Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement worth $30 million over three years to continue providing e-commerce services to the Defense Department.
When terrorists flew a jet into the 90th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, Gregory Burnham, who was in his office on the 71st floor, had one main focus: get out with his staff and let his family know he was OK.
Disappointment. That describes what most of the information technology industry is feeling regarding state and local homeland security spending. Companies are discouraged with the amount of money spent on homeland security, the lack of opportunities in their sales pipelines and the relatively small size of the projects that have been launched.
What has changed since Sept. 11, 2001? There are the obvious answers: federal employees in airport screening lines, memorable declines in market capitalization of public companies, demise of the worst of the dot-com hucksters and the most widespread attack by government lawyers on federal civil rights in more than half a century.
Just two weeks before Sept. 11, a team of employees from SRA International Inc. handed over control to the Navy of a command center the team had built.
Sept. 11, 2001 - 8:46 a.m. American Flight 11 hits the north tower of World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. - United Flight 175 hits the south tower. 9:38 a.m. - American Flight 77 hits the Pentagon.
The Pentagon fires were still burning when Tom Buonforte and his team at General Dynamics Network Systems began sifting through the rubble, trying to figure out how they would rebuild the computer and telecommunications networks in the damaged wing.
In June, the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva set the equipment standard for metropolitan-sized optical networks, those networks less than 31 miles long.
The Homeland Security Act (H.R. 5005) passed by the House in July is a massive piece of legislation that not only will restructure the government, it will reshape dealings between government and the private sector on a variety of security-related issues.
Vance Coffman, chief executive officer and chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp., has been named chairman of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Four companies ? B2E Markets Inc., Computer Information Specialist Inc., Orbis Online Inc. and NB Ventures Global eProcure ? have won a General Services Administration contract to conduct online reverse auctions for federal agencies.
News of a corporate scandal,like the accounting troubles recently disclosed by companies such as Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., can significantly affect a company's business in the federal as well as commercial marketplace.
<FONT SIZE=2>General Dynamics Corp.'s aggressive moves to position itself as an information technology provider to the Defense Department are well known. But the company also has been quietly working to win more business with civilian agencies, especially by leveraging its engineering and network talents developed for defense customers.</FONT>
The Office of Management and Budget's e-government management team met July 16 met with the Washington Technology and Government Computer News editorial staffs to discuss the administration's e-gov progress and what the future holds. Participating OMB staff members included Mark Forman, associate director of OMB for information technology and e-government.
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service Aug. 8 officially launched its revamped request-for-quotes tool, called e-Buy. Officials said the tool will increase competition by ensuring larger numbers of vendors have access to requests for quotes published by government buyers.
Federal officials hope to dramatically boost the number of tax returns filed electronically through a new e-filing partnership with industry that would provide free online tax filing to a majority of Americans.
Government officials are optimistic Congress will approve the president's request for a $45 million e-government fund in the fiscal 2003 budget this fall.
The administration's e-government strategy got a strong endorsement from the Senate last month, when the chamber approved a comprehensive e-government bill.
