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Carten Cordell

Carten Cordell is a Senior Technology Reporter for FedScoop. He is a former workforce and acquisition reporter at Federal Times, having previously served as online editor for Northern Virginia Magazine and Investigative Reporter for Watchdog.org, Virginia Bureau. Carten was a 2014 National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellow and has a Master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is also a graduate of Auburn University and promises to temper his passions for college football while in the office.

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OMB, GSA leaders highlight Technology Business Management framework’s early wins

Acquisition

Defense Innovation Board chairman Eric Schmidt told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the DoD’s culture of bureaucracy is inhibiting innovation. Photo by JD Lasica/Flickr.

What’s impeding the DOD’s push for innovation? Turns out, a lot

Defense

Airmen from the 90th Missile Maintenance Squadron prepare a reentry system for removal from a launch facility, Feb. 2, 2018, in the F. E. Warren Air Force Base missile complex. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency issued a Broad Agency Agreement on April 16 seeking new nuclear threat technology. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Braydon Williams)

Defense agency calls for new nuclear detection tech

Defense

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FBI weighs $5B ‘all-encompassing’ IT contract for Justice Department

Acquisition

Rep. Virginia Foxx (House Education and the Workforce Committee / Flickr)

GREAT Act proponents hope for ‘organic’ grants transformation

Tech

Kevin Meiners, assistant director of national intelligence for acquisition, technology and facilities, speaking at Tuesday’s INSA Symposium on acquisition, said that industry would play a huge role in reshaping the intelligence community’s acquisition process. (Photo by INSA)

Intelligence office needs industry help to attain ‘acquisition agility’

Acquisition

Kevin Meiners (Flickr/GEOINT)

ODNI to divide CIO, CDO roles on tech and policy

Acquisition

Petty Officer 3rd Class Amber Degouveia, a health series technician assigned to Coast Guard Base Alameda Medical in California, administers the intranasal flu vaccine to a Coast Guard member in October 2015. (Image credit: U.S. Coast Guard / Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena)

Coast Guard to adopt DoD’s health records system

Acquisition

cybersecurity — (Getty)

Will the White House’s plan to retrain feds for IT win over the public sector?

Workforce