Vernon J. Edwards
Vern Edwards teaches Federal contracting and writes on the subject for The Nash & Cibinic Report, the Government Contractor, Briefing Papers, and other publications. He founded The FAR Bootcamp®.
Mr. Edwards was a contract negotiator, contracting officer, and director of contracts for the United States Air Force, and worked in a number of Air Force space system program offices, including Space Development Plans, Advanced Ballistic Reentry Systems, Defense Meteorological Satellites, and Space Defense Systems.
Mr. Edwards was appointed a Tri-services Contracting Officer and negotiated independent research and development and bid and proposal cost ceilings for the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Energy.
He was appointed Chief, Plans Division, Deputy for Contracting and Manufacturing, at Headquarters, Air Force Systems Command. Mr. Edwards was Chief of Construction Contracting for the Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, and later was a member of the faculties of The George Washington University, School of Business and Public Management, government contracting program and of The George Washington University Law School Government Contracts Program.
His articles about government contracting have been published in The Federal Acquisition Practitioner, The Nash & Cibinic Report, The Weapons Complex Monitor, Contract Management, the Defense Acquisition Review Journal, and at Where in Federal Contracting? (www.wifcon.com), and have been cited in decisions of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The National Contract Management Association published his monograph on award-term contracting in October of 2000. Management Concepts, Inc., published the second edition of The Source Selection Answer Book, in March 2006. He currently writes for Thomson-Reuters. He is one of the co-authors of The Government Contracts Reference Book, 5th ed., published in 2021 by Wolters-Kluwer, along with Ralph C. Nash, Jr., Karen O’Brien-Debakey, and Steven L. Schooner.
He is a 1974 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles.