An industry association is concerned that the Defense Department is haphazardly shifting work from contractors to federal officials without careful analysis on who can provide the best value for ...

President Obama toured a Master Lock factory in Milwaukee on Wednesday to urge manufacturers to return jobs to the United States-- part of a wider plan by his administration to increase the number of ...

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced in August that the Pentagon was scaling back its insourcing initiative because it wasn't generating enough cost savings, many in the contracting universe ...

The military services and some nonmilitary Defense Department organizations will continue with plans to bring thousands of private-sector jobs in-house despite an Aug. 9 statement by Defense Secretary ...

Both the House and the Senate are attempting to take a more focused approach to acquisition reform in their respective versions of defense authorization bills, two industry experts today said.

Reviewed by David Kindness Fact checked by Yarilet Perez Key Takeaways Outsourcing involves hiring external organizations to complete specific business tasks.Insourcing is performed within a company's ...

Most people and most companies understand the term and concept of outsourced development. True to tech, we’ve coined a new term, with a twist: insourced development. Before the term insourcing, ...

The process of trying to decide if your organization should outsource a function is tedious and can be hair-raising. You’ll want to weigh a number of factors during the decision-making process. Let’s ...

Early last year, President Obama met with top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. After decades of watching companies outsource jobs to other countries, the president wondered, can we bring them back by ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you rip pages out of business schools textbooks, you’ll find they echo a similar sentiment: Outsourcing is in. The commonly read book, ...

As the cost of anesthesia continues to rise, hospitals and health systems are grappling with increased financial pressure. Provider costs have surged, while Medicare reimbursement has fallen, and ...