Amid controversy over the burden that homeland security expenses have imposed on state and local governments, the Justice Department announced plans for a survey of international crime and terrorism.<br>
The Defense Department's documented Financial Management Enterprise Architecture will build on the integration and interoperability the Pentagon has made with other military information systems, an official who helped develop the architecture says.
The Central Intelligence Agency is making information sharing a higher priority, said Bobby Brady, the deputy chief information officer at CIA, April 23 at an industry gathering.
A proposed change to the fee agencies pay to use the General Services Administration's multiple-award schedules would result in substantial costs and administrative burdens on contractors and agencies, an IT trade association says.
McDonald Bradley Inc. of Herndon, Va., won two contracts from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Multi-Family Housing, McDonald Bradley officials announced today. The contracts are worth a combined $4.1 million.
Vendors can use an agency's enterprise architecture as a guide to selling their products by showing how the products and services fit into an agency's mission, a market researcher advises.
Federal spending on IT services nearly doubled from 1997 through 2001, with the most significant increase coming through General Services Administration contracts, according to a report from the General Accounting Office.
Software from three companies has been identified as the most reliable in tests of 14 facial recognition products by the National Institute of Standards.
Reliable Integration Services Inc. has been picked as a subcontractor to provide information technology support for networking more than 400 commercial airports for the Transportation Security Administration.
The Navy's new guide for establishing a Navy-Marine Corps Portal says the new portal must be capable of integrating and viewing data using commercial standards for Web services as specified by the service's chief information officer.
AT&T Corp.'s government unit won a $180 million Internal Revenue Service contract to provide toll-free phone services for the 130 million calls made each year to the IRS.
The Air Force has had such poor luck running OMB A-76 competitions to outsource IT that the service no longer considers use of A-76 beneficial, the service's CIO said today.
Congress should give the president fast-track authority to reorganize government agencies to prevent the squabbling that hampered the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a key House lawmaker said today.
Prime contractor IBM Corp. appears to be performing well on the Customs Services' Automated Commercial Environment, the agency's new trade processing system, according to a GAO report.
