Podcasts about federal procurement policy

The Department of Government Efficiency has arrived at the Office of Biometric Identity Management, a quiet but powerful component of the Department of Homeland Security that handles a critical database of fingerprint, facial, and iris data used throughout the federal government. Three people, including one person within DHS and two more familiar with the matter, confirmed that DOGE now has a presence at the agency. Two of those sources added that DOGE seems to have restarted conversations about the future of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) program, which DHS has long hoped would replace the agency's current biometrics database — the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), one of the world's largest known systems of that kind. OBIM was created more than a decade ago to manage the biometric information used to make border security decisions. As a relatively small office, OBIM provides assistance to DHS and federal agencies, including the State Department. OBIM also sometimes exchanges biometrics with other countries. OBIM's biometric database stores hundreds of millions of biometric data points. A DHS website notes that a single query of the system “can retrieve data for an individual tied to a Department of State visa application, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection log of an entry into the United States, and an immigration status change logged by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.” The Trump administration has launched an effort to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation with a focus on delivering a quicker, more efficient and less burdensome procurement process for federal agencies. To provide details on the progress of the so-called “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul,” the General Services Administration — one of the federal government's lead procurement agencies and a member of the FAR Council — launched a new website Tuesday for the initiative. Federal acquisition stakeholders can expect to find a streamlined version of the FAR, buying guides — the first of which will be focused on software-as-a-service — and opportunities to share their feedback about acquisition policy on the new website, according to a release from GSA. The Trump administration's overhaul of the FAR was spurred by an executive order in April that called on the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget to lead the effort with FAR Council members GSA, NASA and the Defense Department. Within 180 days of that order, the group is expected to “amend the FAR to ensure that it contains only provisions that are required by statute or that are otherwise necessary to support simplicity and usability, strengthen the efficacy of the procurement system, or protect economic or national security interests.” The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast  on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.

The Trump administration has ordered a rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. But not by members of the FAR Counsel but rather by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. The White House, that is. Here with what's at stake, Hunton Andrews Kurth procurement attorney Eric Crusius. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration has ordered a rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. But not by members of the FAR Counsel but rather by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. The White House, that is. Here with what's at stake, Hunton Andrews Kurth procurement attorney Eric Crusius. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode, host Dave Wennergren talks with long time federal acquisition leader Lesley Field. Guest: Lesley Field, adjunct lecturer, School of Public Affairs at American University and former deputy administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-field-82097023/  Additional Resources: To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode, host Dave Wennergren talks with long time federal acquisition leader Lesley Field.Guest:Lesley Field, adjunct lecturer, School of Public Affairs at American University and former deputy administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-field-82097023/ Additional Resources:To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Christine Harada, former senior advisor in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy during the Biden administration, joins Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends. Harada is currently the senior advisor of Project Redword at Advanced Energy United and is a dynamic executive leader with over 25 years of experience bridging the public and private sector. That experience coupled with her educational background in aeronautics,astronautics, and business from MIT, Stanford, and Wharton, positions her as a versatile leader. On today's program, Harada will discuss the challenges of leadership during today's changing times. She offers sage advice on approaches to keep teams focused on the mission.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine Harada, former senior advisor in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy during the Biden administration, joins Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends.Harada is currently the senior advisor of Project Redword at Advanced Energy United and is a dynamic executive leader with over 25 years of experience bridging the public and private sector.That experience coupled with her educational background in aeronautics,astronautics, and business from MIT, Stanford, and Wharton, positions her as a versatile leader.On today's program, Harada will discuss the challenges of leadership during today's changing times. She offers sage advice on approaches to keep teams focused on the mission.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its better contracting initiative more than a year ago. Leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprise wide software licenses, a long time bugaboo for federal agencies. Well, guess what? The General Services Administration is about to deliver on that promise. GSA says its IT vendor management office is close to finalizing a government wide deal with Microsoft. For details, Federal. Executive Editor Jason Miller, caught up with GSA Assistant Commissioner IT category, Laura Stanton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its better contracting initiative more than a year ago. Leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprise wide software licenses, a long time bugaboo for federal agencies. Well, guess what? The General Services Administration is about to deliver on that promise. GSA says its IT vendor management office is close to finalizing a government wide deal with Microsoft. For details, Federal. Executive Editor Jason Miller, caught up with GSA Assistant Commissioner IT category, Laura Stanton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for “Procurement Potpourri,” a wide-ranging discussion of key procurement policy and program developments across the federal market. They tackle the state of interagency contracting focusing on the status of the four major interagency procurements: OASIS+, CIO-SP4, NASA SEWP, and Alliant 3.  The discussion highlighted the role of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has played in establishing and overseeing the IT GWACs and whether enough is currently being done.  Miller also shares his thoughts on the ever-growing cybersecurity regulatory regime, including CMMC, and the need for cyber harmonization.   Finally Miller talks about a new SBA report on the mentor-protégé program. 

Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for “Procurement Potpourri,” a wide-ranging discussion of key procurement policy and program developments across the federal market.They tackle the state of interagency contracting focusing on the status of the four major interagency procurements: OASIS+, CIO-SP4, NASA SEWP, and Alliant 3.  The discussion highlighted the role of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has played in establishing and overseeing the IT GWACs and whether enough is currently being done. Miller also shares his thoughts on the ever-growing cybersecurity regulatory regime, including CMMC, and the need for cyber harmonization.  Finally Miller talks about a new SBA report on the mentor-protégé program.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Office Of Management and Budget and General Services Administration have been fielding a data integration tool to help contracting officers. Dubbed Co-Pilot, it gathers data from various governmentwide procurement systems, and presents buyers with pricing histories, vendor information and other data to help their decisions. How's the first month been going? We get an update from the senior advisor at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Christine Harada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Office Of Management and Budget and General Services Administration have been fielding a data integration tool to help contracting officers. Dubbed Co-Pilot, it gathers data from various governmentwide procurement systems, and presents buyers with pricing histories, vendor information and other data to help their decisions. How's the first month been going? We get an update from the senior advisor at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Christine Harada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

With spending against governmentwide acquisition contracts reaching an all-time high in fiscal 2023, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy is pushing agencies to make changes to ensure a healthy amount of small businesses participate on these vehicles. In a new memo from OFPP, the Biden administration is telling agencies to take specific steps like on-ramps, applying the “rule of two” and even not using a “best-in-class” contracts should they be detrimental to small firms, when managing or buying from a multiple award contract. “This guidance takes an important step in ensuring our diverse base of small businesses have opportunities in a greater diversity of acquisition strategies,” said Small Business Administration Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman in a blog posted by the Office of Management and Budget today. “By taking advantage of the strategies in this guidance, the federal government will be able to increase the number of small business firms in the federal supplier base and increase contracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs).” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With spending against governmentwide acquisition contracts reaching an all-time high in fiscal 2023, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy is pushing agencies to make changes to ensure a healthy amount of small businesses participate on these vehicles.In a new memo from OFPP, the Biden administration is telling agencies to take specific steps like on-ramps, applying the “rule of two” and even not using a “best-in-class” contracts should they be detrimental to small firms, when managing or buying from a multiple award contract.“This guidance takes an important step in ensuring our diverse base of small businesses have opportunities in a greater diversity of acquisition strategies,” said Small Business Administration Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman in a blog posted by the Office of Management and Budget today. “By taking advantage of the strategies in this guidance, the federal government will be able to increase the number of small business firms in the federal supplier base and increase contracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs).” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy turns 50 years old in 2024. While the federal acquisition community has come a long way since 1974, the next few years, let alone the next 50 years, will be all about the acquisition workforce.Christine Harada, the senior advisor in OFPP, said the Biden administration's acquisition workforce priorities for 2024 and beyond start with ensuring agencies have the appropriate people who are trained and supported, and who have the necessary skillsets for today, tomorrow and the long-term.“We're working to build our best inspired, engaged acquisition workforce. That, of course, requires an environment that attracts new talent and offers modern training and development opportunities, where the acquisition workforce members actually build communities both inside and across federal agencies through networking and other learning opportunities,” Harada said in an interview with Federal News Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy turns 50 years old in 2024. While the federal acquisition community has come a long way since 1974, the next few years, let alone the next 50 years, will be all about the acquisition workforce. Christine Harada, the senior advisor in OFPP, said the Biden administration's acquisition workforce priorities for 2024 and beyond start with ensuring agencies have the appropriate people who are trained and supported, and who have the necessary skillsets for today, tomorrow and the long-term. “We're working to build our best inspired, engaged acquisition workforce. That, of course, requires an environment that attracts new talent and offers modern training and development opportunities, where the acquisition workforce members actually build communities both inside and across federal agencies through networking and other learning opportunities,” Harada said in an interview with Federal News Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This year, ACT-IAC's Imagine Nation ELC was our largest conference ever, with more than 1200 in-person attendees! We also had more sessions than ever, and The Buzz is excited to bring a selection of recordings from this year's event to our podcast audience.This session features the presentation of the Federal Acquisition Institute's 2023 Chief Acquisition Officers Council Awards. After a brief introduction, moderator Christine Harada, Senior Advisor in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, sits down with all our award-winners for a robust panel discussion around the important work they've done in 2023. Awardees:Individual Award - James Greer, AWARE Program Manager, IRSTeam Award - Bonnie Evangelista and the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace Team, Department of DefenseSmall Business and Procurement Equity Individual Award - Darlene Bullock, Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Utilization, DHSSmall Business and Procurement Equity Team Award - Anthony Lomelin and TeamIndian Affairs Acquisition Office, Bureau of Indian AffairsLisa Wilusz Program Management Excellence Award - Mouncef Belcaid & Peggy O' Connor and Team, Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network Program Management Division, FirstNet Authority, Department of CommerceSustainable Acquisition Award - Gabriel Rangel, General Services Officer, U.S. Embassy of TanzaniaCongratulations again to all awardees! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on LinkedIn or visit http://www.actiac.org.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been banging this particular drum for years now. Not only are agencies allowed to engage in discussions with industry before they craft procurements, doing so is usually a good thing. Now that principle is enshrined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation via a new rule issued just last week. To go a little deeper, Federal News Network Deputy Editor Jared Serbu talked with Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners.

