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.
Congress' willingness to consider gutting a program considered essential for government employees has industry and government officials wondering if lawmakers are targeting civilian IT projects for cuts in order to fund the war on terror.
Nicked by the recent rash of laptop thefts and natural disasters that cripple business operations, the federal government has renewed its push for agencies to beef up their telework plans.
Over the years, the Army Knowledge Online portal has evolved into what military leaders envisioned it would become: a single point where warfighters and their support networks could log in and access applications and services. But it had a serious flaw.
What may appear to be harmless loitering near the entrance of a subway tunnel could escalate quickly into a terrorist attack. Video surveillance helps monitor such vulnerable public areas, but the growing numbers of cameras have put a strain on the people tasked with monitoring them.
Federal officials have incorporated a new rule on how agencies should implement an earned-value management system into the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
IBM Corp. will assist the province of Alberta, Canada, in deploying an electronic health records system under a contract worth $10 million over two years.
Computer Sciences Corp. received two contract extensions worth a total of $82 million for mainframe computer services from Australia's Federal Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and the Australian Electoral Commission.
The White House's approach to private-sector critical infrastructure protection needs to be more authoritative, according to the Century Foundation think tank for homeland security.
State and local government IT executives said that price, service and response time are their most important criteria when making IT purchasing decisions, according to a recent survey.
The Homeland Security Department's controversial Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative would be postponed for 17 months to June 1, 2009, under an amendment adopted by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
