The Defense Department's Biometrics Task Force plans to release today a draft request for proposals for services and supplies for its biometrics program.
A year ago, Sen. Hillary Clinton said she wanted to trim the federal contracting workforce by 500,000 employees. The huge growth in federal contracting, which has reached more than $440 billion a year, motivated her to speak out.
A bill introduced this week in the House of Representatives would require DHS to assess the robustness of contractors' cybersecurity protection before hiring them.
The Homeland Security Department would be required to consult with industry executives on biometric identification for airport security under newly proposed legislation.
One important step to improving GSA's multiple award schedule contracts would be to reconsider use of the price reduction clause, said contracting experts who spoke before an advisory panel May 5.
Municipalities are increasingly outsourcing the management of police-initiated and private automobile towing and tracking. As one indication of the growing market, two providers of such services announced a merger this week.
Just as in every campaign that has preceded it, the issue ofjobs has been at center stage throughout the 2008 presidentialcampaign. Candidates talk about creating jobs, buildingsustainable domestic industries and so forth. Ironically, onetopic that never comes up in those discussions is one of thenation's most significant sources of high-quality, well-compensatedemployment: government contracting.
DHS' cybersecurity initiative might be relying too much on contractors and might not be providing enough information to the public, according to two key senators.
Lockheed Martin won the FBI's Next Generation Identification system deal in February, but IBM lodged a protest and work was held up. The two have now agreed to work together on the $1 billion contract.
Companies needlessly expose themselves to risk when they succumb to the temptation to substitute less-qualified people who lack the experience required for the labor category to which they were assigned.
The Army Contracting Agency has issued a request for proposals for passive radio frequency identification devices that would support DOD, other agencies and global military operations.
NATO has set up a new Cyber Defense Management Authority that will coordinate the safeguarding of its own and member states' computer infrastructures against cyberattack.
The Office of Management and Budget has submitted a proposal to expedite hiring and security clearances for individuals and contractors to work for the government.
The Coast Guard will begin operating a new international data exchange center starting Jan. 1, 2009, to track the positions at sea of about 3,000 ships per day, according to a final rule published.
