branches to help inform future defense buying reform efforts.

More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.

Industry executives and government officials gathered at the Satellite Innovation 2019 conference to discuss the Department of Defense’s reliance on the commercial sector for Earth observation and communications tools, Space News reported Tuesday.