With controversy about the newly formed Chief Information Security Officers Exchange marring its debut, there's a push under way for the Industry Advisory Council to take over the mission.
OFPP and OMB's IT and E-Government Office will soon send a memo to agency officials reminding them that it is against the FAR to name a specific product in a procurement without a written justification.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Homeland Security Department this week kicked into high gear the cybersecurity Line of Business effort by releasing to industry a request for information.
Representative from the federal government and the information technology industry yesterday unveiled a Web site to educate federal workers about the benefits of telecommuting and to calculate cost savings.
The General Services Administration's new chief acquisition officer wants to focus on the agency's compliance with federal acquisition rules, the skills of its acquisition workforce and small businesses' participation in federal procurements.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation awarded four contractors a 10-year, $550 million contract to provide information technology application services.
The federal government has advised prospective vendors that it has delayed its schedule and changed its requirements for a multibillion-dollar makeover of federal wireless voice and data communications.
The Transportation Security Administration has addressed fully only one of the 10 areas of congressional interest related to development of its Secure Flight airline passenger screening system.
The coastal communication system is at risk for spiraling costs and schedule slippage because it requires hundreds of coastline towers to be built on environmentally sensitive sites.
The Government Accountability Office has thwarted a $1 billion Treasury Department award to AT&T Corp. after it learned that agency had entered into an agreement that encouraged it to let the contract expire early.
IBM has protested a tentative award by the Texas health commission of a contract for integrated eligibility and enforcement for Medicaid and other state health services to Accenture.
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED</font color> The Government Accountability Office has sustained protests filed by three companies against the Treasury Department's award of the $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract to AT&T.
The bill allocates money for high-tech hardware for the troops as well as homeland security programs, and provisions to regulate government-issued ID cards.
