Information technology security gaps created a material weakness in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection financial audit statements for fiscal 2007, according to a report released by the Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner.
The National Institutes of Health wants information from contractors on their ability to provide portal and data center services essential to its Bionformatics Resource Centers program.
Unisys has filed a protest with GAO objecting to being left off the list of finalist bidders for the estimated $2 billion contract for TSA's Information Technology Infrastructure Program.
A number of recent significant cross-border transactions, regulatory actions, and domestic and international political developments have put globalization of government and defense into the cross hairs of the 2008 presidential election.
The Homeland Security Department is seeking information from contractors that could provide technical support and analysis for its information security program.
Appropriations Committee report concludes that efforts to enable checks of foreign visitors' identities as they exit the country should be postponed until a new administration takes office in 2009.
Agencies are increasingly choosing contractors as shared service providers for their modernized financial management systems over federal agencies that provide the same services.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will help manage employee payroll and other human resources functions for the Transportation Security Administration under a new contract.
NHIC Corp. will process Medicare payment claims in four Northwestern states under a $148 million contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The agency did not fully justify the lack of competition for 15 single-source contracts totaling $469 million that it awarded in fiscal 2006, according to a new report.
