A portion of the $1.9 billion in new border security funding approved by Congress this week will pay for IT systems for surveillance and intelligence analysis to be used by National Guardsmen at U.S. borders.
Enterprise architecture, followed closely by information-sharing, are areas of federal government IT that present the most business opportunities during the next 12 to 18 months, according to a market survey of industry officials.
The Transportation Security Administration's intelligence office needs to improve its IT links with other intelligence units within the Homeland Security Department, a senior TSA official said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
A top priority for the new administrator of the General Services Administration should be fixing morale and process problems, according to industry members of a panel at Wednesday's Washington Technology Top 100 Conference.
The General Services Administration will hold an industry day later this month to provide the latest information on the agency's Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 product-approval process.
Guident Technologies Inc. won a five-year, $4.9 million task order from the Energy Department's Los Alamos Laboratory to deliver service support for Oracle solutions.
The jury is still out on whether FBI is effectively managing its IT procurements, the Government Accountability Office stated in a newly released letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The three departments that jointly run the Integrated Wireless Network project to build out the next-generation interoperable voice and data radio network for federal agencies have chosen General Dynamics C4 Systems and Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions as contractors for the acquisition's second phase.
The United States wants to implement biometric border-crossing identification cards by 2008 to protect the nation against possible attacks by terrorists based in Canada.
Federal agencies responsible for the health and well being of U.S. citizens are seeking creative IT solutions to replace outdated systems, said a panel of government experts Wednesday.
The Government Printing Office plans to issue a solicitation for a vendor that can establish a repository that will manufacture, personalize and issue Personal Identity Verification cards for smaller agencies.
For the most part, DHS has failed in its mission to secure the country from attacks in a number of key security areas, said Clark Ervin, the department's former inspector general in a keynote speech at the Management of Change conference today.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a five-year, $176 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to deliver technical training to its employees and other defense and intelligence workers.
The Labor Department has formally issued a solicitation seeking a vendor to provide Personal Identity Verification cards to agency employees and contractors.
Advanced Technology Systems Inc. won a contract from the FBI to continue supporting information systems support at the agency's Strategic Information and Operations Center in Washington.
The General Services Administration's new administrator said she will work quickly and undertake several initiatives to improve how the agency interacts with industry.
Jim Williams, a veteran of some of the government's toughest programs, will be leaving the Homeland Security Department to join the General Services Administration as commissioner of the new Federal Acquisition Service.
The American Council for Technology presented Navy CIO David Wennergren with the 2006 John J. Franke Award for excellence in government service last night.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a five-year, $31.5 million contract from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to deploy a smart-card system.
