Small defense contractors with the right management team are inherently set up for success ? they can adapt more quickly than larger businesses can to market conditions, share the business risk with their customers and attract top talent.
As part of its post-Hurricane Katrina overhaul, FEMA is setting up a new National Advisory Council to provide advice to it on all aspects of emergency preparedness and response.
Officials at SRA International Inc. were well aware of the benefits of receiving an Information Security Assessment Capability Maturity Model rating, having first gone through the process of receiving an assessment back in 2001.
Selecting the "best" technology for a program would be tough enough in a static world, but DHS officials find themselves pushed and pulled by three major forces in the format fights.
It's a depressing sign of getting old: You witness the discrediting of a bad idea, then, after a period of dormancy, its resurrection as the new best thing. It's happened with fondue, leggings, open classrooms and now, in the procurement arena, fixed-price development contracting.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) today suggested that Booz Allen may have a conflict of interest in its role as a contractor oveseeing DHS's $8 billion SBI-Net system.
The Real ID act was passed without significant debate, but the states saddled with the cost are forcing a public dialog on the question of a national ID.
DHS continues to struggle in managing, integrating and securing its IT systems, Inspector General Richard L. Skinner testified at a congressional hearing Tuesday.
