The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday approved legislation to declassify the top line of the U.S. intelligence budget and make public the total amount of federal dollars spent on intelligence activities each year.
The much-anticipated replacement contract for the General Services Administration's Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 managed-service office asks vendors to provide assistance to agencies in handing out smart cards and developing card management systems for at least 40 agencies and 420,000 federal employees.
One of Lurita Doan's goals as administrator of the General Services Administration is to decrease the time and burden for vendors to get on the Federal Supply Schedules.
The acquisition of McLean, Va.-based Secure Software expands Fortify's worldwide customer base and better establishes its presence in the Washington area to serve the federal market.
Politics, must-have technologies and major new contracts are front and center in 2007. Permeating these issues is the continuing war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A new study by the Center for Technology in Government describes the first steps toward measuring public return on investment. The center's methodology and its results hold great promise for agencies and governments at all levels.
Long-awaited rules affecting time-and-materials contracting go into effect Feb. 12. Where the procuring agency makes appropriate findings, the rules will allow use of T&M contracts for any type of service procured as a commercial item.
Senior executives and owners of federal IT services companies should pay close attention to a changing environment that provides both opportunities and uncertainties in 2007.
After reading the Acquisition Advisory Panel's 448-page draft report, it's obvious that this is the playbook for the next era of federal procurement policy and legislation.
The new Democratic chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is creating new subcommittees for border security and transportation and eliminating panels overseeing economic security and protection against nuclear attacks.
The day before the Treasury Department dropped its Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, the GSA and Treasury signed an agreement under which GSA would defend the cancellation of the controversial deal.
One of the first casualties of the new Congress could be a program designed to create competition around functions performed by the federal government, said Rep. Tom Davis.
