High-tech heavyweights are bulking up for new opportunities in homeland security, defense and e-government. At the same time, mergers and acquisitions and new players are reshaping the marketplace.<p>Washington Technology's Top 100, featuring an enhanced <a href="http://www.washingtontechnology.com/top100">online edition</a>, tracks the changes over the past year and examines the outlook for the year ahead.<p>
A major new business opportunity will open up for systems integrators this year if federal officials and state lawmakers decide to let private companies process applications for welfare eligibility.
The Defense Department generally is doing a good job of using commercial best practices for implementing outsourcing programs, but it needs a framework for sharing lessons learned, according to a General Accounting Office report.
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge asked high-tech companies to keep making suggestions about technology solutions for securing the nation's borders and ports.
The Industry Advisory Council and the Federal Government Information Processing Councils today named Joiwind Ronen as the new executive director of both organizations.
Because of commercial interest in developing a telecommunications infrastructure in Iraq, the State Department says a telecom pact will not be among the postwar reconstruction contracts it is awarding.
When Washington Technology published its first Top 100 list of federal IT contractors in 1994, a Democrat was in office, defense budgets were shrinking and the Internet was just emerging as a business tool.
High-tech heavyweights are bulking up for new opportunities in homeland security, defense and e-government. At the same time, mergers and acquisitions and new players, like Michael Solley and MTC Technologies Inc., are reshaping the marketplace. Washington Technology's 2003 Top 100 tracks the changes over the past year and examines the outlook for the year ahead.
Global Computer Enterprises Inc. won a $24 million contract to develop, implement and operate the next-generation of the central repository of statistical information on federal contracting.
In the last six months, the Bush administration has warmed up to many of the provisions in Rep. Tom Davis' Services Acquisition Reform Act, and Davis is moving the bill quickly through the legislative process.
Responding to agency requests, the General Accounting Office has updated its guide on enterprise architectures with expanded metrics to measure how well an agency succeeds in implementation.
Richard Notebaert, chairman and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., has been appointed a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Small businesses that receive a multiple-award schedule or other multiple-award contract will have to annually certify that they continue to meet the size standard for a small business, according to a proposed rule published by the Small Business Administration in the Federal Register April 25.
The Defense Department's documented Financial Management Enterprise Architecture will build on the integration and interoperability the Pentagon has made with other military information systems, an official who helped develop the architecture says.
A proposed change to the fee agencies pay to use the General Services Administration's multiple-award schedules would result in substantial costs and administrative burdens on contractors and agencies, an IT trade association says.
