In separate pieces of legislation, both the House and Senate have included provisions to tighten procurement oversight and require competition for portions of the Coast Guard's $24 billion Integrated Deepwater Systems modernization program.
The ITAA warned Congress today that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be fixed because it is keeping America's small businesses from realizing their innovative potential.
The House Homeland Security Committee has approved legislation authorizing $39.8 billion for the Homeland Security Department's fiscal 2008 budget, an increase of $2.1 billion beyond the administration's request.
GSA based its estimated costs for the transition from the FTS 2001 to the Networx contracts on a worst-case assumption, and the analysis overall is not accurate, according to a GAO report.
Federal spending on IT will maintain its modest growth rate over the next two years, as the political climate keeps agencies wary of major new projects, a new report said.
The plan to build a $5 billion nationwide wireless communications network for 81,000 federal agents runs a high risk of failure, according to a new audit.
Federal spending on homeland security grew substantially as a share of gross domestic product in the year following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since 2002, however, agency outlays have increased only modestly, a new survey finds.
SSA is seeking industry sources to provide image knowledge-based software to digitize more of the disability process for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review.
Outsourcing projects for eligibility determination of health and welfare services are hot draws for many of the major state and local players this year.
Large contracts for information technology outsourcing and human services with state and local governments may draw federal systems integrators into the market and cause some already in it to refocus their efforts.
