Good times ahead? By 2008, state e-government spending will likely double over 2004 levels, according to a new report by Reston, Va., market research firm Input Inc.
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service will combine its service development and service delivery offices into a single Office of Global Network Solutions in two to three months, said John Johnson, assistant commissioner for service delivery at FTS.
The Agriculture Department's National Financial Center is looking for a vendor to provide support services for implementing Extensible Markup Language publishing extensions to its electronic publishing system.
It was at least six years ago that Ken Buck of the General Services Administration began touting the virtues of share-in-savings contracting as a tool for federal IT acquisitions. The concept has been popular among the states, allowing governments to build systems with little upfront expense. The contractors get paid from the money saved or from new revenue generated once the new system is in place.
In the past 18 months, Microsoft has overhauled its public-sector group, added government experts and begun working with systems integrators to win contracts.
No schedule or multiple-award contract has ever been dedicated to share in savings ? until now. The General Services Administration last month awarded blanket purchase agreements to six companies to sell share-in-savings information technology projects to 19 federal agencies.
Despite the growing trend to pronounce the "Voice over Internet Protocol" acronym as a nasally "voip," purists still prefer to enunciate the letters V-O-I-P when they abbreviate the emerging technology.
Opponents of open source software applauded a recent OMB memo that they claim puts proprietary software on competitive footing with open source software in federal procurements.
The federal government July 2 published a proposed rule to authorize governmentwide use of share-in-savings contracts for federal IT projects. A final rule likely will take effect in the last quarter of 2004.
ManTech International Corp., Fairfax, Va., released version 5.0 of its NetWitness wiretap tool. The new version includes better analytical features and increased abilities to monitor voice over IP traffic.
Even as the Defense Department builds a massive information grid often referred to as "network-centric warfare," experts say a new generation of software and sensors is needed to fulfill its promise. In a special report, Washington Technology found integrators and defense leaders struggling over how to make tactical use of the emerging network.
After three consecutive quarters of improvement in business performance, commercial IT spending dropped in June. Dozens of commercial software and hardware companies preannounced weak second-quarter results, blaming customer purchase delays and a lack of large sales.
The Small Business Administration still plans to simplify its small-business size standards despite its recent decision to reassess changes it proposed in March, according to <b>Gary Jackson</b>, assistant administrator for size standards. Thousands of public comments raised significant concerns about the planned changes and led SBA to pull back.
State governments usually aren't aware they are sending IT work offshore because it is done through subcontracts or foreign firms with U.S. addresses, a new study finds.
