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  • House members demand NASA plan for rockets
  • Congress debates new satellite plan
  • Auto safety chief defends agency over Toyota recalls
  • Group seeks injunction to halt changes to procurement database
  • Industry group warns against wanton contractor cuts at DHS
  • Recovery funds help outfit buildings with energy-efficient roofs
  • Senate panel OKs bill requiring more small-business opportunities
  • Lawmaker seeks info on increase in federal pay
  • Interior Dept. program offers cloud computing software services
  • Companies paying higher wages could get contract preferences
  • Pentagon panel has contractor contacts
  • Army to issue Ground Combat Vehicle RfP today
  • IG faults DHS follow-through with poor-performing contractors
  • Small-business contracting bill misses the mark, trade groups say
  • GSA elevates green building office
  • Indictment, guilty plea in contracting schemes
  • Senator offers praise, concern about Afghan contracting
  • OMB seeks more contracting oversight, insourcing
  • U.S. lawmaker blocks nominees over tanker
  • After extended delay, Senate confirms GSA chief
  • Contractors: USAID needs more experienced staff in Afghanistan
  • Watchdogs voice caution about changing NASA's course
  • New budget, old battles: Senate debates C-17, F-35, F-22
  • Flournoy defends QDR, budget focus on ‘high-end' ops
  • DoD 30-Year Ship Plan Needs $16B a Year; Aviation Plan Puts Off New Bomber
  • F-35 chief fired, money withheld from Lockheed
  • DoD's $708.2B budget comes with veto threat
  • Gates' QDR envisions a do-it-all military
  • DoD to create 20,000 new jobs to do insourced work
  • 2011 budget proposes fund to develop acquisition workforce
  • IG for Iraq reconstruction investigating $340 million of ‘anomalous' transactions
  • Contractors ask DoD to reimburse offshore payroll taxes
  • GAO: Bid protests jump in 2009
  • IG: Cancel delayed system meant to track Iraq spending
  • IG faults State oversight of ‘democracy building' grants
  • IG: State must improve oversight of police training contracts
  • After months of delay, GSA awards fleet contracts
  • Ineligible firms got $25M in work
  • Obama orders crackdown on tax-delinquent contractors
  • Agencies to use Ideascale software for online forums
  • Defense accounts for smaller portion of contracting in 2009
  • Rule would allow DoD to withhold money from contractors
  • Transparency, public input to guide IT policies
  • IG: Millions in DOT funds went to unscrupulous contractors
  • Industry sees opportunity in 2010 stimulus projects
  • Did top postal exec break contracting rules?
  • DHS adds oversight to grants, contracts
  • $340 million media blitz launches 2010 Census
  • FAA and taxpayers prop up small, little-used airports
  • 2009: Putting the brakes on federal contracting
  • Colo. firm employs the most retired officers as mentors
  • Leeds named as acting head of GSA
  • DHS settles with reservist in precedent-setting case
  • Military mentors hired, fired in discreet fashion
  • OMB: Agencies on track to reduce contracting
  • DHS tightens oversight over grants
  • Contract officials outline new approaches in Afghanistan
  • Projected contractor surge in Afghanistan: Up to 56,000
  • Saying mentor pay ‘obscene,' Gates orders review
  • VA plagued by contracts-related crimes, IG official says
  • Retired general advised Marine Corps while pitching gear
  • Senators highlight examples of ‘wasteful' stimulus projects
  • Loophole let Army hire retired generals as consultants
  • Army snubs KBR under latest combat support services contract
  • GAO cites poor contract management in Medicare, Medicaid payments
  • New authority to speed up acquisition hires
  • Obama outlines steps to reduce erroneous payments
  • Delay in switching to new telecom contract costs government millions
  • Inquiries look into use of retired generals as advisers
  • Recovery Act officials acknowledge data problems, offer fixes
  • Senators call for more accountability when foreign contractors do wrong
  • McCain wants review on defense work by retired brass
  • Military's ‘senior mentors' cashing in
  • Half of NASA shuttle workers worry about post-shutdown future
  • OMB pushes more fixed-price contracts
  • Local real estate flap in way of GSA confirmation
  • GAO official tapped to oversee procurement policy
  • Hearing to assess ‘cumbersome' procurement systems
  • Tanker decision given back to Air Force
  • Missouri Republican holds up confirmation of GSA nominee
  • GSA names three to top posts
  • 30% of contracting officers hired are lured from other agencies
  • OMB to release strategic plan for acquisition workforce
  • VA managers underreport contract actions on ‘slow' system
  • OMB orders reduced spending, hiring under contracts
  • U.S. pulls $644M Iraq jobs program
  • Thousands of intel jobs being insourced
  • Alaska contracts alarm critics
  • GSA's slow pace on stimulus jobs program rankles lawmaker
  • Concerns rise over vacancies in top procurement slots
  • Contracting with Alaska Native firms skyrockets, audit shows
  • OMB overrides GAO on small-business contracting
  • Rocky road to insourcing contract support
  • Justice Dept. joins whistleblower fraud case against SAIC, two former Navy officials
  • Senate bill would halt outsourcing studies
  • GAO: Poor-performing contractors still get performance bonuses
  • Bill would direct new reforms on DoD procurement
  • DoD, GSA outline contracting reforms
  • IGs: State let Blackwater off the hook for $55M in penalties
  • Stimulus money boosts FABS use
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