• 8/16/24: Revamping Federal Systems: Innovations in Acquisition, Defense and TSP Management

  • Aug 15 2024
  • Length: 36 mins
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8/16/24: Revamping Federal Systems: Innovations in Acquisition, Defense and TSP Management

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  • The Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration has a unique opportunity to reshape itself, and that reshaping could happen through five ideas. That’s according to Larry Allen, President of Allen Federal Business Partners. He’s writing about those five ideas in his “Week Ahead” newsletter, and he explains his five ideas on today’s show.

    More than 35,000 professionals inside the Defense Department make up the pricing and contracting workforce. The composition of that workforce, and the skills they need to do the job, are changing as technology and other factors change. At the National Contract Management Association’s World Congress recently,     John Tenaglia, Principal Director for Defense Pricing and Contracting at the Defense Department, tells me he looks at talent building in two different ways.

    The     Thrift Savings Plan’s Converge record-keeping system is more than two years old now. The TSP encountered a number of problems with the deployment of the system starting in July of 2022. Jennifer Franks, Director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity at the Government Accountability Office, reviewed the implementation of the system, and tells you what she found.
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