<FONT SIZE=2>The IRS launched Free File at IRS.gov, making it possible for 60 percent of taxpayers -- an estimated 78 million Americans -- to file their returns online at no extra cost. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>AT&T Corp. won approval from the Defense Department to compete with Sprint Communications Corp. and WorldCom Inc. for telecommunications services under the FTS2001 contract. </FONT>
Comptroller General David Walker has called upon the Office of Management and Budget to more closely adhere to recommendations of the Commercial Activities Panel in its revised Circular A-76.
RS Information Systems Inc. won a five-year, $409 million Energy Department contract, one of the agency's largest small-business awards, for information technology support.
The Association for Federal Information Resources Management yesterday named Laura Callahan, the Labor Department's deputy CIO, to succeed Debra Stouffer as president.
The Bush administration's request for federal IT funding for fiscal 2004 could increase by more than 15 percent over the 2003 request, OMB's director says.
Thirty-four companies won spots on the General Services AdministrationÕs first multiple-award information technology contract for firms in historically underused business zones.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a $57 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to continue operating the Survivability and Vulnerability Information Analysis Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
<FONT SIZE=2>These are the markets that spurred companies to make acquisitions, restructure operations and invest new resources. Here's where IT executives expect to make money.</FONT>
Raytheon Co., the prime contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration's Integrated Terminal Weather System, said it agrees with an agency investigation that claims the program has suffered from delays and cost overruns caused by expansion of the system's original requirements.
<FONT SIZE=2> Throw out the crystal ball. High-tech executives will have to rely on instinct, experience and up-to-the-minute intelligence to navigate the government IT market in 2003.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Uncertainty and opportunity. The yin and yang for 2003.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>The opportunities are huge in the $ 53.3 billion federal information technology market. Whether it is the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, more outsourcing or the increasing emphasis on e-government, IT will play a central role.</FONT>
A new report projects federal spending on information technology outsourcing services will increase from $6.6 billion to nearly $15 billion by fiscal 2007.
Systems integrator PlanGraphics Inc. has won a task order with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to support its enterprise architecture practice.
Federal agencies that make late interim payments to contractors on cost-reimbursement contracts now are required to pay an interest penalty, according to an Office of Management and Budget final rule.
OMB's Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office will begin soon to determine how to align its blueprint with the assortment of architecture models federal agencies use.
The FBI's mismanagement of IT projects has led the bureau to waste millions of dollars on projects and to miss deadlines for implementing crucial upgrades to anticrime systems, the Justice Department's inspector general said.
