Affiliated Computer Services Inc. accuses state officials of causing crucial delays in a $171 million contract to build a new Medicaid payment system for North Carolina, and is threatening to sue the Tar Heel State for breach of contract.
On June 20 DOT and DHS officials will run an exercise with less than 200 port workers and seafarers at ports in Baltimore, Jacksonville, Fla., and Norfolk, Va., to see how identification cards with different types of tokens work in disparate environments.
The retooled Web site reflects the department's philosophy gained in experiences with hurricanes and other disasters that a well-prepared citizenry can dramatically lighten the burden on first responders.
The Homeland Security Department would be required to set up a new IT system and database for tracking missing persons and reuniting families following major disasters under an amendment approved by the Senate last week.
Independent Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords places a hold on legislation that would officially recognize the Federal Acquisition Service?which GSA already launched?and, more important, merge the General Supply and IT funds into the OneFund.
The federal government should develop an "authorized use" standard to improve information-sharing in counterterrorism, according to the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
The Coast Guard is monitoring and sharing counterterrorism information at three new interagency centers and 35 new sector command centers it has set up at ports around the country.
The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program should strengthen its oversight of the contracts it is using to build a computerized border control system, federal auditors said in an analysis of the multibillion-dollar Homeland Security Department project.
The General Services Administration plans to issue a final request for proposals</a> this month for its eight-year, $1.8 billion Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 3 program.
Large and more numerous contract awards continue to keep the Pentagon vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, according to a Government Accountability Office review of contract management at the Defense Department recently forwarded to Congress.
A final implementation plan will be released this month for the federal government's new Information-Sharing Environment, John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, said in a speech Monday.
The Task Force to Support Improved DOD Contracting and Stability Operations in Iraq will evaluate Defense business enterprise processes and systems in Iraq affecting contracting and other processes.
This is the second task order issued to EDS under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' $1.9 billion Enterprise Data Center contract, the hub of the CMS IT infrastructure modernization for the next decade.
Cities and counties across the country are seeking the latest technology and are looking at IT outsourcing as a way to improve services while reducing operating costs.
If you are, in even a loose sense of the word, lobbying someone in the government in an effort to get, modify or extend a contract, you may need to disclose that activity.
People in government and industry continue to confuse "assisted acquisition" with "direct acquisition" when talking about how purchase requests for items available under pre-negotiated contracts become purchase orders.
