The Homeland Security Department is looking for ideas on how to launch a major enterprise-level Identity Management Project for its 180,000 employees, as well as for state, local and federal contractors and officials.
The contracts represent roughly $1.4 billion in combined procurements and include the Army Knowledge Online enterprise portal and a consolidated approach for the service's financial-management systems.
VeriSign Inc. said it has been approved by the Defense Department to issue digital certificates required for anyone who wants access to protected government Web sites and applications.
Cree Inc. won a contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop high-power electronic devices and power modules to reduce the size and weight of power management equipment aboard Navy vessels.
The Defense Information Systems Agency today issued a request for proposals for the $300 million, Joint Hawaii Information Transfer Service contract for telecommunications services.
CACI International Inc. won a three-year, $73 million prime contract to provide program management and technical services to support the Naval Aviation Enterprise and the Naval Aviation Readiness Integrated Improvement Program.
Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said Army IT budgetary dollars in 2006 would be closely linked to how well a program's requirements are defined and whether the program is being built to service the whole enterprise.
Science Applications International Corp. is considering changing its long-standing tradition of employee ownership and sponsoring an initial public offering to raise cash for acquisitions.
Four companies will share an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering and technical services to the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.
Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems was awarded the Common Link Integration Processing contract to develop common software and common-link processing for a joint Navy-Air Force program.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission hinted that the agency might have to reorganize to better address the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Secretary Mike Leavitt said an Rx drug adverse-event reporting system could be one of the first projects that a federal advisory group might take on as part of an initiative to build a national health information exchange.
A group of emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.
The request for proposal for the 10-year, $65 billion Alliant contracts for governmentwide information technology services will be issued in August, according the General Services Administration's assistant commissioner for commercial acquisitions at the agency's Federal Supply Service.
NEC Solutions America Inc. has entered into a partnership with Tropos Networks Inc. to provide wireless mobile data systems to police, fire and emergency medical personnel.
The Health and Human Services Department has released requests for proposals that it hopes will pave the way toward developing a national health information network infrastructure that supports the exchange of electronic health records.