More than 80 percent of federal government IT spending goes to legacy infrastructure and applications. Gundeep Ahluwalia, the CIO at the Labor Department, writes about progress against that technical debt in a blog post on the Labor Department web site. Joe Klimavicz, former CIO at Justice and now Managing Director at KPMG, discusses ways CIOs can fight technical debt - and win. The General Services Administration should cancel the Transactional Data Reporting pilot because of pricing problems, according to GSA's Office of Inspector General. An IG report says the pilot “still has not resulted in a viable pricing methodology that ensures…the lowest overall cost alternative to meet the government's needs” after a six-year test run. Joe Jordan, President and CEO of Actuparo, and former Administrator of Federal Procurement Policy, explains what the report means, and the implications for FAS, the government, and industry if GSA cancels the pilot. The Labor Department's IT shared service effort is in its fourth year now. Agency leaders say it's providing a foundation for zero trust. Paul Blahusch, the Chief Information Security Officer at the Labor Department, tells Scoop News Group's Wyatt Kash how the shared services effort supports the agency's zero trust journey.

Four years ago when the Office of Federal Procurement Policy set a deadline of 2022 to train acquisition workers to buy technology differently, it thought it was giving agencies plenty of time to accomplish this goal. The idea of the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Program (DITAP) came from a competition held in 2015 to improve the federal government's approach to buying digital services. Joanie Newhart, the associate administrator for acquisition workforce programs at OFPP, said agencies will come close to meeting deadline set in 2018 to institutionalize the DITAP process.

