Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay the U.S. government $98.5 million to settle allegations that PeopleSoft Inc., which it acquired last year, overcharged federal buyers under the General Services Administration's multiple-award schedule program.
The Transportation Security Administration now must adhere to the same small-business procurement goals as other federal agencies, according to a provision adopted by Congress in the fiscal 2007 homeland security appropriations bill.
McDonald Bradley Inc. won a contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency to work on a project that aims to improve intelligence data sharing and management across intelligence communities and the Defense Department.
The White House published an ambitious, new national space policy that lays out goals for exploration and addresses the need to enhance homeland security by collecting intelligence imagery using high-resolution government satellites.
IBM Corp. has been awarded the Interior Department's National Business Center's highly anticipated contract to provide Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 services.
Congress included a drastically shortened version of the WARN Act emergency public warning legislation in the port security bill approved Sept. 30, according to a prominent emergency warning expert.
While speaking at the recent IT Security Training Conference in Washington, D.C., Arthur W. Coviello, president of RSA, called for government to become more proactive in its IT security.
The Election Assistance Commission has released a draft of its Testing and Certification Program Manual for voting systems and is seeking public comment throughout the month.
House and Senate conferees have authorized the Defense Department to spend $532.8 billion on its programs in fiscal 2007. Lawmakers reached agreement recently on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2007.
Pearson Blueprint Technologies Inc. won an $8.8 million contract to support the Health and Human Services Department implement an enterprise architecture.
With a burgeoning backlog of patent applications for review, the Patent and Trademark Office recently proposed hiring 1,000 new examiners each year for the next five years.
