The Health and Human Services Department has formed agreements with two organizations that will plan for and promote the widespread use of electronic health records in the Gulf Coast region as it rebuilds after recent hurricanes.
An opportunity for yet another cottage industry has emerged in the federal ecosystem. It's called blowing the whistle on competitors with noncompliant contracts, and it pays well.
IT industry leaders see improvements in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan released earlier this month, but they remain worried that they may be left out of the loop in the Homeland Security Department's policies and actions for IT sector security.
The Treasury Department has tapped 21 companies to develop new software applications, provide support and introduce technologies under a five-year, $3 billion deal.
The Army needs a local telephone-exchange services provider for Fort Gordon, Ga,; the Air Force is looking for software tools to help analyze data collected from various survey instruments distributed to personnel throughout the service; and The U.S. Geological Survey requires technical support services for the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, La.
When Red Hat Inc.'s Tom Rabon was in Malaysia recently, talking with government officials about open-source technology, he was surprised by one of the first questions he was asked by the media there: What's going on with Massachusetts' state government's decision to adopt the OpenDocument format?
Four teams led by Accenture Ltd., Computer Sciences Corp., IBM Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. won contracts totaling $18.6 million from the Health and Human Services Department to develop prototypes for a nationwide health information network architecture.
Four teams led by Accenture Ltd., Computer Sciences Corp., IBM Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. won contracts totaling $18.6 million from the Health and Human Services Department to develop prototypes for a nationwide health information network architecture.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas sold its $200 million-a-year welfare-to-workforce services to Arbor E&T LLC for an undisclosed sum in a deal expected to close in January.
Of the 12 functional areas federal CIOs are responsible for, their private-sector counterparts share eight, including systems acquisition and information security, according to the Government Accountability Office.
ManTech International Corp. won several new contracts and recompetes worth more than $125 million from federal agencies for national security programs.
A new ground-combat training range capable of training units in action against each other in South Korea is the result of a collaboration between U.S.-based Cubic Corp. and four Korean firms.