Earlier this summer, the federal civilian contracting community all went back to zero. That is, zero hours of training. But don't worry, that actually was a good thing because the Federal Acquisition Institute and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy shut down a legacy training system and placed the finishing touches on its new one. The move away from the Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System (FAITAS) and to a commercial system from Cornerstone OnDemand, which started in June 2021, came to completion in May with the launch of the continuous learning module.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, the General Services Administration is taking down SAM.gov this weekend to complete its transition to a new unique entity identifier. The new Polaris contract from GSA already has a protest. Michael Wooten, vice president for strategic direction at the National Industries for the Blind and former administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, discusses implementing a process of frictionless acquisition. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will get half a billion dollars more next fiscal year than it did this fiscal year if Congress approves the White House's budget request. Grant Schneider, senior director for cybersecurity services at Venable LLP and former federal chief information security officer, explains what impact he sees the increase of funding potentially having on federal agencies. The Commerce Department and its components are pushing their cloud migrations hard. Nagesh Rao, chief information officer at the Bureau of Industry and Security, explains how cloud transformations have helped his agency. This interview is part of FedScoop's “Cloud-Driven Innovation in Federal Government” video campaign, sponsored by AWS. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency plans to revise its Zero Trust Maturity Model. The General Services Administration has a final small business acquisition strategy for its Services Multi-Agency Contract (MAC). Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump and former administrator of Federal Procurement Policy, explains the impact this will have on small businesses working with the government. The federal IT dashboard is getting a makeover. One reason is the availability of more data about federal IT and getting that data faster than ever. Nima Negahban, chief executive officer of Kinetica, describes the tools agencies are using to quickly parse through troves of data. This interview is underwritten by Kinetica in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. 21 federal agencies have clean audit opinions for fiscal year 2021, but the Government Accountability Office's review of financial statements for the year finds some of the same problems that keep popping up. GAO's Director of Financial Management and Assurance Issues Dawn Simpson discusses the improvements agencies have made and the problems that still persist for some. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Biden administration has been pushing for more federal contracting dollars to go to small and disadvantaged businesses. The specific goal is for an additional $100 billion to such businesses over the next five years. For how agencies can start to reach this goal, the acting director of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Lesley Field.

For those outside of the acquisitions community, the practices, policies and processes of federal procurement can seem quite impenetrable. But given that the US Government spent more than $665 billion on contracts in 2020, it is not a subject to be ignored.To that end, The Buzz with ACT-IAC  presents: Demystifying Procurement - a series designed to take you through the ins and outs of this complex, but vital, topic.In this episode, host Colin Larsen interviews Lesley Field, Acting Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at OMB, where she guides the office to provide government-wide direction to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in acquisition processes. Lesley takes us on a crash course through the procurement process and talks about ways the government is trying to modernize and streamline the process to make delivery of services more efficient.Demystifying Procurement Series:Episode 1 - A Brief History of Government Contracting with Jim NagleResources:OMB M-22-03 OFPP "Mythbusting" Memo 3Periodic Table of Acquisition InnovationSubscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on Twitter @ACTIAC or visit http://www.actiac.org.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched its new artificial intelligence website, listing out priorities for 2022. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act allocates $550 billion in federal spending towards new investments in areas like transportation, energy and broadband. Much of this money will be awarded as grants. Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP and former administrator of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget tells Francis how businesses should think differently about federal grants versus contracts. President and CEO at Intrusion and former Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott explains how federal CIO's and chief information security officers should be putting people first when undertaking modernization efforts at their agencies. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is putting a new emphasis on helping agencies reduce their Procurement Administrative Lead Time. “PALT” is the time it takes between when an agency issues a contract solicitation and when it actually makes a contract award. And there's good reason to focus on PALT: According to a new analysis by Bloomberg Government, the average lead time increased 72% over the last five years. BGOV's Paul Murphy led the data analysis project, and he joined the Federal Drive to talk more about the rise of PALT.

President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy elicited a collective response from the federal acquisition community. Most long-time acquisition experts asked who is Biniam Gebre? Gebre is a former appointee under the Obama administration at HUD and leads the Accenture Federal Service management consulting practice. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller asked former OFPP administrators for some insights and advice for Gebre. Jason joins me now to discuss.

