The FBI will impose financial penalties on its contractors if they miss deadlines for rolling out the Trilogy project to modernize systems agencywide, FBI director Robert S. Mueller III today told a Senate subcommittee.
The House Government Reform Committee plans to hold hearings about the effects of mergers and acquisitions among federal IT contractors, Rep. Tom Davis said today.
The House Government Reform and Small Business committees have negotiated changes to several procurement provisions of legislation that reauthorizes the Small Business Administration.
The SBA has proposed to cut the number of small-business size standards, used in loan programs, contracts set asides and other federal business-development programs.
The General Accounting Office asked Congress to amend the Government Performance and Results Act to require that agencies better use performance measures.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee said the Homeland Security Department is not doing enough to defend the nation's information infrastructure or leverage IT.
Oscar Morales likes to compare the early days of the federal e-rulemaking initiative to early use of online tax filing. The IRS' offering was slow to gain acceptance; now it is a time-saving tool used by millions of people and businesses.
The Defense Department has published amendments to its supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, known as DFAR, as part of its program to transform defense procurements. Most of the changes are marginal, but the department also is moving many regulations out of DFAR and into a procedures, guidance and information manual, or PGI, that won't have the force of law.
Among the honorees for the Best New Technology awards to be given out this week at FOSE 2004 are products that address important government needs, from voice over IP and enterprise architecture initiatives to data security and network performance. These technologies, which solve challenges at a diverse pool of civilian and defense agencies, are the subject of an indepth look in this issue's lead story.
More details on the second version of the Homeland Security Department's enterprise architecture should become known over the next three months, a DHS official said earlier this month.
The General Services Administration this month plans to release a draft request for proposals to upgrade and enhance FedBizOpps, the government's procurement portal.
Government and private-sector executives disagreed today on whether the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have adequate program management, enterprise architecture and data standards to effectively move forward on a project to create common, electronic medical records.
Defense IT giants Lockheed Martin Corp. and Titan Corp. are working to complete a merger that has been delayed by allegations that Titan consultants made improper payments to officials abroad.
Congressman wants assurances that border crossing cards are an acceptable substitute for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator System at the border with Mexico.
EDS Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. filed separate protests this week in their continued battle over the Housing and Urban Development Department's IT Services contract.
