Posts Tagged: contracting

Acquisition 2.0 Starts With FAR 2.0

Originally posted on BetterBlog, this official blog of the Better Buy Project. Let me first apologize to Andy Krzmarzick, as I have been promising a post on performance-based contracting and how it relates to the Better Buy Project and the Acquisition 2.0 initiative. I actually started that post, but put in on hold a bitRead… Read more »

OSD Joins the Navy/Sole-Source Fray!

In the days since my last post, William J. Lynne, Deputy Secretary of Defense, signed a policy memorandum covering the use of internet-based capabilities — including social media. Because of this memo, I listened to a blogtalkradio broadcast of an interview with Price Floyd, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. During his interview, IRead… Read more »

ACQ SPOTLIGHT ON: DAU Learning Tools

DAU has wonderful online courses – they’re the best I’ve taken so far. However, DAU has amazing features that are underused. These tools go beyond the classroom and promote memory retention and post-classroom learning. Awareness of and utilizing these DAU resources will improve your acquisition knowledge. (NOTE: if DAU sites say your or the site’sRead… Read more »

Best Recruiters 2009 in the Security Cleared Marketplace Announced

“Best Recruiters of 2009” Announced ClearedJobs.Net releases 2009’s list of recruiter honorees selected by Security Cleared Job Fair Attendees throughout the year (December 2, 2009) Falls Church, Virginia — During each of the Cleared Job Fairs held throughout 2009, participating security cleared job seekers were given the opportunity to vote for the nation’s top recruitingRead… Read more »

Facebook and Twitter Can Endanger Your Security Clearance Health

On the Homeland Security Watch blog earlier today, an article was reposted concerning the use of popular social networking tools and their possible endangering of a professional’s security clearance. Here is my response: Yes, professionals with security clearances have many concerns when it comes to maintaining their clearances. These are professionals who we have entrustedRead… Read more »

Are You a Government Contractor?

If you are, I would like to invite you to join TFCN (The Federal Contractor Network). The address is http://www.tfcn.us TFCN has over 20,000 members, 20 LinkedIn groups, industrial-grade Job Board, Business Directory and much, much more. I look forward to seeing you on TFCN! – Alex George TFCN Creator

ClearedJobs.Net Sponsors Wounded Explosive Ordnance Disposal (Bomb Squad) Warrior Foundation’s (WEODWF) 2-Day Bike Ride

Chief Operating Officer of leading online job board for security-cleared professionals to ride 200-miles along with other bike ride participants to raise funds and awareness for Wounded EOD Warriors and their families (November 9, 2009) ClearedJobs.Net, a veteran-owned job board company exclusively serving the security cleared community, is sponsoring the Wounded Explosive Ordnance Disposal WarriorRead… Read more »

DoD promises to fix Iraq contracting problems in 30 days

In August, the Commission on Wartime Contracting gave the Defense Contract Management Agency and the Defense Contract Audit Agency sixty days to try to “harmonize their own approaches” to contract management in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then a “divergence in contractor-employee counts” has come to light, along with some confusion about who is overseeing theRead… Read more »