The Defense Information Systems Agency today issued a request for proposals for the $300 million, Joint Hawaii Information Transfer Service contract for telecommunications services.
The Homeland Security Department is not adequately prepared to recover its IT systems following a disaster, according to DHS acting Inspector General Richard Skinner.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission hinted that the agency might have to reorganize to better address the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Secretary Mike Leavitt said an Rx drug adverse-event reporting system could be one of the first projects that a federal advisory group might take on as part of an initiative to build a national health information exchange.
A group of emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.
The request for proposal for the 10-year, $65 billion Alliant contracts for governmentwide information technology services will be issued in August, according the General Services Administration's assistant commissioner for commercial acquisitions at the agency's Federal Supply Service.
The Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office has outlined new subfunctions for the health and human resources business lines, and clarified definitions for two subfunctions and three new lines of business.
The Health and Human Services Department has released requests for proposals that it hopes will pave the way toward developing a national health information network infrastructure that supports the exchange of electronic health records.
Major homeland security IT contracts awarded to Northrop Grumman, Accenture and Unisys are among IT programs coming under scrutiny by Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the formation of a national collaboration and four requests for proposals as the next steps to advance adoption of health IT.
President Bush's decision to place Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte in charge of the Information Sharing Environment will reduce the powers of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, one critic says.
A unit of CompuDyne Corp. has won a $1.3 million contract from the Irving, Texas, Police Department to provide an integrated public safety and criminal-justice system.
The top two executives for the Federal Supply Service announced yesterday they are retiring, as the consolidation of the Federal Supply Service with the Federal Technology Service looms.
The General Services Administration's plan calls for combining the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services, as well as merging the IT and General Supply funds. But one congressman expressed concern about the new framework.
The House of Representatives authorized $10.6 million to speed up corporate applications under the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act.
