The New York Mental Health Office wants a contractor to furnish software to support patient trust funds and related cash, holding and advanced accounting systems.
"Ethics takes a lot of different skills," said Maryanne Lavan, vice president for ethics and business conduct at Lockheed Martin Corp. since December 2003.
When any of the 12 bureaus that make up the Commerce Department need to order PCs or services such as programming, chances are their procurement officers will use the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service's IT Schedule 70.
Alan Rosenberg, Global Crossing's vice president of partnership development, and his U.S. federal team are focused on four areas to position Global Crossing for more government business, and ultimately to win more prime contracts.
More than two years after issuing its interim rules implementing liability protections for contractors under the Safety Act, the Homeland Security Department June 8 issued its final rule.
In their Secure Border Initiative proposal, Ericsson Inc. officials are touting their experience operating a wireless sensor and camera surveillance system they built along the 200-kilometer border of Norway and Russia.
To further a spirit of cooperation, agencies also are beginning to share information from disparate databases by sending some of that data to common data warehouses, where it can be merged, queried and analyzed.
Humming away in a corner of most offices is a relic invented 163 years ago: the fax machine. Its relatively archaic core technology is a big part of why it remains relevant today.
Whether it's a hurricane, forest fire, terrorist attack or other disaster, telecom companies have assembled the hardware, plans and people to get communications networks back online within days or hours.
Critical Links, a U.S. subsidiary of Portuguese developer Critical Software S.A., has released its edgeBox multifunction network gateway, which provides converged voice and data networks for small and midsize enterprises.
The story of the Da Vinci Code starts with a mysterious series of numbers: 13, 3, 2, 21, 1, 1, 8 and 5. The same numbers apply to the often perplexing and mysterious workings of government contracting.
A year ago, an IT critical infrastructure list circulating in Washington included the headquarters of Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Today, the list is more likely to include virtual assets such as networks that carry data to and from major power plants, government offices and Wall Street.
Representatives from systems integrators and federal agencies discussed how the government IT acquisition process has changed over the years, and how key players in the relationship have adapted at Washington Technology's "Lessons of the Top 100 Conference" June 14 in McLean, Va.
