Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a $6.6 million contract with NASA's Glenn Research Center to operate a mobile aerospace education laboratory and to install similar laboratories in high-tech classrooms.
Mark Forman and his colleagues at the Office of Management and Budget expect to launch up to 21 first or second iterations of the 24 Quicksilver e-government initiatives during the next four months.
All the clues were there: Student pilots interested in flying planes but not landing them; Osama bin Laden wanting to hijack a plane; funds being transferred to the United States from known bin Laden operatives.
The Senate is expected to take up legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security this month. The House has already passed its version of the legislation, called the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Only 12.8 percent of federal Web sites include e-commerce applications, and only 8.8 percent offer direct links to e-government services, according to a survey of 148 federal Web sites conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, Arlington, Va.
After a year of continuous construction, the section of the Pentagon destroyed Sept. 11, 2001, stands ready to reopen officially on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Sept. 11, 2001 - 8:46 a.m. American Flight 11 hits the north tower of World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. - United Flight 175 hits the south tower. 9:38 a.m. - American Flight 77 hits the Pentagon.
The Pentagon fires were still burning when Tom Buonforte and his team at General Dynamics Network Systems began sifting through the rubble, trying to figure out how they would rebuild the computer and telecommunications networks in the damaged wing.
Only 12.8 percent include e-commerce applications, and only 8.8 percent offer direct links to e-government services, according to a survey of 148 federal Web sites.
The task order from the General Services Administration is to develop a commercial business systems modernization program for the Federal Technology Service.
The General Services Administration has awarded a one-year, $1.9 million contract to AT&T Corp.'s Government Solutions division to provide Web hosting and security services for FirstGov.gov.
Appian Corp., a provider of large-scale, data-driven software solutions, has won a contract with the Navy to provide the technology platform for the service's Knowledge Management Portal, the Arlington, Va., company announced Aug. 19.
Ron Miller, chief information officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, started work Aug. 15 at his new job as part of the Transition Planning Office for the proposed Homeland Security Department. Miller said he will remain with the planning office for an indefinite period of time.
What it does: The Agriculture Department is largely associated with keeping a watch on the nation's food, particularly to ensure the safety of meat, poultry and egg products. It runs federal food and nutrition programs, such as food stamps, school breakfast and lunch programs and the Women-Infants-Children program. It monitors animal and plant safety and health. It protects national forests and grasslands and encourages conservancy of soil, water and wildlife on private lands; provides housing and conveniences to rural America; leads research on food and nutrition matters; and assists farmers and the hungry worldwide.
The Office of Management and Budget intends to temporarily freeze more information technology spending to eliminate redundant IT investments among federal agencies, according to a White House official.
<FONT SIZE=2>The Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center in New Orleans is looking for integration and application support for its electronic publishing system. The system is comprised of IBM servers, EMC software, Sun workstations and Windows 2000 software.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>The Internal Revenue Service intends to award a contract for PC-based, commercial, off-the-shelf actuarial software and support services, including software maintenance, technical support services, professional actuarial services and training.</FONT>
