David Perera

Air Force wants competition strategies for major acquisitions
Air Force program offices must develop a stand-alone competition strategy for all major acquisition category efforts, Air Force Acquisition Executive David Van Buren announced in a Jan. 14 memo (.pdf).
Among the matters the strategy should address are barriers to competition, and what…[Read more]

The SBInet program is no more, the Homeland Security Department announced January 14. Instead, the department will launch a new border security technology approach, “which will utilize existing, proven technology tailored to the distinct terrain and population density of each border region,” DHS says in a fact sheet (.pdf).
“SBInet cannot meet its…[Read more]

The Defense Department has underway a semantic technology demonstration that should by the end of this fiscal year demonstrate the enterprisewide viability of the approach, at least when it comes to personnel visibility, says a newly released plan on DoD business systems.
The fiscal 2011 Enterprise Transition Plan, an annual report on business…[Read more]

The Defense Department has underway a semantic technology demonstration that should by the end of this fiscal year demonstrate the enterprisewide viability of the approach, at least when it comes to personnel visibility, says a newly released plan on DoD business systems.
The fiscal 2011 Enterprise Transition Plan, an annual report on business…[Read more]

Federal agencies, laggardly in their transition to the General Services Administration’s Networx telecommunication vehicle now have until the summer of 2012 to get off their existing FTS 2001 Bridge contracts.
That’s because the General Services Administration approved Dec. 8 a second sole-source contract extension of FTS 2001 services with…[Read more]

The office of secretary of defense is likely not undertaking proper records disposition of emails and shared files, says a National Archives and Records Administration inspection report (.pdf) obtained by FierceGovernmentIT. The report, dated December 2010, is not classified nor otherwise restricted from public distribution.
The report examines,…[Read more]

Agencies are still struggling to identify the best model for records archiving social media. Even as the National Archives and Records Administration continues to provide guidance, some in the gov 2.0 space suggest a collaborative, federal strategy would be more effective than agency-by-agency compliance.
One possible solution would be a standard…[Read more]

DoD to change how it funds, buys and manages IT – FierceGovernmentIT
Calling its current budget process “mismatched” to the fast pace of the information technology marketplace, the Defense Department says it wants major changes to the way it funds, buys and manages IT projects.
In a report from the office of the secretary of defense sent to…[Read more]