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    Five Tools to Increase your Win Rates
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    The Air Force Materiel Command is initiating a new acquisition strategy to become more efficient....

    The Defense Department is urging all prime contractors to accelerate their payments to small subcontractors...

    TechAmerica Foundation downgraded its forecast of annual federal information technology spending to $73.5 billion this fiscal year...

    Federal acquisition specialists are hesitant about the recent proposal to overhaul federal information technology purchases advanced by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA....

    White House officials are planning to release a governmentwide open data policy on Nov. 23....

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