Science Applications International Corp. wants you to know it has built a tent so big that the company hopes to fit 2,500 vendors?including competing systems integrators ? inside.
The Defense Department this week proposed publishing 14 rules in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement that would streamline the acquisition process.
The first enterprise software agreement under the GSA SmartBuy program provides six agencies with deeper volume discounts and gives vendor ESRI guaranteed licenses.
Now that the government's efforts in constructing a physical infrastructure in Iraq are under way, it is moving toward erecting a communications and information architecture in the country.
Commercial spending for research and development has increased substantially in recent years. For every federal dollar invested in this area, business now invests about $2. As a result, the private sector now plays an increasingly important role in developing new technologies and influencing acquisitions for some of the most critical federal programs.
The White House has identified 18 agencies that will not receive funding to upgrade their information technology systems until they fix security problems. "Agencies need to secure what they have," not layer new projects on top of vulnerable IT infrastructures, said <b>Karen Evans</b>, administrator for IT and e-government in the Office of Management and Budget.
<b>Michael Maggio</b> knew his company's wireless security product could be a winner if it caught the interest of a prime contractor in government IT. So the Newbury Networks Inc. president and chief executive officer trumpeted the ability of his company's WiFi Watchdog product to track wireless users. Maggio's marketing signals were picked up by no less than the second largest integrator, Northop Grumman. In a special report, Washington Technology found that Newbury's courting of Northrop Grumman is typical of how large integrators and smaller, specialized cybersecurity companies form partnerships.
After struggling with the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program for the past eight months, the General Services Administration last week finally signed the first agreement with geographic information systems vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute.
The federal government needs to take four steps to dramatically speed and improve the security clearance process, a coalition of technology trade groups said today.
EDS Corp. will suspend new transition work on the $860 million HUD Information Technology Services contract following court-ordered negotiations with incumbent Lockheed Martin Corp.
A House committee chairman wants to know how the Education Department determines a school's eligibility for federal financial aid, and if those standards might be of use to sift out degrees from unaccredited schools.
It is impossible to eliminate attacks such as the recent MyDoom worm and others, but the government has taken significant steps to keep federal systems safe, the head of cybersecurity at the Homeland Security Department says.
The Share-in-Savings Program Office at the General Services Administration has developed two tools to evaluate projects for use with share-in-savings contracting, said Ken Buck, director of the office.
Share-in-savings contracts are appropriate for several types of IT work, industry and government officials said, including system or infrastructure consolidation and revenue collection.
