A new rule requiring small businesses to recertify their size regularly may hinder agencies' current goal of awarding 23 percent of contracting dollars to small businesses, one SBA official said June 4.
Speakers offered suggestions on public funding streams for health IT June 1 in a health IT and Medicaid Webcast, sponsored by the National Conference of StateLegislators and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices.
OMB yesterday gave agencies the basic language they will be required to use in all procurements after June 30 to ensure they are purchasing hardware and software that meet a standard Windows desktop configuration.
DHS is looking for a contractor to process up to 28 million government ID cards a year for existing programs and for new cards such as in the proposed Temporary Worker Program.
The State and Homeland Security departments are pushing forward with a controversial program to upgrade border security by creating a passport card system for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI).
To advance information sharing against terrorism, Boeing Co. expects to be among the first major corporations to assign its own analyst to the Seattle FBI Fusion Center intelligence sharing office.
Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Texas Department of Information Resources as one of the prime contractors qualified for its $400 million seat management program.
The planned border-crossing ID card does not require strong privacy protections because the only data it can transmit wirelessly is a reference number, according to the director of NIST.
Senate Armed Services Committee's $648.8 billion Defense authorization bill calls for major management reforms at the Pentagon and sets the stage for a showdown with House lawmakers about funding for the Army's Future Combat Systems.
The Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office produced more than double the number of privacy impact assessments in 2006 than it did two years before, but it still has a huge backlog of programs to assess, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Rep. Elton Gallegly has introduced a bill that would require federal contractors to use a Social Security Administration program to verify that their employees have a legal right to work in the U.S.
GSA is seeking indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, firm fixed-price bids for six new multiple-award contracts for wireless telecom expense management services not available through its Networx contract.
A senior official at Lockheed Martin in charge of the Deepwater contract refused a meeting with one of his employees to discuss shortcomings in the program's converted patrol boats, charges Deepwater whistleblower Michael DeKort.
