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A 5 Year $290 Million Small Business Set Aside For Contracting Services Support At The Defense Health Agency
EDITORS NOTE: Please see the following article at “Smalltofeds” for background that may be useful in understanding how to compete for...

Making An Astute Bid/No Bid Decision In Small Business Federal Government Contracting
“SMALLTOFEDS” – By Ken Larson “When considering submitting a proposal to a given government solicitation, conduct a bid/no bid exercise....

Releasing Countries From The Humanitarian And Economic Prisons Of Warfare
The same, multi-national collaborative negotiation used to free 24 prisoners in Russia can be utilized to prevent and resolve wars....

LAKESIDE LUSTER
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VA’s Planned Restart Of Beleaguered Electronic Health Record System Draws Concern
Editors Note: For a history of the Veterans Administration Healthcare Records Systems Project please see: ‘Connecting The Dots’ In the...

Data Can Be A Double-Edged Sword In Generative AI, Agency Experts Say
“NEXTGOV/FCW’ – By Alexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent “Though there are myriad federal use cases for generative AI applications,...

Don’t Overlook The Impact Of The Government Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)
SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken larson “The CDRL is a register of the deliverable data items. Each data item has a discrete numeric identifier, a...

Mastering The Year-End Sprint: Keys To Fourth-Quarter Success
“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Larry Allen “Experienced government contractors know that this is the time of year when many make or break...

Pentagon Creates Regional Partnerships To Sustain Gear Far From Home
“DEFENSE NEWS” By Jen Judson “A recognition that sustainment can be performed through a coalition and a network of regional providers,...

New Federal Fiscal Year Ahead – Have You Managed Contract Funding Risk?
“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “As the federal fiscal year draws to a close and the new year opens on 1 October, an astute contractor will...

EVERGREEN LAKE VIEW
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Time To Retire The Phrase ‘Military Industrial Complex’
“RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT” By Dan Grazier “President Dwight Eisenhower coined this immortal phrase during his January 17, 1961 farewell...

Veterans Turned Entrepreneurs Are Tackling Some Of Today’s Biggest Challenges
“DAV” By Elizabeth DePompei, Communications Writer “Natural disasters. Health care inequity. Disability accessibility. These are the...

Cybercom, DARPA Advance ‘Bidirectional’ Tech Partnership
“NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE” By Josh Luckenbaugh, Staff Writer “Instead of building a one-way bridge from each DARPA program to each...

Getting Focused Before Starting A Consulting Firm
“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Mark Amtower “Why you need a strategy that clearly differentiates your skillsets when you try to launch your...

How to Make the Pentagon ‘Software-Centric’
“NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE” By Josh Luckenbaugh, Staff Writer “The Pentagon can’t take the years it normally does writing capability...

What Small Business Should Know About FAR and CAS
“SMALLTOFEDS” BY Ken Larson “Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) – Rules of the Game and Developing...

Washington Technology 2024 Top 100 Reader’s Guide
“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Nick Wakeman, Editor In Chief “The companies, trends and drivers show space and cyber as among the key...

BRIDGES IN THE FOG
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