To increase competition among services contracts, the General Services Administration should develop a new schedule for IT services and expand the DOD rule of three to the rest of government, according to the Acquisition Advisory Panel.
The General Services Administration's chief acquisition officer wants customers to try out the agency's Federal Procurement Data System to see if improvements are needed.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved Paul Denett's nomination to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved Paul Denett's nomination to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Legal permanent residents and some other foreigners would be added to the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program's border screening process under a newly proposed regulation.
Annual spending through the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule contracts for IT products and services will decline in fiscal 2006, according to a report from Input Inc.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will fund states a total of $150 million in 2007 and 2008 to design ways, including IT, to transform their Medicaid systems to increase quality and efficiency of care.
For the sixth year in a row, the federal government failed to meet its goal of awarding 23 percent of all federal prime contracts to small businesses, according to House Democrats.
Homeland Security Department secretary Michael Chertoff has filled one of the gaps in the department's ranks of permanent senior officials by appointing Hugo Teufel III chief privacy officer.
The Government Accountability Office has closed Indus Corp.'s bid protest over the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar Eagle contract for IT services.
The line between fantasy and reality has blurred in the debate over adoption of radio frequency identification technology in the state and local government market.
Investors' trepidation about slowing IT budget growth has prompted a drop in stocks of publicly traded federal IT companies. And it's no help that there is weakness in the overall stock market over concerns of rising interest rates and oil prices hurting global economic growth.
An online early warning system the Agriculture Department put in place to help growers fight an infection targeting U.S. soybean crops has, by some estimates, saved farmers hundreds of millions of dollars.
As a Vietnam veteran of the Army Nursing Corps, Mary Stout has seen her share of government forms and paperwork. As the Veterans Health Administration's chief of forms publications and records management, Stout has labored to move the agency from paper to electronic forms.
Disaster recovery was a low priority for many government agencies until the flood of terrorist attacks, hurricanes and other disasters of recent years. Now disaster recovery, ensuring that IT works uninterruptedly, is a key component of the continuity of operations plans that government expects industry to help it carry out.
The push for IP equipment that can function in a multinational setting is a huge opportunity for vendors and systems integrators in the United States and abroad.
The first large-scale test of the technology that will put Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 into practice is slated to be in place by Oct. 20.
It's appropriate that Lurita Doan draws inspiration from the Renaissance ? the new administrator of the General Services Administration is trying to pull the much-maligned agency through a rebirth of its own.
