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April 17, 2019 By AMK

Acquisition is ‘ripe for emerging technology,’ says OFPP’s Newhart

The White House’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) is targeting opportunities to use emerging technologies to improve the federal acquisition process.

Joanie Newhart, associate administrator of acquisition workforce programs within OFPP, said at FedScoop’s 2019 IT Modernization Summit.  She said that her office and the federal Chief Acquisition Officer Council are “focused on emerging technology and how can we use it in acquisition. We think it’s going to explode this year, so we want to get in front of it and use it wisely.”

While many federal agencies are still trying to grasp how they might use emerging technologies, like automation and artificial intelligence, to drive mission outcomes, many support offices, such as acquisition teams, are finding opportunities to automate burdensome and manual workloads with the novel tech.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.fedscoop.com/emerging-technology-ofpp-joanie-newhart/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Acquisition Modernization Plan, acquisition reform, AI, artificial intelligence, Chief Acquisition Officer Council, emerging technology, innovation, OFPP, OMB, procurement reform, robotics

December 21, 2015 By AMK

Transforming the federal marketplace: Reflection at Year One

Dec. 4th marked a significant anniversary in the procurement community — the one-year anniversary of the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Anne Rung’s memorandum for all Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives entitled, Transforming the Marketplace: Simplifying Federal Procurement to Improve Performance, Drive Innovation, and Increase Savings.

OFPPAnniversaries are a time of reflection, evaluation and motivation. Indeed, in just a few short weeks, one of our most significant anniversaries will be upon us, New Year’s Day.  Each year all of us look back upon our successes, as well as our shortcomings, and make commitments to better ourselves in the New Year.

Rung’s memorandum, which sets forth the administration’s vision for improving the procurement system, contained many promising themes that were welcomed by many as timely and encouraging. Many of these themes were detailed in the Far and Beyond Blog from Dec. 12 of last year. With its first anniversary upon us, today presents a significant opportunity to reflect upon the OFPP memorandum and its impact on commercial item contracting.

Keep reading this article at: http://federalnewsradio.com/commentary/2015/12/transforming-the-federal-marketplace-reflection-at-year-one/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, Chief Acquisition Officer Council, FAR, FAR Council, GSA, OFPP, procurement reform

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