GSA seeks enterprisewide management of IT assets

The General Services Administration has released a highly anticipated draft solicitation for small businesses to help the agency streamline and support its IT infrastructure across the agency.

Doan wants overhaul of governmentwide acquisition contracting

General Services Administration administrator Lurita Doan is working toward having all commodity IT buys facilitated through her agency, in order to achieve volume discounts in federal procurements.

TechTeam gets HHS financial management deal

TechTeam Government Solutions Inc. won a five-year contract from the Health and Human Services Department to deliver application support for its payment management system.

SRA wins pair of military IT support deals

SRA International Inc. won task orders from the Army National Guard and Defense Department that could be worth more than $200 million.

BBN Technologies snares DARPA research deal

BBN Technologies won a new round of funding to continue building a system to send and receive data reliably, even when stable end-to-end paths do not exist.

ICF to start up Air Force combat training program

ICF International Inc. won a five-year, $8 million contract to deliver training support services for Air Force officers at the Expeditionary Operations School.

House extends SBA programs

The House voted Tuesday to extend the Small Business Administration's programs until Feb. 2, 2007, giving Congress more time to complete a review and reauthorization of the agency.

Border credential requirements, IT programs are considerations in spending plan

House and Senate conferees recently cleared a fiscal 2007 Homeland Security Department spending bill that would increase discretionary spending to $34.8 billion, an increase of $2.7 billion over the administration's request.

Transparency in health IT pursued by HHS

In an effort to make health care quality and prices more transparent, HHS is seeking the help of physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, employers and consumers for a new health IT initiative.

SBI-Net award: Now what?

Boeing Co. has won the high profile and lucrative Secure Border Initiative Network contract from the Homeland Security Department. But that's just the first step for Boeing and its team on a long road to securing U.S. borders.

Enterprise systems design affected by Web 2.0

The ease with which consumers routinely network and share content over the Internet-and the emergence of new companies enabling them-are forcing business and government executives to rethink development plans for their own enterprise systems.

Feds getting comfortable with SOA

Federal agency program managers and other IT professionals are becoming well-acquainted with the concept of service-oriented architecture, according to a new report.

GSA reorg bill clears Congress, awaits president's signature

The General Services Administration's long-awaited reorganization is just the president's signature away from being complete.

Quantum Research wins $449M Army missile deal

Quantum Research International Inc. will support the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command under a contract that could be worth more than $449 million over 10 years.

Raytheon nabs Army data communications integration deal

Raytheon Co. won a five-year, $48 million contract from the Army to standardize and integrate its communications systems.

Integic wins OPM pact for final piece of retirement project

Integic of Chantilly, Va., was awarded a contract from the Office of Personnel Management for the last piece of OPM's long-awaited Retirement Systems Modernization (RSM) project to digitize federal employee retirement records.

NIH agency extends software pact

Aquilent Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract from the National Library of Medicine for continued software support services to NLM's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication.

Corporations embrace tax e-filing

More than 12,500 of the nation's largest corporations have electronically filed their 2005 corporate tax returns, the IRS said.

Navy taps Teradata for data center support

The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded a 12-month recompete contract to Teradata, a division of NCR Government Systems LLC, for support services to a naval logistics data center.

Mendler rises to become Alion COO

Stacy Mendler will take the reins as chief operating officer, overseeing day-to-day operations.