The performance of all federal programs would have to be addressed at least once every five years under a bill introduced by Rep. Todd R. Platts, R-Pa.
ESRI of Redlands, Calif., last month became the first vendor to sign on to SmartBuy, the federal government's enterprisewide software licensing initiative, following nine months of hard work by the company and federal agencies to create the agreement.
California is facing a $15 billion budget shortfall, and it doesn't have a lot of money to throw at new information technology initiatives. So state CIO Clark Kelso said government agencies will aggressively pursue share-in-savings contracts with their vendors.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has established a Chem-Bio Defense Technology Center to develop next-generation technologies to build on the company's Biohazard Detection System, being installed in Postal Service facilities nationwide.
Voice over IP technology took a step toward acceptance for military applications when the Defense Department certified that solutions from Avaya Inc. met security requirements.
Northrop Grumman Corp. and Information Builders Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to provide national security solutions to federal, state and local government agencies.
Defense Department operations and maintenance budgets will continue to grow at a rate of 6 percent per year through fiscal 2009, said an industry trade group.
Telecommunications firms have asked the GSA to alter the way it structures a new, $10 billion contract for telecommunications and networking products and services.
In a blow to Oracle Corp.'s hostile attempt to take over software rival PeopleSoft, the federal government sued to block the $9.4 billion deal today.<br>
High-value federal information technology and command and control contract awards totaled just $6.7 billion in January 2004, a decline from a year earlier.
Science Applications International Corp. wants you to know it has built a tent so big that the company hopes to fit 2,500 vendors?including competing systems integrators ? inside.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has teamed with Siemens Dematic Postal Automation LP to compete in the Postal Service's Flats Sequencing System/Delivery Point Packaging program.
