The benefits of document management software are well known: It improves workflow, increases productivity and enhances collaboration inside government agencies. Where system integrators can add value is in extending document management beyond an agency's walls to include other agencies or outside contractors.
Last summer, the federal court of appeals ruled that vendor line item prices and a contractor's option-year pricing were confidential information and that they could be withheld under the Freedom of Information Act, because their release was likely to cause substantial harm to a contractor's competitive position.
The Federal Technology Service isn't going to lose its best customer after all. Two provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2005 that would limit how the Defense Department buys goods and services from General Services Administration contracts were eliminated from the final legislation.
When Dawn Meyerriecks, then chief technology officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency, was briefing industry executives last summer on DISA's Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative, she warned them that the Defense Department didn't want contractors to offer competing standards when proposing solutions.
Two contractors each won five-year, $49 million contracts to support manufacturing and technology programs at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
SI International Inc. won a one-year $2.4 million task order from the Army Research Lab to develop the Army Research Laboratory Database, a financial information system to manage research projects for the Defense Department.
Titan Corp. won a five-year, $169.9 million contract from the North American Aerospace Defense Command/U.S. Northern Command for information technology and infrastructure support for the organization's command, control and communications directorate.
Four companies will compete for $610 million worth of advisory and assistance services and engineering and technical assistance work from the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will supply personnel and equipment to handle voice, video and data communications services in the United State and overseas for the Defense Department's Central Command.
Saflink Corp. has won $700,000 in orders from the Defense Department to provide ovide hardware, software and support orders for the Defense Message System.
BAE Systems plc won a five-year contract from the Army to build 484 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures and Common Missile Warning Systems that provide missile warning and directable jamming capabilities to defend aircraft.
U.S. elections have always been controversial, especially when it comes to deciding who gets to vote and how votes are counted, said Larry Bird, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Neither presidential candidate has staked out distinct, compelling positions on the technology issues that matter most to industry, said analysts monitoring the race.
Federal IT contractors are overwhelmingly supporting President Bush and other Republican candidates with their campaign contributions. That's the most obvious conclusion from our exclusive pre-election report, "The Money Trail." Analyzing data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Washington Technology tracks where the Top 100 federal IT contractors are putting their political capital.
