The NRC is responsible for protecting the public and the environment from the effects of radiation from nuclear reactors, materials and waste facilities through regulations, security, licensing and monitoring.
WorldCom Inc.'s legal and financial woes are rippling through the government marketplace, sparking a review of the company's federal contracts and raising concerns about its ability to continue providing services.
The Defense Department has rethought plans to disqualify foreign nationals from jobs that include handling unclassified but sensitive information technology.
Federal Aviation Administration head Jane Garvey and the Transportation Department's inspector general are feuding over public release of a memo critical of STARS, a new air traffic control system being deployed across the country by Raytheon Co., Lexington, Mass.
The Transportation Security Administration is being asked to go from zero to 50,000 ? people, that is ? in one year. Signed into existence by President Bush Nov. 19, 2001, as one of the first homeland security initiatives, the TSA was created in part to provide the infrastructure for protecting the nation's airports and travelers.
President Bush's proposed Homeland Security Department will rely heavily on data sharing and analysis to combat terrorist threats, and will require a systems infrastructure to support that mission -- a complex integration challenge that already has information technology companies scrambling for a piece of the action.
<b>Address:</b> 409 3rd Street SW, Washington, DC 20416<br><b>Telephone:</b> (800) U-ASK-SBA<br><b>Web site:</b> www.sba.gov<br><b>Founded:</b> 1953<br><b>Administrator:</b> Hector Barreto <br><b>Employees:</b> 3,026 permanent employees, 1,221 temporary employees for disasters<br><b>What it does:</b> SBA provides financial, technical and management assistance to help start, run and grow small businesses. It is the largest single financial backer of such businesses, and provides loans, loan guarantees and disaster loans worth more than $45 billion. It also has a venture capital portfolio of $13 billion. <br><b>Major subagencies:</b> 93 field offices nationwide
Government and information technology industry officials are anxiously awaiting a new federal procurement rule, to be issued June 26, that is meant to ensure adequate competition on Defense Department multiple-award contracts.
As White House officials consider new rules to replace the A-76 process for private-public competition, several lawmakers are preparing to re-introduce legislation that would make it more difficult to outsource government work to the private sector.
The General Accounting Office has ordered NASA to reconsider the January award of a $143 million contract to DynCorp after a subsidiary of Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. protested the choice, claiming the agency's "best value" determination was flawed.
The new Homeland Security Department announced June 6 by the Bush administration will affect scores of major programs and contractors as the government attempts to pull together parts of 19 different agencies and organizations to create a unified front against terrorism. The creation of the department could lead to the most ambitious information-sharing architecture in history, producing "a single daily picture of threats," President Bush said during an address to the nation.
Debra Stouffer has become the Environmental Protection Agency's first chief technology officer. She previously was deputy CIO at the Housing and Urban Development Department, a position she had held since May 1999.
The biggest challenge faced by the Environmental Protection Agency is the need to integrate information across multiple levels of government. CIO Kimber Nelson is looking for talented contractors ready to take on that task.
The biggest challenge faced by the Environmental Protection Agency is the need to integrate information across multiple levels of government. CIO Kimber Nelson is looking for talented contractors ready to take on that task.
