OMB, which houses the procurement policy office, called the circular aimed at improving agency access to governmentwide acquisition data “a paradigm shift.”

The new standard is intended to improve contract mobility between the Pentagon and other government departments.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy sets overall policy direction for governmentwide procurement procedures.

The role was most recently held by Michael Wooten under the Trump administration.

The next evolution in category management has a big role to play in helping agencies understand emerging technology markets.

The Procurement Innovation Lab added 10 agencies and eliminated two companies from consideration as they continue to refine their prototypes.

That was one of four ACT-IAC recommendations for making government more agile ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Dale Cabaniss said she's ready to work with the agency's tech leaders and its inspector general.

Acquisition teams are finding opportunities to automate burdensome and manual workloads with the novel, emerging tech.

Michael Wooten is the president's pick to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. He most recently was a procurement adviser at the Department of Education.