Defense officials and contractors in the U.S. and U.K. recently endorsed standards for secure e-mail circulated by the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> Rep. Henry Waxman today accused TSA of sloppy acquisition management and an apparent conflict of interest in the 2006 hiring of a Virginia contractor whose work put at risk the personal information of thousands of travelers.
States want to use IT to improve the quality of health care services and reduce health care costs in response to President Bush's mandate for an improved national health care system.
Small and woman-owned businesses will face more scrutiny this year and perhaps fewer awards, largely due to the new recertification rule introduced by the SBA and a proposed SBA rule change to the women's contracting program.
Whether it is the integration of a recent acquisition or the new economic and political climate, change is in the wind, and business development professionals have to deal with it.
DOD has issued several new contracting rules, including one that restricts lead systems integrators with a financial interest in an acquisition from working on it.
Unisys Corp. might sell its federal business unit if it agrees to the demand of a major stockholder to take the step and end what it called the company's "ruinous stock-price performance."
Pragmatics Inc. will assume some management and administrative operations for the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate under a new $2.4 million task order.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. will acquire Syan Holdings Ltd., a provider of information technology outsourcing services, for about $60 million in an all-cash deal.
Areas such as health care, energy, environment and education will probably see new government initiatives that require new IT and service programs to support them.
