It is impossible to eliminate attacks such as the recent MyDoom worm and others, but the government has taken significant steps to keep federal systems safe, the head of cybersecurity at the Homeland Security Department says.
A subsidiary of San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. won a contract to develop a prototype system that will protect military networks from malicious software, such as the recent MyDoom worm.
Federal agencies and their contractors will soon get more guidance on how to do share-in-savings contracting, federal officials said today at a conference about the rarely used procurement method.
Federal and state officials plan to meet Jan. 15 in Washington to brainstorm approaches for dealing with government employees who claim educational degrees from unaccredited institutions or diploma mills.
WorldCom Inc. will not be debarred from government contracting and is now free to pursue any government work, including the option year on one of its biggest contracts, FTS 2001, the GSA announced Wednesday.
The Housing and Urban Development Department is trying to decide the next step it should take on an $860 million IT services contract successfully protested at the General Accounting Office.
The Homeland Security Department sent computer technicians to 115 airports and 14 seaports nationwide to shepherd the launch of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system.
The Office of Management and Budget must do more to ensure the reliability of federal procurement data, including reviewing agency procedures for collecting and reporting information to the Federal Procurement Data System, the General Accounting Office said.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has requested information on commercial software that will sanitize data from existing sensitive databases or generate test data for application development and testing. The independent government agency supervises banks and insures bank deposits.
The Department of Education is looking for research proposals from small businesses in the areas of consulting at the state and local level and development of educational products.
Beginning Jan. 1, small businesses will no longer need to register in both the Small Business Administration's Pro-Net, a database of small businesses, and the Central Contractor Registration, the government's database of all contractors.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font>Computer Sciences Corp. should be replaced if it does not show significant performance improvement on the IRS lengthy modernization project, an oversight board said today.
The General Accounting Office has released a study that finds theDefense Department "does not know exactly how much it is spending oncommercial satellite bandwidth services."
