What it does: HUD, created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, is responsible for national policy and programs regarding housing. It addresses community housing needs and enforces fair housing laws. It provides rental and housing assistance for those in need, and underwrites mortgage insurance programs for people of lower and moderate income to help them become homeowners.
The General Services Administration has been advised in a new study to streamline some operations run separately within the Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service. However, questions remain whether making the changes will happen, or if the study missed an opportunity to recommend more fundamental restructuring.
A year ago, many industry and government executives were looking ahead to June 25, 2001, as a "panic day," said Terry Weaver, director of the Center for IT Accommodation at the General Services Administration.
The General Accounting Office issued a report May 13 calling the Customs Service's Automated Commercial Environment project "a high-risk endeavor" because of its complexity, the agency's lack of acquisition management controls and the decision to complete the project in four years instead of five.
Federal agencies are not sufficiently tracking their desktop outsourcing projects to measure whether they are achieving savings or other benefits, according to a General Accounting Office report released April 29.
By early next month, agencies will be able to resume leasing IT equipment via the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service Schedule 70.
CACI International Inc. has won a five-year, $31.5 million contract with the U.S. Customs Service to provide enterprisewide information assurance. The contract was awarded through the General Services Administration Program Safeguard contracting vehicle, the company said.
Moving quickly to meet a congressional deadline, the Transportation Security Administration could award a contract as early as May 1 for a program that would install bomb detection devices at all U.S. airports, according to industry officials. The winning contractor will be responsible not only for installing the systems, but also for keeping abreast of technology changes that may develop over the life of the contract, said Raytheon's Dan Burnham.
IBM Corp. won a contract to a develop a Department of Defense financial management enterprise architecture. The blanket purchase agreement has an estimated value of $50 million to $100 million.
Compaq Computer Corp., GTSI Corp., MicronPC LLC and PlanetGov Inc. all won seats on the Veterans Affairs Procurement of Computer Hardware and Software-2 contract vehicle.
Four U.S. government Web sites left the contents of internal databases operated by the Commerce Department's STAT-USA/Internet service as well as the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Federal Judicial Center open to Web surfers. Databases , , allowed remote Internet users to browse documents ranging from correspondence to online order data.
Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., has been selected to provide systems engineering and technical services to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. CSC estimates the value of the contract to be approximately $250 million over five years, if all options are exercised.
Steve Zaidman sighs when asked why the Federal Aviation Administration continues to take heat over its plans for modernizing the country's air traffic management systems.
The Census Bureau is using extensible markup language to speed the layout and assembly of economic census forms that will go to millions of businesses this December.
Computer Sciences Corp. won a task order to provide the Immigration and Naturalization Service with a new system to verify the immigration status of non-U.S. citizens applying for federal, state and local benefits.
What it does: The Education Department's main goal is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence. It operates programs on every area and level of education.
