Contract professionals feel like fall guys.

• Author: Erwin, Sandra I.
• Position: WASHINGTON PULSE: NEWS FROM INSIDE THE BELTWAY

* The crowd was rather dispirited at the recent National Contract Management Association World Congress in Long Beach, Calif., wrote Steve Kelman in his Federal Computer Week blog.

"The mood at the events ... has been, I guess I would say, put-upon," said Kelman, a federal procurement expert. "Contracting professionals are not regarding the country's political leader ship, either in Congress or the White House, as an ally or supportive in their efforts to achieve better contracting outcomes," he said. "Instead, they are seen primarily as the source of politically driven but substantively dubious...