Recommendations for creating a Bureau of Cyber Statistics Sen. Angus King (I-ME), chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses reasons to establish a new cyber statistics bureau and priorities for the national cyber director The importance of securing contractor PIV cards Michael Missal, inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs, goes over findings about adequately tracking contractor personal identify verification cards Challenges and opportunities for OFPP leadership Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump, and Jim Williams, partner at Schambach & Williams Consulting, discuss priorities for the next leader of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy

The government spends more than $90 billion a year on information technology, and as anyone involved in the procurement process can attest, that process is far from perfect. Now the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration are turning to online crowdsourcing to help make it better. The new series of challenges is called Engaging Procurement Ideas to Consider --- or 'EPIC.' The first one wrapped up at the end of June after gathering 1,700 responses. Lesley Field is the acting director of OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy. And Laura Stanton is assistant commissioner for the IT category in GSA's Federal Acquisition Service. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu welcomed them to Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about how EPIC works. Field spoke first.

For all of its talk about yet more procurement reform, the Biden administration still hasn't appointed anyone to run the small but crucial Office of Federal Procurement Policy. Meanwhile, over at the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, something big is brewing. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked about that with federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen.

Steve Kelman, who led the Office of Federal Procurement Policy during the Clinton Administration and is a current professor at the Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has a reputation as a big thinker about management and government and why things work the way they do.In this conversation with Editor Nick Wakeman, Kelman shares his thoughts about Black Swans and Gray Rhinos -- those often traumatic events that we either didn’t see coming or we knew could happen but we failed to prepare for.​Critical to that preparation is cultivating the ability to break away from your standard ways of thinking and not falling into the trap of doing things in certain ways because that is how they have always been done. Status quo thinking is often what leaves us vulnerable when disaster inevitably strikes.

Some solid career people are keeping the lights on at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. But the Biden administration has so far given few signals about what it plans to do with federal procurement. For what we might expect to see, the Federal Drive turned to former OFPP administrator, now a partner at the law firm Akin Gump, Angela Styles.

David Safavian is the General Counsel of the American Conservative Union and the Director of the ACU Foundation’s Nolan Center for Justice. In addition to his work at ACU and ACUF, he is a regular lecturer on the intersection of ethics and the law. Prior to joining ACUF, David served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he taught courses in real estate ethics. Safavian held two senior policy positions in the Administration of President George W. Bush: Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy and Chief of Staff of the US General Services Administration. Before joining the Bush Administration, David was Chief of Staff to Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. TOPIC: Justice Reform and Neighborhood Safety: A Winning Combination!! Fred Lucas is an award-winning journalist and veteran White House correspondent who has reported for The Daily Signal, Fox News, Newsmax, TheBlaze, Townhall, The National Interest, History Magazine Quarterly, The American Spectator, The American Conservative and other outlets. TOPIC: “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” Naomi Lopez is the Director of Healthcare Policy for the Goldwater Institute. Her work focuses on a broad range of healthcare issues, including the Right to Try, off-label communications, pharmaceutical drug pricing, supply-side healthcare reforms, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and 21st-century healthcare innovation. Lopez has 25 years ofexperience in policy and has previously served at organizations including the Illinois Policy Institute, the Pacific Research Institute, the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies, and the Cato Institute. A frequent media guest and public speaker, Naomi has authored hundreds of studies, opinion articles and commentaries. TOPIC: U.S. Leads in COVID-19 Vaccine Innovation!!

In today's Federal Newscast, five years after the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued guidance on reverse auctions, the Federal Acquisition Regulations Council is finally implementing it.

Acquisition 360 is a late-hour initiative by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to improve communications between industry and government. It's a good idea as far as it goes, but could it go a little further? The executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin, has more details.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy's has a goal of removing friction from federal acquisition. It's more than just a catch phrase. Agencies including the IRS, the Army and the General Services Administration are turning to robotic process automation to reduce to minutes, manual processes that usually take hours. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller covers how these pilots are putting some concrete examples behind OFPP's frictionless acquisition governmentwide goal.

The frustration over how agencies rate and review contractor performance is hitting a new high. New data shows contracting officers are either not putting information into the contractor performance assessment rating system (CPARS) or they're treating it as a checklist exercise. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about why vendors want the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to change performance assessments. Jason joined the show to discuss.

