The Armed Services Committee stuck to the recommendations of a subcommittee and approved the reduction in the Defense Department's $30 billion fiscal 2006 IT budget request.
The House of Representatives has approved a $31.9 billion budget for the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2006, and is preparing to pass the first legislation to authorize the department since it was created in 2002.
Titan Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. each have $200 million contracts to compete for work involving the independent verification and validation of software.
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology announced a solicitation to help fast-track commercialization of technologies for the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
Most homeland security IT initiatives may be near completion for federal agencies governmentwide, according to the new 2005 Federal IT Marketing Report.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the market for enterprise tools to sift through the hundreds of terabytes of security-related data it collects.
Researchers contend the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program's method for matching fingerprints with images may have a detection probability of only 53 percent.
The Health and Human Services Department has released presolicitation notices for the development of a nationwide health information network architecture.
The Defense Department will release a request for proposals to obtain technologies that would add bandwidth to the Defense Information Systems Network.
Qwest Communications International Inc. has won a subcontract to provide enhanced networking capability to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Department.
The Small Business Administration now is responsible for establishing the certification of small businesses as small disadvantaged, 8 (a) certified or HUBZone-certified.
The Office of Management and Budget is not adequately monitoring $22 billion worth of mission-critical federal IT projects, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released today.
Promotional materials aren't going to sell the Office of Management and Budget on how a vendor can best consolidate and standardize IT security, said John Sindelar, OMB's Line of Business Consolidation initiatives program executive.
Despite pressure from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the Defense Department's Inspector General Office has had to suspend a pair of audits evaluating the department's acquisition processes and commercial criteria justifications because of a lack of resources.
The Homeland Security Department was "a day late and a dollar short" in posting its annual mandated performance review on its Web site in December, according to a new study of performance-based accountability for 23 federal agencies.
