IT market research firm Input Inc. has hired former government IT executive Alan Balutis as president and chief executive officer of its strategies unit.
Thales e-Security Inc. is finishing work on an encryption appliance to secure legacy process control systems that regulate much of the nation's critical infrastructure.
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and State likely will hold hearings Feb. 3 on the FBI's Virtual Case File project, a troubled $170 million project that the Justice Department's IG called a failure.
SI International Inc. plans to spend $75 million to buy Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence Inc., a Harrisonburg, Va., company with strong ties to the Homeland Security Department.
The National Park Service is looking for an electronic incident management, analysis and reporting system for law enforcement, emergency management and security activities. The system will manage information about incidents related to facilities, including prisons, roads, rivers, dams, deserts, mountains and archeological sites. Incidents may include law enforcement, search and rescue, emergency management services, wild and structural fires and resource observations.
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency seeks vendors to provide technical assistance to the Kenya Revenue Authority for a computerized integrated tax system.
The Air Force Special Operations Command wants information about commercial equipment for its Man Portable Air Defense training system. The system will incorporate missile warning system simulation and visual cueing.
The government last month unveiled a new plan that calls for overhauling the nation's air transportation system in anticipation of dramatically increasing demand for air space.
Erstwhile top-level Government Accountability Office analyst David McClure has joined Gartner Inc. as research director of the IT consultancy's Global Public Sector research group.
A North Carolina judge this month sided with EDS Corp. in its protest of a five-year, $171 million Medicaid IT refresh contract won in April by Affiliated Computer Services Inc.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a broad agency announcement seeking research, development, design and testing proposals to be undertaken by the agency's Advanced Technology Office.
Michael Chertoff, the appeals court judge nominated by President Bush to become Homeland Security Department secretary, was an early advocate of using data mining to pinpoint terrorists.
A post on GSA's FedBizOpps Web site puts agencies on notice that a deal is imminent to sign Oracle to a governmentwide enterprise license deal under the SmartBuy program.
The U.S. Forest Service will heed the Government Accountability Office's suggestions and reopen discussions with the three final vendors to provide a consolidated reservation system for all of the nation's parks under the Recreation One-Stop e-government initiative.
