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  • DHS promises contracting improvements, including electronic bidding
  • GSA outlines requirements, schedule for cloud vendor reviews
  • Air Force readies $21B contract for aircraft training systems
  • Contractors waste billions awaiting clearances
  • Deepwater is dead, says Coast Guard official
  • New rules seek to curb bad contracting practices
  • Cloud security reviews give priority to GSA vendors
  • Panel seeks tracking, displaying federal spending data
  • Spending bill extends ban on A-76 studies
  • Congress broadens DoD contractor compensation caps
  • Navy delays RFP on NMCI replacement
  • Lawmakers likely to expand cap on contractor pay
  • DoJ: Recoveries in fraud cases top $5 billion
  • DoD authorization bill caps contractor salaries
  • Procurement chief says DoD won't target contractor profits
  • OMB: Improper payments drop in 2011
  • Personal debt sinks more clearances
  • Senate passes bill to repeal contract withholding
  • Top procurement official to step down
  • GSA expands telework eligibility
  • House measure would repeal rule to withhold contract payments
  • Seventh GSA employee sentenced in bribery and kickback scheme
  • Contractors challenge prohibition against campaign contributions
  • McCaskill vows action on wartime contracting waste
  • Senators seek data on DoD contracting with Alaska Native corporations
  • Lawmakers call for cap on contractor compensation
  • Audit finds problems in IRS purchase card use
  • Oracle settles $200M claim of failing to offer government best price
  • 2 Army Corps employees arrested on contracting fraud charges
  • Individual work spaces shrink 20% or more
  • Contractor execs paid 64% more than feds
  • VA prepares to purchase iPads, iPhones
  • Survey: Contractor execs paid 70 percent more than fed execs
  • Study faults quality of federal grant spending data
  • Administration targets improper health care payments
  • Obama order could reduce lag in payments to small businesses
  • Accenture pays $64 million to settle whistle-blower case
  • Study: Contractors paid far more than feds for comparable work
  • Overhaul wartime contracting, panel says
  • Commission: Up to $60B wasted, lost in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Contract winner must hire predecessor's employees, new rule says
  • Health-care fraud prosecutions on pace to rise 85 percent
  • GSA delays plan to charge employees thousands in parking costs
  • Furloughs for 4,000 FAA employees to extend into September
  • Analyst: $120 billion in federal purchases between now and Oct. 1
  • Carter nominated as next deputy defense secretary
  • Late contractor payments could cost government millions
  • Inspector questions apparent overbilling by contractor
  • $307B question for Treasury: Who gets paid first?
  • A primer on the debt-ceiling debate
  • New federal spending oversight board kicks off
  • Contractors may not get paid if debt deal isn't reached
  • Feds plan more competition for IT business
  • Senator alleges abuse of small biz contracting program
  • Industry group urges improvements in cloud policies
  • Feds driving harder bargain at procurement table
  • Plan would freeze pay, cut workforce by 300,000
  • Contractors vs. feds: What's behind crumbling relations
  • CFOs get creative as budgets tighten
  • City Pairs grows to more than 6,000 airline routes
  • Government burdens industry with too much risk, CEO says
  • Big companies got more than $8B in small-biz contracts
  • Contractors resist DoD's tougher info rules
  • White House orders agencies to cut spending on services contracts
  • Senator blasts DoD for handling of contracts in Afghanistan
  • 61 large businesses among top 100 winning contracts meant for small firms, analysis finds
  • FBI joins Arlington Cemetery criminal investigation
  • DoD rule would require contractors to protect unclassified info
  • IG report says Boeing overcharged Army $13M
  • HHS employs predictive modeling to fight Medicare fraud
  • Looming gap in weather satellites threatens forecasting
  • Space shuttle pensions strain NASA funding
  • Pentagon will prioritize energy use in acquisition process
  • Industry: Public left out of rulemaking
  • Scaled-down IT contract awarded for planned DHS headquarters
  • New rule accelerates green procurement
  • U.S.-funded projects in war zones at risk
  • Army acquisition chief resigns
  • Rule outlines requirements for green contracting
  • House bill urges DoD to halt insourcing
  • Bill would extend criminal liability to nondefense contractors overseas
  • Norfolk Naval Shipyard CO fired
  • Funds shortage scuttles SSA call center in mid-construction
  • GSA prepares to consolidate contractor databases
  • President considers trade association donation disclosure for contractors
  • Bill seeks to slow outsourcing of federal jobs
  • Flap over FAPIIS: Site meant to disclose contractor performance ‘worst ... ever'
  • IRS delays 3 percent withholding from contracts
  • Bid protests prompt calls for dialogue with vendors
  • Role of security contractors debated at hearing
  • Defense may overhaul acquisition corps
  • New data reveals government's carbon footprint
  • Research group predicts less contract spending in 2012
  • Draft policy would disclose contractors' political ties
  • Report: 95 Defense programs show $64B cost increase
  • Contractor database goes public — with limits
  • Many DoD activities to remain open during shutdown
  • Alaska Native Corporations to defend controversial contracting program
  • SBA to let larger companies win small-biz contracts
  • Army says controversial project was not outsourcing
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