Veterans Affairs has put out a draft request for proposals to modernize the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, known as VistA.
Homeland Security Department officials are grappling with the need to slow the pace of the department's human resources system project after Congress slashed its funding.
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration about hardware and software for developing systems to process electronically drug label information.
HERSHEY, Pa. ? The Homeland Security Department will set up a working capital fund to pay for its IT infrastructure consolidation work. Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper said yesterday that the Homeland Security Department Financial Accountability Act lets the agency use funding from each directorate to pay for intra-agency projects.
HERSHEY, Pa. ? The Office of Management and Budget is considering an innovation fund to pay for its lines-of-business consolidation projects. "It would be similar to a governmentwide working capital fund," said John Sindelar, OMB's program manager for the e-government initiative.
Homeland Security Department CIO Steve Cooper gained clout and the funding to go with it President George W. Bush signed the Homeland Security Department's appropriations bill into law last week.
The Defense Department isn't only worried about the General Services Administration's contracting practices; it wants to make sure all the other agencies its contracting officers do business with are getting it right.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a six-year, $29.4 million contract from a National Institutes of Health to develop a database and Web portal to centralize and integrate immunology data.
By Nov. 12, agencies must send annual reports on their competitive sourcing efforts to the Office of Management and Budget. OMB will then report the results to Congress.
The government has released a detailed description of its plan for the multibillion-dollar Integrated Wireless Network and is asking vendors for comments. The network is an effort of the Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury departments to build a wireless voice and data communications network for law enforcement users.
Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC won six new contracts worth more than $20 million to provide a range of services to the Housing and Urban Development Department,including development of the department's enterprise architecture.
"Increased adoption of information technology will speed the transformation of health care services in this nation," said Secretary Tommy Thompson of the grants awarded by Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The Veterans Affairs Department will ask vendors for proposals on how they would ensure that the department's new communications systems will keep its business operations running.
The Office of Management and Budget is going after the paper pushers again, asking agencies to identify three initiatives that can reduce the paperwork burden on the public.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to issue a request for proposals in early November to update and maintain its medical claims processing system for Medicare Part B.
EDS Corp. and the Navy yesterday signed two contract modifications on the $8.82 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program that reduce the number of service-level agreements and allow EDS to begin billing 100 percent for each seat in the huge project.
The Defense Department will be able to award 8(a) contracts to small businesses on behalf of the Small Business Administration for an additional year. The partnership extension is effective today.
SRA International Inc. is going to help the Small Business Administration upgrade its Disaster Credit Management System under a $13.9 million task order.
