The General Services Administration will hold a public forum on its multibillion-dollar Alliant procurement later next month, and may issue a second set of draft requests for proposals, according to the official in charge.
The Citizenship and Immigration Services agency exceeded the statutory limit on H-1B visas it issued in fiscal 2005, and lacks the technology to stay within the congressionally mandated visa cap, according to Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard L. Skinner.
George W. Foresman, Virginia's assistant to the governor for commonwealth preparedness, has been nominated by President Bush to be the Homeland Security Department's undersecretary for preparedness.
First responders would have more radio spectrum in the 700 megahertz band under legislation approved Oct. 20 by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee as part of the fiscal 2006 fiscal budget resolution.
The Ethics Resource Center (www.ethics.org), the country's oldest non-profit devoted to promoting organizational ethics, published its National Business Ethics Survey this month.
The most recent example was this summer. GSA insisted, under threat of termination, on major price reductions for Sun Microsystems Inc. products across multiple schedule contracts. But other audits are quietly working through the discovery and settlement process, which involves an analysis of every order and price a company charged for goods and services to federal and nonfederal customers.
Federal procurement officials have published a proposed rule that authorizes time-and-materials and labor-hour contracts for commercial services. The rule implements amendments to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act and benefits service contractors by shifting most of the risk to the government.
The Air Force's Air Combat Command wants vendors to perform operations and maintenance services for the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle MQ-1 program at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada and various locations worldwide.
Network administrators usually spend their time concerned with routers, PCs and servers. Operating a chainsaw? Cutting down trees? That's not part of the job description.
The new Defense Business Transformation Agency, established Oct. 7 by the Defense Department, will manage some of the agency's largest business programs.
The new Defense Business Transformation Agency, established Oct. 7 by the Defense Department, will manage some of the agency's largest business programs.
As the water within their Pensacola, Fla., building began to reach ankle depth ? thanks to 2004's Hurricane Ivan ? Computer Sciences Corp.'s employees working with the Navy put aside personal worries and focused on how to keep the operation running.
The government's systems for identifying, locating and apprehending aliens who have violated the terms of their U.S. visits are inadequate to the task, according to Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee approved legislation late yesterday to give the Veterans Affairs Department's CIO central authority over the IT budget, personnel and assets in an effort to improve the department's IT management.
A district court judge has directed the Interior Department to disconnect computer systems housing Indian trust data from the Internet, after computer specialists said they had been able to penetrate the systems without detection.