Takeaways from the TSP participant survey Kim Weaver, Director of External Affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, talks about the Thrift Savings Plan participant satisfaction survey and website update GSA aims for a quick turnaround on the STARS III contract Joe Jordan, former Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, provides updates on the STARS III multiple awards contract The potential for classified remote work Larry Allen, President of Allen Federal Business Partners, discusses the Defense Department’s plans to enable remote work options for classified projects

Nearly a decade in the making, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy is ready to launch a new IT vendor management office. The idea it to provide "acquisition intelligence" to agencies buying technology using governmentwide acquisition contracts. For his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller got a hold of a briefing document explaining the IT-VMO concept. Jason joins me now with details.

Conducting oversight on the CARES Act Robert Westbrooks, Executive Director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, discusses how the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee is promoting accountability in COVID-19 relief efforts Frictionless acquisition and the President’s Management Agenda Michael Wooten, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget, details the Cross-Agency Priority Goal of frictionless acquisition and some of the changes that have been made

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy’s has a new cross-agency priority goal. It's not about changing acquisition rules or processes. Instead, the goal is called frictionless acquisition. Friction causes heat and slowdowns. The initiative aims to change how contracting officers, program managers, and contractors view what it takes to buy a product or service. Federal News Network's Jason Miller discussed the complexity reduction plan in a two part interview with the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Michael Wooten, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Among those to whom President Trump granted clemency were a one-time administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and an entrepreneur, who built a technology company that served more than 41 million students, staff, employers, and government constituents worldwide.

Procurement administrative lead time is a nice phrase for how bureaucratically long it takes from when the time an agency decides it might need to buy something, to when it awards a contract. It even has its own acronym: PALT. And PALT is often not paltry. Now the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has issued a proposed definition of PALT as a step towards squeezing it down. For the industry's take, the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council David Berteau joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Dr. Michael Wooten, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said he is preparing the workforce for a future where robotics process automation and artificial intelligence take over the mundane tasks of acquisition.

Imagine a federal acquisition process that is frictionless. No needless administrative red tape, no jumping through hoops to try something new or different. And most importantly, imagine an environment where industry and agencies can communicate without fear of violating a rule buried in a 2,000-page document. This frictionless procurement environment is the goal of Michael Wooten, the new administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller delved into Wooten's ideas and how this concept of a frictionless has already begun. Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss more.

Michael Wooten became the 15th administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy about six weeks ago. More importantly, he became the first permanent head of federal procurement during the Trump administration. In his first two public speeches, Wooten hit all the expected notes that an OFPP administrator is supposed to reach around workforce, technology and data. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why Wooten has an opportunity to move the acquisition workforce out from under the flow charts of government procurement. Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in studio for more discussion.

The federal government has been operating without a Senate-confirmed administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy for two and a half years now. But no more — before their departure for the August recess, Senators approved Michael Wooten to lead OFPP. To talk more about what the confirmation means and some of the issues Wooten is likely to face in the new job, Federal Drive with Tom Temin was joined by Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president of the Professional Services Council.

Innovation is one of the terms that gets thrown around a lot in federal procurement circles. But exactly when is an agency or organization actually innovative? What stops agencies from trying something new or different when it comes to buying goods or services? The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is trying to answer those questions and debunk some myths about acquisition innovation in the fourth version of its mythbusters series. Leslie Field, the OFPP deputy administrator, and Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin. They told Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller how the new memo is an effort to break down the barriers to innovation that have built up over the past 20 years.

On episode 57, Robert and Francis welcomes Lesley Field, Deputy Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at OMB, and Anne Laurent, author of Buying as One: Category Management Lessons from the United Kingdom. Today, they discuss the evolution and methodology behind category management.

Procurement policy is rarely at the top of an incoming administration's priorities. But now the Trump administration has nominated a former D.C. procurement official to direct the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. Michael Wooten is now working at the Education Department as deputy assistant secretary for community colleges. For what Wooten might want to do if confirmed, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to former OFPP Deputy and Acting Administrator Robert Burton, now an attorney and partner with Crowell & Moring LLP.

In about a week, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy will have been without a permanent leader for two years. That's 720 days without a Senate confirmed, presidentially appointed executive to lead the administration's acquisition reform and deregulation priorities. And Lesley Field, the deputy OFPP administrator, will become the longest serving OFPP administrator ever, racking up more than four years as acting administrator over the last decade. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about the impact of not having a permanent, senate confirmed head of federal procurement. Jason joins me now to discuss. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss.

