The House and Senate appropriations committees came out with close figures on overall Homeland Security discretionary spending in their draft bills for fiscal 2006.
The United States needs a new, high-level agency to manage outbreaks of emerging animal diseases arising naturally or resulting from terrorism, according to a new report from a branch of the National Academies of Science.
The National Archives and Records Administration has successfully achieved all major targets thus far for its Electronic Records Archives project to manage petabytes of information.
Netsmart Technologies Inc., a supplier of enterprise-wide software for health and human services providers, has won an 18-month, $1.8 million contract from the Georgia Department of Human Resources.
Sabre Systems Inc. won an eight-and-a-half-year, $60 million-plus task order from the Census Bureau to provide IT services to modernize and expand the agency's geographical data processing system.
Science Applications International Corp. has won a $500 million contract to provide technical support for the National Weather Service's National Data Buoy Center.
The company cites flaws in the procurement, including improper evaluations of the vendor's offers and Agriculture's failure to justify its choice of a substantially higher proposal from ReserveAmerica.
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a contract to Rapiscan Systems Inc. to develop a radiation detection system to identify radioactive materials in cargo and vehicles.
Fingerprint scans for all 10 fingers for new visitors, an assistant secretary post for cybersecurity and reorganization moves are all part of DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's plan for revamping the department.
The White House and OMB want agencies to coordinate R&D efforts, both to cut down on duplicative and low-payoff projects and to get in step with the goals set by the interagency National Science and Technology Council.
In identical letters to key lawmakers, Clay Johnson, OMB deputy director for management, asked lawmakers to limit or remove any language that hampers agencies' abilities to spend money on cross-departmental projects.
The Homeland Security Department's Citizenship and Immigration Services agency soon will unveil major acquisitions that will reshape its technology and business processes, according to CIO Terrazzia Martin.
The Homeland Security Department is showing major weaknesses in ensuring information security for its computer systems, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
GSA intends to award a blanket purchase agreement to three or more vendors for delivery, operation and development of search engine services for the federal government's Web site.
Fox did not give a specific date, but indicated his departure would be "in the near future." He becomes the third top official to leave GSA's Federal Supply Service in the last month.
