EMC, Canon say good-bye to GSA

Two more household names in the government IT market have walked away from the General Services Administration.

ATS nabs Education tech support subcontract

ATS Corp. has won a $40 million subcontract from Perot Systems Corp. to help provide Web development, applications support and related services to the DOE.

Two companies get WITS about them

GSA has awarded its Washington Interagency Telecommunications Systems 3 contract to Verizon Business Network Services Inc. and Level 3 Communications LLC.

Building blocks

Contractors enlist to help build a national health network ? one piece at a time.

News briefs

DHS is trying to quash criticism of its slow development of an exit piece to the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program.

CSC gets DHS Citizenship order

Computer Sciences Corp. will provide support to the national customer service center of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under a new task order.

CGI wins more IRS payment compliance work

CGI Federal has been awarded a contract from the IRS that expands support work it has been doing for the agency's Filing and Payment Compliance system implementation.

A hard line on organizational conflicts

Commentary: Organizational conflicts of interest continue to be a hot topic in federal acquisition and a potential risk area for contractors. Federal courts have confirmed in two recent decisions the importance of following OCI rules.

Open source and messaging's future

Last byte: A conversation with Art Botterell, national expert in warning systems and former FEMA official.

Safe bet

Green IT is good for the environment and good for the bottom line.

Hardware makes a play

Vendors offer products designed to generate energy savings, reduce carbon.

SBInet demo planned for northern border

DHS plans to showcase its SBInet border surveillance system in an upcoming Northern Border Demonstration in the Detroit and Great Lakes areas.

Bush administration to fund integrated fusion centers network

The Bush administration wants to make state and local fusion centers the focal point for sharing terrorism-related intelligence with nonfederal authorities.

FCC embraces emergency alert protocol

The FCC is endorsing adoption of the common alerting protocol technical standard for the nation's next-generation emergency alert system.

Input sees $123B in '08 fed opportunities

The top technology business opportunities in the federal government in fiscal year 2008 could bring $123 billion into the coffers of contractors, according to research firm Input.

House passes bill giving some small-biz owners precedence

Service-disabled veterans who own small businesses should get top priority in government contracting, according to a bill the House passed yesterday.

TWIC takes a step forward

The long-delayed TWIC program began enrollments this month at one port and will add 11 more ports in November, a DHS official testified at a congressional hearing Tuesday.

Failed FedBizOpps bidders file fourth protest

Losing vendors filed another protest ? their fourth in three years ? to contest GSA's third contract award to Symplicity to revamp FedBizOpps.gov.

Council seeks comments on public safety network specs

Public safety officials and industry experts have until Friday to submit comments to van umbrella group of organizations developing specifications for the new public safety broadband network to be created by the Federal Communications Commission.

Quality Associates to digitize FDA archives

Quality Associates Inc. has been awarded a contract from the Food and Drug Administration to digitize, index and consolidate about 20 million pages of FDA documents and materials.