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America’s Vaccine Towns
With the first summer out of quarantine since the coronavirus pandemic began, families are planning where to spend their long-awaited summer vacation. Rather than the beaches or Disney World, however, travelers are flocking to towns such as Plattsburgh, NY, Habersham County, GA, and Quincy,...
Strengthening the Microelectronics Industrial Base: Recent Federal Investments
A new slate of federal announcements highlights continued progress in bolstering the U.S. microelectronics industrial base. The Department of Commerce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are continuing to drive critical...
Public Spend Forum & GovShop — Quick Guidelines for Guest Authors
These guidelines are for guest authors wishing to contribute articles to the Public Spend Forum or GovShop blog. Our expanding base of public and private sector contributors includes subject matter experts, thought leaders, innovators, practitioners and senior procurement executives who wish to...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Federal agencies are cutting procurement time with PROPRICER, Amazon pitches facial recognition tech to ICE amid controversy, and a new report shows poor debriefings can lead to bid protests. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for November 2, 2018.
Agencies, Contractors...
Public Spend Forum Announces Partnership with The Shatter Fund
Public Spend Forum is proud to announce a partnership with the Shatter Fund, a fund exclusively focused on investing in high potential disruptive technology companies led by female entrepreneurs.
This partnership furthers PSF’s mission to create Open Government Markets by lowering the barriers...
Scaling Nontraditional Defense Innovation: Insights from the Defense Innovation Board
In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, innovation is more critical than ever for national security. The Defense Innovation Board (DIB) recently released a comprehensive report, “Scaling Nontraditional Defense Innovation,” offering actionable recommendations to integrate and scale...
Trump Administration’s $13 Billion Funding to COVID Syringes
It has been almost twelve months since the Trump administration had awarded federal loans and contracts worth up to $1.3 billion to supply what was once considered an essential syringe to combat Covid-19. The fortunate firm receiving the majority of this funding, ApiJect Systems Corporation, has...
A Careful Balance
“Dustin, is anyone talking about how deeply connected schools re-opening and governments re-opening is? Because they need to be.” (Client last week).
OK, let’s talk about it then.
On March 13th, President Trump declared a national emergency, and guidelines were quickly issued to avoid social...
Strengthening Semiconductor Leadership: CHIPS Act Awards to Samsung, TI, and Amkor
Just before the holiday season, the Department of Commerce announced three significant CHIPS Act awards to Samsung, Texas Instruments, and Amkor. These investments reflect ongoing efforts to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry, strengthen supply chain resilience, and enhance technological...
XR Women x GovShop
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GovShop is a free match-making platform that brings together companies like yours and government buyers in a single, connected marketplace. Government buyers from over 250 agencies across Federal, state and local agencies and using...
Supercharging Spending and Supply Chain Visibility for IT Services
As part of its innovation efforts, a US Army team wanted to get deeper visibility into its IT Services spending and prioritize opportunities to engage more non-traditional and underserved companies
Instead of traditional, manual research and analysis methods, it decided to utilize PSF’s AI-MI (AI...
Driving Innovative Defense Tech: DoD and SBA Invest in Critical Technologies with SBICCT Initiative
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) have announced the inaugural group of investment funds licensed under the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology (SBICCT) Initiative. This program is designed to...
