Image: purchasinginsight.com “SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “If a potential for a conflict of interest is real, it is best to make that fact a principal factor in your bid/no bid decision. Your past performance rating will take a major hit if OCI is uncovered after award and you have not made full and open disclosure previously.” _____________________________________________________________________________ “While planning, marketing, teaming, proposing or performing under feder
“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By By Jacob Horne “Congress told the DOD to put teeth behind cyber. CMMC is the teeth. Believing DOD will now punt third-party validation another year across the board requires ignoring what’s actually written and how program managers behave when careers are on the line.” ______________________________________________________________________________ “There is a bedtime story making the rounds in the defense industrial base, which goes like this: Once
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE “BREAKING DEFENSE” By Valerie Insinna “While all eyes were on the efforts to avert a government shutdown at the end of September, a lesser known tool used by the Pentagon to support small companies was left fighting for its own life: the Small Business Innovation Research program.” ______________________________________________________________________________ “Funding for SBIR lapsed, and while it could be restored, lawmakers are at a hard impasse ab
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