Sen. Charles Grassley and GSA are sparring again over the Sun Microsystems contracting controversy, a week after the company let its schedules contract expire.
After years of efforts to reform procurement, the government has not made as much progress as advocates of change would like, according to a panel at the Executive Leadership Conference.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a tax bill that would delay a mandate to government buyers to withhold part of their payments to contractors.
Electric power grids, water utilities and other critical control systems often lack the computer processing power needed to implement traditional IT security controls, according to a new GAO report.
Robert Mocny, US-VISIT director, said this week DHS will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register by January 2008 detailing the exit program.
Federal IT spending will continue to grow over the next five years, but at a much lower rate than during the past five, according to an industry study.
Despite improvements, DHS still falls short in protecting its critical IT systems and data, according to a new report from the department's inspector general.
To succeed in the defense and IT sectors, companies must act boldly when it comes to making investments, said a panel of financial experts at a technology forum this week.
DHS is paying billions to professional service contractors to perform tasks that are similar to work usually reserved for government employees, officials said today.
October marks the start of the federal fiscal year, and as in every year since 1994,Congress and the president have failed to give agencies their annual spending authority on time.
