Technology Innovation Program (TIP) Competition
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| August 15, 2008 |
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The Technology Innovation Program (TIP), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and US Department of Commerce (DoC), is soliciting high risk, high reward research and development proposals.
Due date is September 4, 2008.
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DHS Announces New Grant Program
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| August 3, 2008 |
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The department's Office of Emergency Communications developed the NECP in cooperation with more than 150 public and private sector emergency communications officials. The department's new Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program will further enable states to align their plans with the NECP.
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House passes construction-VA spending bill
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| August 1, 2008 |
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In its final major act before adjourning for recess, the House voted 409-4 Friday to approve the fiscal 2009 Military Construction-VA spending bill that would provide $72.7 billion in discretionary funding for military construction initiatives and veterans programs.
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Fab Lab brings MIT tech transfer to Wisconsin
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| July 30, 2008 |
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Appleton, Wis. - Fabrication Laboratories, or Fab Labs, are an exercise in global technology sharing spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Wisconsin technical college is putting an entrepreneurial spin on them.
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FY 2008 Homeland Security Grant Program Awards
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| July 25, 2008 |
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Secretary Chertoff: Welcome. I'm glad you could join us here on a very sunny day to talk about the final allocations for several of our grant programs which are designed to help states and localities enhance their capabilities to prevent, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism and other hazards and emergencies in their communities.
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Procurement mission at Hill transfers to DLA
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| July 20, 2008 |
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June 17 activation ceremony at the Hill Aerospace Museum marked the transfer of 43 Air Force employees to the Defense Logistics Agency here.
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Senate moves military construction bill
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| July 18, 2008 |
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The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the fiscal 2009 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs funding bill Thursday but only after resolving a dispute that brought a highly unusual partisan 15-14 split on the initial vote for approval.
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Wisconsin R&D 2008
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| July 18, 2008 |
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Wisconsin contractors earned $194 million in federal R&D
contract expenditures in FY 2007.
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OMB to release performance evaluations
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| July 16, 2008 |
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The Office of Management and Budget will release evaluations of the performance of agencies’ major programs by early September, and it expects agencies to use more effective measures to gauge their strengths and weaknesses compared with previous results, Robert Shea, OMB's associate director for management, said recently.
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Agencies competed 64 percent in 2007
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| July 15, 2008 |
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Federal agencies subjected 64 percent of their contracting dollars to some form of competition last year, according to an Office of Management and Budget official.
That is the same amount of competition that agencies conducted for contracted goods and services in the previous two years: 2005 and 2006.
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VA Requires Verification of Veteran Owned Business
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| July 11, 2008 |
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The VA published new interim regulations (http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10489.htm) requiring VA contracting officers to verify ownership and control of veteran-owned small businesses (VOSB), including service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB). A VA contracting officer may restrict competition for a requirement to a SDVOSB or to a VOSB if that business is listed as “verified” in the Vendor Information Pages (VIP) database at http://VetBiz.gov.
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DOD Announces Empoyer Support Freedom Award
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| July 10, 2008 |
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Department of Defense Announces 2008 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award Recipients
Fifteen Employers Nationwide Receive Top Honor for Guard and Reserve Support
ARLINGTON, VA – The Department of Defense has announced the 2008 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award recipients. The Freedom Award is the highest recognition given by the U.S. Government to employers for their outstanding support of their employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. The 2008 recipients include:
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Bush names Small Business Administration Chief
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| June 25, 2008 |
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President Bush has picked Sandy Baruah, an assistant secretary of commerce, to lead the Small Business Administration.
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Cooperative purchasing bill close to becoming law
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| June 11, 2008 |
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The Senate has approved a bill that would allow state and local governments to purchase law enforcement, firefighting and security products and services through a General Services Administration supply schedule.
On Tuesday evening, the Senate agreed by unanimous consent to pass H.R. 3179, also known as the Local Preparedness Acquisition Act.
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DARPA’s Commander’s Aid: From OODA to Deep Green
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| June 3, 2008 |
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DID readers send us some interesting tips. The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency handles futuristic research projects that would be too difficult for the normal defense program R&D process (one of those projects became the Internet). Now its Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) is turning its attention to a project called “Deep Green,” which aims to provide US commanders with significantly better decision support tools in battle.
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