The General Services Administration expects to hold its industry day on the Alliant contracts in early January to introduce changes made to the $65 billion IT procurement, an agency spokesman said today.
The federal government's biennial Top Officials exercise for homeland security would be more effective if IT systems were developed to track and share information more openly and efficiently among participating agencies and with the private sector, according to a new report from the Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner.
The loss of key officers won't impede the restructuring of the General Services Administration's acquisition operations, according to G. Martin Wagner, associate administrator for GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy and soon-to-be acting Federal Acquisition Service commissioner.
The IRS is continuing to develop applications to advance its modernization efforts, while beginning to simplify the increasing complexity of the modernization process.
The National Disaster Medical System is in disarray due to a lack of leadership and to persistent breakdowns in its planning, logistics and communications systems, according to a new report from senior Democrats on two key House committees.
The Veterans Affairs Department seeks a provider for nationwide online travel services as an alternative to the integrated electronic travel system used by VA under the General Services Administration eTravel initiative.
The Homeland Security Department is preparing to distribute geospatial information-sharing software and other commercial IT to local jurisdictions through its Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program.
The Office of Personnel Management hopes its new IT workforce swap will yield an unprecedented level of information sharing, as well as provide private IT experts with a unique glimpse into the federal space and vice versa.
Charles Christopherson took the reins as chief financial officer at the Agriculture Department this week, where he will oversee $128 billion in assets and $77 billion in total annual spending.
BearingPoint Inc. has won a contract potentially worth $9.8 million with the National Center for Public Health Informatics, an organization within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nortel PEC Solutions Inc. of Fairfax, Va. has won a $21 million, one-year contract extension with the U.S. Postal Service to provide service, support and continue working on development of an electronic postal system.
HHS wants to learn about product functionalities, technical architectures and system requirements, and how these products would interoperate with or supplement existing identity management and physical access systems.
The Treasury Department likely will push out re-awarding its controversial 10-year, $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract. It has extended the date that proposals are due to Dec. 8.
Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff fleshed out details about the Secure Border Initiative today and the technologies the department will need to bolster security along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.
A $153 million, five-year contract awarded to Northrop Grumman Corp. by the Social Security Administration will focus on advancing the agency's network infrastructure and making it secure.
After the incremental but growing success of the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program, the Office of Management and Budget is expanding the concept to IT hardware.