On this week’s edition of On DoD, we go a bit deeper into Federal News Radio’s series, Danger at High Speed: OTAs in Action. This edition of the program features some of the extended interviews Scott Maucione conducted with acquisition experts as part of the reporting process for his two-part series on the Defense Department’s use of acquisition authorities: -- Angela Styles, a former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, now a partner at Bracewell. -- David Berteau, the president of the Professional Services Council and a former assistant secretary of Defense for logistics and materiel readiness -- Scott Amey, the general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight

The General Services Administration held its second industry day to better understand how to develop the congressionally mandated e-commerce portal. At the same time, GSA issued two requests for information: One for suppliers and one for platform providers seeking more information to go into its strategy. All of these efforts are trying to alleviate a lot of concern and answer several questions about how the approach will work. Anne Rung is the former administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and now is director of Amazon business government. In one of her first interviews since she left government 18 months ago Rung told Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin why moving to a commercial e-commerce portal can work for government.

The General Services Administration held its second industry day to better understand how to develop the congressionally mandated e-commerce portal. At the same time, GSA issued two requests for information: One for suppliers and one for platform providers seeking more information to go into its strategy. All of these efforts are trying to alleviate a lot of concern and answer several questions about how the approach will work. Anne Rung is the former administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and now is director of Amazon business government. In one of her first interviews since she left government 18 months ago Rung told Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin why moving to a commercial e-commerce portal can work for government.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is shifting its digital services training program from pilot mode to fully operational. Three years after issuing a challenge to the vendor community to help change the way agencies buy technology, the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Program is ready for broad usage. Joanie Newhart is the Associate Administrator for Acquisition Workforce at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and Traci Walker is the director of Digital Service Procurement with the United States Digital Service. They told Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller about why contracting officers will need to and want to obtain a core-plus certification in Contracting for Digital Services over the next few years. Hear the interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been trying to solve contract duplication for almost a decade. But having had only limited success, OFPP is now trying a new approach. The administration is trying to use category management and its little sister .-- best-in-class contracts -- to shrink the list of vehicles for technology, professional services, transportation and logistics and seven other categories where the number of contracts has grown like kudzu. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller has exclusive details on new strategies and goals for category management. He shares that on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Angela Styles, former administrator for Federal Procurement Policy appears on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss how new changes in acquisition rules will give contracting officers more flexibility, while helping small business get a bigger piece of the federal spending pie.

It's been a year since the Office of Federal Procurement Policy released and accepted comments on its draft circular concerning category management. With almost no activity on that circular over the past year, could OFPP be taking a less permanent way to further this approach to buying. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller's got an exclusive look at a new draft memo focused on demand management and best-in-class contracts. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

A thaw in government-industry collaboration for acquisitions has never quite materialized. More than six years since the first so-called mythbusters memo from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the freeze at many agencies remains as deep as permafrost. But there are signs that the sheet of ice is starting to crack. In his weekly Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about reasons for hope that vendors and federal acquisition people can work together a little more effectively.

Kevin Wayne Johnson is a John Maxwell Team certified speaker, teacher, coach and mentor as of October 2015. John C. Maxwell is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership. Kevin Johnson will discuss "golden nuggets" of leadership; speciifcally how to mentor your staff for growth and development. He will also discuss relationship versus "tasking." Johnson, who is also an author, is a professional in government as well as private industry. For 30 years, he has performed successfully in numerous middle and senior-level positions in the areas of workforce development, training, organizational change, acquisition/procurement, customer service, client relationships, and program management, to include the Departments of Defense and Treasury, the Government of the District of Columbia, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Department of the Army, Defense Logistics Agency, and in the private sector at Vivendi Universal and Reuters America. He has testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Small Business and has prepared testimony that was presented before the District of Columbia Committee on Government Operations. Johnson is a graduate of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School’s Executive Potential Program. During this program, he assisted the Office of Federal Procurement Policy with several procurement reform initiatives that were tied to the National Performance Review under the Clinton Administration. Johnson maintains an active involvement in community service and retains membership in several professional and civic organizations. Growing leaders and leaving a legacy of leadership. That's what this show will explore.