Daily Rapid Fire: 2011-09-21 | CORs Must Be Govt Employees
Sep 21, 2011 09:00 EDTRelated Stories: Asia - China, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Industry & Trends, T&C - Microsoft
- Harris Corporation opens a 573,000 square-foot plant in Henrietta near Rochester, NY in to consolidate production of tactical radios and other communication systems. About 1,100 people will work there.
- DFARS clarification: a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) must be an employee, military or civilian, of the U.S. Government, a foreign government, or a NATO/coalition partner, in other words private contractors cannot serve as a COR. This rule denies a request from Headquarters NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) to permit the designation of non-U.S. Government employees as CORs in support of the NTM-A’s efforts to train the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF).
- US Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) tweaks its acquisition process by introducing the Acquisition Milestone Agreement (AMA) to replace the Milestone Tracking Report by January next year. This change is meant to reduce the number of missed milestones by making contracting officers team with their requiring counterparts earlier. MICC plans, awards and administers contracts for Army Commands, Direct Reporting Units and other organizations.
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- If Taiwan is confirmed not to get F-16C/Ds but merely upgrades to older planes, then they might ask for F-35s. Come again? Defense News saw a Letter of Intent showing interest going back to 2002 with a focus on short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL), in case conventional runways were destroyed by Chinese missiles.
- Chairman of the US House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon (R-CA) told Fox News that were the supercommittee unable to reach a deal, deep defense spending cuts could mean an it would be tough to stick to an all-volunteer force. AviationWeek says the Pentagon and the defense industry “are joined at the hip” in defending the DoD budget from cuts.
- But if large cuts happen anyway, expect another round of consolidation as well as efforts to increase civilian sales among prime contractors.
- The House of Representatives will vote today on a Continuing Resolution since the FY12 budget has not been wrapped up yet and the new fiscal year is about to begin.
- This morning the House Technology and Innovation Subcommittee is having a hearing on cloud computing with testimonies from VCE (a joint venture between Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel), EMC and Microsoft.
- About-to-retire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the video embedded below:
