*** Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, launched a probe into whether the political activities of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violate internal State Department policy and the Hatch Act.
*** The General Services Administration's robotics, space platform and drone contract vehicle ASTRO hit the streets this week, Washington Technology reports. One major change from the way big IDIQ contracts typically work is that vendors will not be competing on price or cost to win a seat on ASTRO, but pricing will be competed at the task-order level.
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