John Negroponte is leaving his post at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and moving to the State Department as the deputy secretary to Condoleeza Rice. Retired Navy Vice Adm. J. Michael McConnell is taking over for him at ODNI.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>Three bidders have filed documents to recoup costs incurred from the Treasury Department's Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, a cancelled billion-dollar project.
Digital Angel Corp. will supply the Army Corps of Engineers with passive integrated transponder technology for fish monitoring through a new $10 million contract.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency improved its computer systems in 2006, but still has no strategic plan to guide long-term IT investments, according to a new audit.
The Homeland Security Department report card rating cities' progress on achieving interoperable emergency communications has been cited as a guide to further work in the field to plug gaps.
The Western States Contracting Alliance has renewed a contract with Cingular Wireless LLC that the company expects will generate $2 billion in revenue over four years.
GTSI Corp. will supply workstation, desktop and laptop solutions that promote standardization and interoperability at the Justice Department's various offices.
Most maritime workers will pay at least $139 for their initial Transportation Workers Identification Credential card and $60 for a replacement card as part of the Homeland Security Department's just-released final rule for the program.
The Homeland Security Department is setting up a new records system to keep track of the names, passwords, citizenship information and other data on thousands of IT workers with access to the department's systems.
The Defense Department organization in charge of transportation has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman Corp. to establish supply chain management solutions.
The Transportation Security Administration has approved two more companies as providers of the Registered Traveler program designed to speed enrolled travelers through airports nationwide.
Now that it has received presidential approval, the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program has kicked off its study on the feasibility of building more energy-efficient servers.
Enterprise system development services are being sought by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of its new approach for acquiring, delivering and managing IT.
In an effort to prepare for possible chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive incidents the Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded a contract to Science Applications International Corp. to work with existing modeling and simulation tools.
In the government market, 2006 was a year marked by change and opportunity. Looking back it is hard to pick one event or even a handful that should be tagged as "Stories of the Year," but what is clear is that a wide range of topics captured the market's attention.
Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Air Force to conduct a system design review for the next-generation NAVSTAR Global Positioning System space segment program.
With the Dec. 23 death of Al Picarelli, the government IT market has lost one its leaders and a person many call one of the true good guys of the industry.
Accela Inc. will partner with Nortel on its municipal wireless solution, a suite of wireless network technologies, applications and services to help cities bring broadband services to their field staff and citizens.
