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National Defense
January 2011
Stafford & Stapleton |
New Executive Pay Rules Go Into Effect The comment period recently ended for an interim rule, "Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards," which implements the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.   |
National Defense
March 2008
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Small Business Innovation Research: Renew it Now! Congress should extend SBIR and by doing so, it will send a reassuring message to the nation's small businesses -- the most efficient and innovative job creators. |
Inc.
September 2008 |
Ask Inc.: Selling to the Government How to break into the government's supply chain. |
Inc.
September 18, 2002
Carole Matthews |
Developing an R&D Relationship John Lisy, vice president and chief operating officer of Orbital Research, offers his top tips for developing solid research and development relationships with large companies. |
National Defense
June 2006
Stuart B. Nibley |
Defense Production Act Speeds Up Wartime Purchases The DPA is laced with provisions and omissions that leave gaps in the traditional relationship between the government and its contractors. Patriotic contractors will embrace the opportunity to assist the federal government. However, in doing so, they also must remain contractually agile and ever vigilant in guarding their legal rights. |
National Defense
July 2006 |
It Does Not Pay to Be `Too Relevant' Skyrocketing War Costs Are Putting Pressure on the Pentagon... Politicians Should Help the Troops... Military Must Learn to Live With Contractors... Navy Making Tough Calls in Aviation... |
National Defense
November 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Fails To Capture Available Technologies In the race to secure the latest and greatest technologies from the private sector and university labs, the Pentagon often comes up short. |
National Defense
May 2015
Allyson Versprille |
DHS Rolls Out Cyber Security Program for Federal Agencies Phase one of the Department of Homeland Security's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program will be completed by the end of summer, said an executive at Dell Inc., a technology supplier to the competing contractors. |
National Defense
June 2010
Michael W. Murphy |
To Defeat Today's Threats, the Pentagon Needs Innovative 'Mid-Tier' Contractors One of the biggest issues facing U.S. intelligence agencies is how to ensure the government gets the most value out of its industrial base in order to defeat the threats it faces today and in the future. |
National Defense
October 2013
Thompson & White |
Making the Case for Irrational Behavior As U.S. defense spending decreases from a gush to a trickle, contractors are desperately competing for market share. Programs are being canceled, curtailed and restructured. |
National Defense
December 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger. |
Science News
December 6, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Megaprime Champion The catalog of humongous prime numbers has a new entry -- the champion prime (2^20996011 - 1), which has 6,320,430 decimal digits. It's the largest known prime number and the 40th Mersenne prime ever found. |
Parameters
Autumn 2008
Steven L. Schooner |
Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future. |
National Defense
November 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Pentagon Still Undecided on Policies to Protect Contractors As contractors increasingly fall in the cross hairs of insurgents in Iraq, the Defense Department is struggling to figure out how to account for them, provide for their security and, if necessary, rescue them. |
Science News
January 14, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Team Mersenne A Central Missouri State University computer identified the 43rd Mersenne prime, setting the record for the largest known prime number. This behemoth, 2 30402457 - 1, runs to a whopping 9,152,052 decimal digits. |
InternetNews
December 28, 2005
Sharon Gaudin |
Grid Discovers Largest Known Prime Number Using an international grid of about 70,000 computers, researchers this month discovered the largest known prime number. |
Entrepreneur
February 2006
Joshua Kurlantzick |
For the People Landing government contracts is tough for small firms -- but it can be done. Learn from these entrepreneurs, and Uncle Sam could become your biggest client. |
Science News
April 24, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Progressive Primes In one step toward elucidating certain primal mysteries, two mathematicians have now apparently proved that the population of primes contains an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions. |
National Defense
August 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Proposed Rules on Counterfeit Parts Puts Onus on Industry If implemented, new Defense Department regulations could leave contractors to foot the bill for the use of counterfeit parts. |
National Defense
October 2010
McGrath & Stapleton |
New Amendment To Change Employee Litigation Rules The Franken Amendment bars defense contractors and subcontractors from requiring employees, as a condition of employment, to agree to mandatory arbitration of discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Spencer E. Ante |
The Other U.S. Military The private military contractor biz is hot, vast, and largely unregulated. Is it out of control? |
National Defense
March 2007
Ebner & Menker |
Message to Industry: `Do the Right Thing' Recent headlines have raised concerns about how federal procurements were handled on a variety of levels. Introduced last fall, a bill entitled the Clean Contracting Act may pass in the 110th Congress. These proposed changes are a harbinger of things that may come. |
National Defense
March 2014
Hill & Haas |
New Rule Forces Contractors to Report Cybersecurity Incidents The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement Final Rule, issued Nov. 18, will provide increased protections for unclassified controlled technical information residing on or transiting through the networks of defense contractors and their subcontractors. |
National Defense
November 2014
Tompkins et al. |
