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Akio Toyoda’s position at the automaker has come under scrutiny over governance concernsPublished Sat, May 24, 2025 · 01:15 PM[TOKYO] Advisory firm Glass Lewis has recommended shareholders re-elect Toyota Motor chairman Akio Toyoda at this year’s annual general meeting in June.Glass Lewis had recommended that shareholders vote against his re-election the past two years. Toyoda’s position at the automaker has come under scrutiny over governance concerns. Toyoda, the grandson of the company’s founder and previously its chief executive, has seen shareholder support slip in recent years. He was re-elected to the board with backing from 72 per cent of the shareholders in…

As Nextgov/FCW reports, the General Services Administration is likely to take over the two most important — and longstanding — GWAC’s outside the agency’s control: NASA SEWP and NIH CIOSP. This is a further expansion of the philosophy outlined in a Trump executive order directing agencies to centralize procurement at GSA.As I have written recently, getting GSA more involved in contracting is a back to the future approach that harkens back to the period between the establishment of GSA in 1949 and the procurement reforms of the 90’s, when GSA did a lot of the buying for the federal government. The changes in the 90’s…

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