As agencies put into place the first blueprints of their IT environments, systems integrators and other contractors face the question of what happens next. Agencies will need help creating more detailed versions of their architectures. SAIC, for example, is already helping DHS with a second version of its plan. But the importance of this work goes well beyond the creation of an enterprise architecture. Contractors now must focus on winning the follow-up -- and possibly more lucrative -- work of implementing enterprise architectures.
Northrop Grumman Corp.'s team for the Air Force's $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program includes other large integrators such as Computer Sciences Corp., Science Applications International Corp. and BearingPoint Inc.
Robert Stevens was appointed president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corp., as Vance Coffman retires. Coffman will stay on as chairman until April 2005.
The federal government's spending on information technology will slow down over the next five years, but the impact on IT contractors will be minimal, according to London market research firm Datamonitor plc.
Robert Webber joined DynTek Inc. as the Irvine, Calif., company's chief financial officer. The company cited his experience in strategic planning in the IT sector as a good fit for its mergers and acquisitions strategy.
Before February, the U.S. Agency for International Development's network was scanned for vulnerabilities monthly, after which its systems administrators in 80 nations were sent reports about the vulnerabilities that were found.
David Savafian, administrator-select for Federal Procurement Policy, has committed to making the federal acquisition workforce a top priority. This is music to the ears of those of us who have been concerned about a diminished degree of top-level administration attention to this critical community.
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service will combine its service development and service delivery offices into a single Office of Global Network Solutions in two to three months, said John Johnson, assistant commissioner for service delivery at FTS.
The General Services Administration will wait until December to release its draft request for proposals for the $10 billion Networx telecommunications and network services contract ? a delay of three months.
When city officials in the nation's capital decided to build an interoperable wireless network for first responders, they adopted an approach that had barely been tested commercially, much less in government.
