The General Accounting Office has found that a Navy agency is regularly buying large numbers of information technology systems in the early stages of contracts and before the systems have completed testing.
Unisys Corp. has received a blanket purchase agreement from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that extends its seat management services to 2004.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won the National Security Agency's Groundbreaker contract, a $2 billion-plus, 10-year information technology outsourcing project. NSA expects the contract to be fully operational in November, two months ahead of the original schedule.
The Naval Air Warfare Center chose Eagan, McAllister Associates Inc. to support systems of the Air Traffic Control Systems Division in St. Inigoes, Md.
TRW Inc. got the green light from the Pentagon to deploy the $263.7 million Defense Travel System throughout the agency and across the services. TRW announced the system received a favorable review from a Defense Department panel, convened in February to assess performance issues that emerged during testing in October 2000.
Vredenburg has won a contract by the Securities and Exchange Commission to build and implement a solution to handle the agency's Freedom of Information Act requests electronically.
Six companies have won the Air Force's $7.6 billion Flexible Acquisition and Sustainment Tool program. The seven-year contract will be used for Air Force orders of managed weapon systems, support systems, subsystems and components.
PEC Solutions Inc. has been awarded contracts for engineering and operational support services for the Drug Enforcement Administration's global intranet.
The Education Department's effort to simplify its student loan process through online services has won a Digital Government Award recognizing best practices in government and higher education.
The General Accounting Office said the Interior Department's lack of information security measures is placing financial, personnel and other sensitive information at risk of being manipulated, corrupted or otherwise compromised.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is preparing to test cutting-edge "third-generation" wireless technology that will make possible the high-speed transfer of data over mobile devices.
When registration opened for the new Army University Access Online program at Fort Benning, Ga., some soldiers were so eager to enroll that they camped out the night before in a January rain to ensure a place in the e-learning program.
The General Services Administration's plan for opening both federal long-distance and local services contracts to more competitors is receiving mixed reviews from the telecommunications industry.
The General Accounting Office ruled June 25 that Qwest Communications International Inc. had no legal standing to protest the General Services Administration's award of so-called "bridge" contracts to AT&T Corp. and Sprint Communications Corp. in December 2000.