Executive Orders Require Vendors' Attention While the use of executive orders and the federal procurement process to implement non-procurement policy are not new phenomena, contractors should consider these issues with renewed focus. |
Science News
June 5, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Priming Upward The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) continues to unearth new Mersenne primes. |
Science News
August 27, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Primes, Palindromes, and Pyramids Many questions about palidromic prime pyramids remain open. Is there a better way than exhaustive search for finding the tallest pyramids with fixed step sizes? Can you prove that fixed step size pyramids are finite? |
National Defense
July 2010
Alison Brown |
Companies Raise Intellectual Property Protection Issues A survey by the National Defense Industrial Association reports instances where government employees improperly handled proprietary technical data, including the release of information to competitors. |
BusinessWeek
July 31, 2006
Dawn Kopecki |
When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense? |
National Defense
September 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
New Whistleblower Law: What It Means for DoD Contractors Thanks to a new contractor whistleblower protection law, the Inspector General hotline might begin to ring more often in the years ahead, government officials and watchdog groups predict. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
Stan Crock |
Less Bang For The Big Guns The defense biz is hot, but the most profitable contractors are the little guys. While the primes want to emphasize their improved return on investment, the subs are beating them at that game, too. |
National Defense
May 2012
Stafford & Kaprove |
Mitigating the Risk of Defense Base Act Insurance The Defense Base Act requires many U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to provide workers' compensation insurance to their overseas-based employees working on U.S. military bases and government projects. |
Science News
July 16, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Closing the Gap on Twin Primes Euclid proved that the set of primes is infinite in size more than 2000 years ago, but no one has yet proved whether there is an infinite number of twin primes, or pairs of primes that have a difference of two. There's now hope that that matter will finally be resolved. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Brad Stone |
What's in Amazon's Box? Instant Gratification Customers love Prime, Amazon's two-day shipping program. Now rivals such as Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and J.C. Penney are copying it |
BusinessWeek
November 18, 2010
Giegner & Krause-Jackson |
After U.S. Troops Leave Iraq, the State Dept. Steps In The State Dept. is hiring thousands of contractors to help it assume duties in Iraq once the last of the troops departs in a year. |
National Defense
May 2008
Moorhouse & Connolly |
Contractors' Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny Contractors may soon be required to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest. |
Science News
January 11, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Remarkable Dearth of Primes The pursuit of prime numbers -- integers evenly divisible only by themselves and 1 -- can lead to all sorts of curious results and unexpected patterns. In some instances, you may even encounter a mysterious absence of primes. |
National Defense
January 2009
Reeder & Connolly |
Conflict-of-Interest Plight Can Be Avoided Recently, one of the nation's largest government contractors faced a federal jury verdict that it violated the False Claims Act and breached two contracts with an independent federal agency based on failure to disclose conflicts of interest. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Amazon's Prime Day Sales Broke Black Friday Records Yesterday's much-vaunted Prime Day -- which coupled a P.T. Barnum-style marketing blitz with a discount arms race -- apparently went very, very well for Amazon. |
National Defense
January 2012
David Hickey |
Cutting Costs Does Not Require Cutting Compliance Lest anyone think the federal government will tolerate less contractor compliance, the current environment indicates that it is much more likely that the government will pursue allegations of non-compliance, fraud, waste and abuse with even greater vigor. |
National Defense
May 2015
Teka Thomas |
DoD Can Motivate Tech Industry to Work On Defense Programs For Pentagon program managers and contracting officers looking at Northern California's ecosystem, understand that the technology, and the right to control the use of that technology is the coin of the realm |
Science News
October 11, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Goldbach Computations Goldbach's conjecture that every even number larger than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers remains unproven, but recent research may provide some insight. |
National Defense
April 2012
McGrath & Jack |
Publicly Available Information Should Be Promptly Reviewed As of Jan. 3, contractors have seven calendar days to review information after it is posted in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System and object to its public release if a Freedom of Information Act exemption applies. |
Science News
May 4, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Spirals There is truly not only mystery but also beauty in the distribution of prime numbers... |
Wall Street & Technology
February 14, 2006
Paul Allen |
Prime Time for Primes Once an esoteric business controlled by three players, the prime brokerage business has become a hotbed of competition as rival banks and brokers have sought to profit from the hedge fund explosion. |
National Defense
January 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Software Improves Connections to Robots Troops who rely on robots for various missions are increasingly being handicapped by limited radio ranges and airwaves jamming. |
National Defense
May 2010
Dorn C. McGrath |
Contractors Must Begin to Update Integrity Database The National Defense Authorization Act of 2009 now requires the government to develop and maintain an information system containing specific information on the integrity and performance of federal contractors and grantees. |
