The General Services Administration has issued a request for proposals for its Satcom II contract for commercial, worldwide satellite communications. Responses are due by March 14.
Although civilian agencies' overall budgets will decrease under the president's budget plan, many technology related programs are scheduled for increases.
Many civilian agencies' overall budgets are scheduled to decrease under the president's budget plan, but close scrutiny shows that spending for IT-related programs may actually rise.
Health and Human Services Department IT would rise by 4.8 percent in fiscal 2007 under the White House's budget plan, buoyed in part by bioterrorism spending and IT infrastructure initiatives.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said this week that the Treasury Department's insistence on going forward with its own contract instead of using a General Services Administration governmentwide vehicle "makes no sense."
Federal IT spending through the General Services Administration's multiple award schedule contracts for products and services declined in 2005 for the first time in 10 years, according to a new report issued by Input Inc.
The $439.3 billion Defense budget, released to Congress yesterday along with the Quadrennial Defense Review, proposes a 7 percent increase over the fiscal 2006 budget.
If you follow instructions from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, you can rest assured that sensitive data you delete from obsolete computer hard drives and optical disks will not be recovered.
Robbins-Gioia LLC won a five-year, $112.5 million blanket purchase agreement from Customs and Border Protection to provide support for the agency's Office of Information Technology.
A strengthened policy office with sweeping powers to unify program control is one of several recommendations made to Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff.
The Small Business Administration has launched the Business Matchmaking Online Network to give small businesses access to Web-based educational tools and workshops on procurement and supplier diversity.
During a five-month review in mid-2005, IG investigators at the Environmental Protection Agency found the Integrated Contract Management System was operating without up-to-date certification, accreditation and contingency plans.
The General Services Administration will issue a draft request for proposal in early March for its $1.8 billion follow-on contract for local telecommunications and data services in the Washington metropolitan area, an agency official said today.
G&B Solutions Inc. has won a $15 million contract from the Treasury Department to furnish independent verification and validation support services to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Tetra Tech Inc. won a contract renewal from the Federal Aviation Administration to provide global positioning system technology that allows for denser civilian air travel and enhances the integrity of navigation information.
In his sixth State of the Union address, President Bush last night said health IT advancements will help the country reduce healthcare costs and improve patient care.
Federal authorities furnished inadequate leadership, advance planning and logistics systems in response to Hurricane Katrina, congressional investigators reported today.
The federal government awarded more than $28 billion in IT-related prime contracts during the first quarter of fiscal 2006, an increase of more than 40 percent compared to the same period in fiscal 2005, according to Input Inc.
