Users of open-source general public licenses should be prepared to decide early next year whether to stick with Version 2 of their GPL or opt for GPLv3.
The Acquisition Advisory Panel, which Congress created to assess the government's procurement and management of services, will issue its final report in a matter of weeks. Hard at work for 18 months, the panel has heard from more than 100 witnesses and held numerous public meetings.
When the General Services Administration holds its Networx Transition Summit early next month, industry members expect GSA to tell them what steps it is taking to help federal agencies smoothly switch from the FTS2001 telecommunications contract to the Networx program.
The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to purchase 30,000 Personal Identity Verification cards under a firm, fixed-price contract so it can meet an upcoming deadline under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
Web sites operated by the General Services Administration and the Agriculture Department, as well as the states of Texas and New Jersey, topped a recent Brown University analysis.
The Securities and Exchange Commission seeks proposals for a prototype system that will provide a user-friendly environment in which to access documents written in Extensible Business Reporting Language and submitted to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval.
Major expansion of the Basic Pilot employee verification program being considered by Congress would be costly, ineffective and cause additional serious harm to victims of identity theft, according to a new research paper from the Heritage Foundation.
Applied Computing Technologies Inc. of Falls Church, Va., has been tapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a $135 million pact to assist the agency prepare its systems support procurement for future disasters.
The Congressional Budget Office said the Army should consider alternatives that would scale back the ambitious Future Combat Systems program and cut its costs by nearly $5 billion
Government IT reseller GTSI Corp. failed to issue its second quarter 2006 financial report yesterday because of accounting errors in financial statements for the past two years.
PC Mall Gov Inc. won a contract worth up to $100 million over three years from the General Services Administration to supply IT products through the procurement agency's Expanded Direct Delivery Program.
The Homeland Security Department will deploy additional computerized methods of pinpointing threats in airports in response to the newly uncovered plot to blow up aircraft flying from London to the United States.
The most significant IT control weaknesses at the agency involve entitywide security, access controls and service continuity, according to Homeland Security Department inspector general Richard Skinner.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font>The Veterans Affairs Department today announced that Unisys Corp. had informed VA that a desktop computer containing sensitive personal information of veterans is missing from the company's offices.
The Senate has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime, the first multinational, multilateral treaty to require cooperation among law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of computer network crimes.
Congress is building a Homeland Security Department funding piñata, with technology-laced spending sweeteners for every state and congressional district, and it's on a fast track for enactment before fiscal 2007 begins Oct. 1.
National credentialing efforts for emergency responders have been advancing and branching out to include telecommunications specialists, utilities workers and other private-sector disaster response workers.
To increase competition among services contracts, the General Services Administration should develop a new schedule for IT services and expand the Defense Department rule of three to the rest of government, according to the Acquisition Advisory Panel.
The Labor Department has vast resources to help people find jobs, collect benefits and more. The problem: For some, the resources are too much of a good thing, and they need coaching to help navigate the volumes of information.
