Today GSA will officially name Fred Schobert as the new chief technical officer for the Federal Acquisition Office's Integrated Technology Services office.
OPM plans to conduct a public/private competition September through November to replace its two accounting and single procurement systems under its Financial Systems Modernization.
CustomFlix Labs and the National Archives and Records Administration have reached a nonexclusive agreement to make thousands of historic films available for sale on Amazon.com.
Although the U.S. began issuing electronic passports to U.S. citizens last October, few of the nation's airports or land and sea ports are using them as they should, according to a GAO report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a draft request for proposals for a planned IT services contract related to BioSense, its system for early detection of health threats.
SRA International has won a follow-on contract to provide Web development and other IT services to the National Institutes of Health's Center for Information Technology.
A team led by Nortel Government Solutions has won a contract from the Social Security Administration to replace the agency's outdated telephone system.
Five software vendors will develop and maintain of an enterprise relational database management system to handle Medicare and Medicaid information through a new $90 million contract.
The 9/11 Commission bill awaiting the president's signature to become law sets up new credentialing requirements for first responders across the country, among its IT-related provisions.
Foreign visitors to the U.S. would be able to sign up voluntarily as international registered travelers under a provision in the DHS spending bill passed by the Senate last week.
SBA said the proposal would benefit businesses by cutting down on burdens when applying for assistance programs while keeping their status for a longer period of time.
A new study, "Fusion Centers: Issues and Options for Congress," cites problems with State intelligence fusion centers' lack of connectivity with existing law enforcement databases and poor compliance with federally backed technical data-sharing standards.
Border security got an extra $3 billion, but Real ID spending took a hit, in Senate action on the Homeland Security Department fiscal 2008 appropriations bill yesterday.
GSA intends to issue a sole-sourcing purchase order to Eagle Eye Publishers for custom programming services as the agency works to put federal contract and grant information into an easily searchable public database.
