Ken LarsonOct 3, 20224 min readCongress Saves Successful 40 Year Small Business Innovation Program At Last MinuteBREAKING DEFENSE By Jaspreet Gill “With just one day left until a program used widely within the Pentagon to spur innovation hits its...
Ken LarsonOct 2, 20223 min readA Classic Story Of What Must Change In Government Technology Development - The Destroyer With No GunPLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2008 at the tail end of a 36 year career in Aerospace and Defense I was offered a job ...
Ken LarsonOct 1, 20223 min readDoD-Funded Military Spouse Fellowship Program Coming in 2023“MILITARY TIMES” – By Karen Jowers “Defense officials will launch a program in 2023 to place military spouses into paid fellowship...
Ken LarsonSep 30, 20222 min readBaseline Control With Earned Value Yields Project Management SuccessSMALLTOFEDS By Ken larson “Astute contractors conduct contract baseline management through sound technical, cost and schedule definition...
Ken LarsonSep 29, 20221 min readCompliance With The Service Contract And Davis-Bacon Acts By Developing A Bid Conformance Table“SMALLTOFEDS” By Ken Larson “When pricing government contracts, in particular service contracts, the small business will encounter...
Ken LarsonSep 28, 20222 min readDOT And Commerce Departments Teaming On Small Business Contracting And SBA Capital Investment “WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Chris Riotta “The federal government launched a new set of strategic partnerships this week aimed at...
Ken LarsonSep 27, 20225 min readWalter Barnes III “All The Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business”“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Walter Barnes III , Founder and President of PM Consulting Group “A company founder shares the lessons learned...
Ken LarsonSep 26, 20221 min readSmall Business Contributions To Research And Development“SBA OFFICE OF ADVOCACY” “In 2019, small businesses with 10–499 employees performed $70.6 billion worth of R&D work and employed over...
Ken LarsonSep 25, 20224 min read“Connecting The Dots” In the Military And Veterans Health Care Systems MazeBy Ken Larson A Vietnam Veteran and former federal contracts manager, who has been in the VA Health Care System for 16 years, offers...
Ken LarsonSep 24, 20225 min readAn Employer Perspective And A Veteran’s Response To: “Top 9 Obstacles To Employment Veterans Face”EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article from “Military.Com” is an excellent treatise from an employer perspective about the challenges...
Ken LarsonSep 23, 20221 min readDARPA Seeks Leap-Ahead Capabilities For Vertical Takeoff And Landing X-Plane (VIDEO)DARPA “ANCILLARY, aims to develop and flight demonstrate critical technologies required for a leap ahead in vertical takeoff and landing...
Ken LarsonSep 22, 20223 min readPentagon To Pour $1.2 Billion Into ‘Critical’ Biomanufacturing Industry“BREAKING DEFENSE” By Lee Ferran “The Pentagon announced $1.2 billion in new investments into biomanufacturing, which it hopes will help...
Ken LarsonSep 21, 20225 min readReversing The Slow, Painful Death Of Commercial Item Contracting“THE COALITION FOR GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT” “With the enactment of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) in 1994, there was hope...
Ken LarsonSep 20, 20224 min readCase Affirms Rights of Contractors Facing Debarment“NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE” By Frederic M. Levy, Michael Pierce and Michael Wagner “Proposed debarments are high-stakes disputes that...
Ken LarsonSep 19, 20223 min readDOD Issues FAR Deviation After Continued SAM UEI Transition Delays“FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK” By Jason Miller “The Defense Pricing and Contracting office issued a deviation to the Federal Acquisition...
Ken LarsonSep 18, 20224 min readPentagon Diverted Small Business Fund To Defense Industry Giants“RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT” Written by Tevah Gevelber and Connor Echols “In just one year, more than $300 million earmarked for small...
Ken LarsonSep 17, 20223 min read Costs Of US Wars Linger For More Than 100 Years Benefits To Veterans And Their Families Continue Long After Conflicts Are Over. AP News By Mike Baker “If history is any judge, the U.S....
Ken LarsonSep 16, 20222 min readPentagon Issues Memorandum To Contracting Officers On Managing Existing Contracts Inflation“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Ross Wilkers “The plan is for DOD to consider upward adjustments to contract prices based on current economic...
Ken LarsonSep 15, 20222 min readPentagon Seeks Commercially Available Modelling Software For Supply Chain Disruption Solutions“C4ISRNET” By Courtney Albon “In a solicitation from the Defense Innovation Unit, a Pentagon agency that fosters DoD adoption of...
Ken LarsonSep 14, 20224 min readHow The Government Contracting Community Can Better Appeal To Gen Z“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” – By Glenn Kurowski “Generation Z is a small part of today’s workforce, but they are the future and we know...
